everyone brought their own sunshine to junior parkrun to brighten up a grey rainy morning! Claire, Maurice and Karen helped put on this fabulous event for 126 juniors and their grown ups. Claire was a marshal cheering people on around the course and keeping people safe; Maurice was timekeeper recording every pair of little legs crossing the finish line, and Karen was Run Director, doing event set up, welcoming volunteers, a briefing, and processing results at the end.

a lovely morning for a bit of parkrun volunteering! Nicola and Karen did the course check and course set up before Karen did the event briefing before the runners and walkers set off for their 5k around the park. Nicola did a fabulous job of number checker / funnel manager, making the result processing a doddle for Karen. While Karen and Nicola were packing everything away ready for next week's parkrun, Emily and Maurice were doing their favourite job of sorting the tokens back into order and replacing missing tokens, all ready to go again next week. 362 people took part - what a fabulous thing to be part of!

Maurice, Mark and Nicola spent a lovely evening out in the summer Sun doing what we do best - collecting litter!

Our night was spent around the King George’s playing field and main road area near the rising Sun. We were pleasantly surprised by how little litter there was, but we still managed to collect three decent bags full.

The best part about being out and doing these tasks is the lovely company. We had a good natter and put the world to rights as usual.

Awesome job the 3 Amigos!

Until next time!

Nicola xx

Maurice was the stalwart GoodGymmer as ever as he provided support to the junior parkrun team this week. With numbers increasing at junior parkrun (which is fabulous! More children and families being active!), Maurice's role was to marshal at the turnaround cone to warn about trips and falls, and then on to Funnel Manager, keeping the children in order and making sure the timekeepers and tokens stayed in sync.

122 juniors took part this week, another brilliant attendance! And well done Maurice!

It was the perfect weather for a summer litter pick!! Karen, Marjo, Mark, Maurice, Rachel and Nicola collected a whopping 12 bags of rubbish from the streets around the Tesco/Dunelm area.

It's always rewarding to get a good haul of rubbish but it would be nice if the streets didn't need it!

The hi-light of the evening was definitely the drinks and snacks afterwards in Hops Bar. It's always lovely to catch up with friends.

See you at the next one! Nicola xx

Wow! what a morning at junior parkrun! 183 juniors took part, it was SO busy! Kat was tailwalker this week with her son who is doing his silver Duke of Edinburgh award; Karen was funnel manager trying to keep done order amongst all the chaos; Maurice did a sterling job of bring timekeeper, and Claire and Nigel were marshals on the course.

Thank you and well done everyone!