Durham City Harriers & Athletics Club

06/10/2026

We were very proud to receive the "Unsung Project of the year" award at the North East Regional Volunteer ceremony hosted by England Athletics recently. We are extremely honoured and privileged to be recognised in this way, and will continue to work as hard as we can to provide the very best service to each and every one of our amazing junior athletes

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04/10/2026

Another great day for DCH, this time at the Kielder run festival. Cracking turnout for the orange army 💪🍊🧡

03/10/2026

The club were honoured and privileged to be awarded the "Unsung project of the year" trophy in recognition of the work we have done to develop our junior section over the last year.

Nothing gives us more pleasure than to provide our juniors with the opportunity to train and compete in the wonderful sport of athletics. Our ethos is based around enabling children to "have a go", and to be "the best they can be". It's not about who crosses the line first - It's having fun, trying your best, building friendships, and progressing in a way that is right for you 🧡

03/10/2026

Junior presentation event fun from a couple of weeks ago!! Our fabulous juniors getting the recognition they deserve for another year of outstanding effort, commitment, attitude and performance 👏 🙌 🧡

03/10/2026

The orange army was out in force last Saturday at the North East Harrier League Thornley Farm cross country race. Great results from the Under 12 age group right through to the senior men and women 💪🧡

03/10/2026

Huge well done to Bryan Mackay on being awarded the services to athletics award for his lifetime of competing and then coaching with the club (in excess of 50 years!!)

Bryan did a huge amount of coaching of the middle distance / distance and student XC groups for many many years.

The newer people of the club will know him from being the namesake of the Mackay mile race in May every year (an event he still does his best to attend every year)

It’s great he received this recognition given a lot of the coaches around stepped back in late 2019/ 2020 during the covid pandemic and didn’t really get the send off they deserved.

Big well done to Bryan and the huge impact he made to many athletes lives

20/09/2026

PERFORMANCE GROUP!

We have lots of different training groups in Durham City Harriers. Couch to 5k, a transition group for after C25K, a senior endurance group, and a cross country group.

However, did you know that we have a "Performance Group", which is for those male and female athletes in the club looking to build further on their running, to compete at the "top table"!! 🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️

Typically the runners in this group complete a 5k in around 20 minutes (some well under!), but there are also some recent new members who are getting close to that standard and want to push on. We've seen great results so far, and so we are looking to expand the group.

If this sounds like it might be for you, dont hesitate to contact us on [email protected] and we can tell you more.

We offer up to 3 free taster sessions with no obligation to join, so you literally have nothing to lose!!

The futures bright, the futures orange! 🍊

19/09/2026

What a wonderful morning at Durham parkrun today. We had a cake bake sale in aid of Breast Cancer Now in memory of our member Gill. Thank you to everyone who contributed and donated to this brilliant cause - We raised a fantastic £524 thanks to the generosity of the parkrun community. 🧡

We also provided pacing for every minute from 19 to 35 mins and several members volunteered to marshall en route (special thanks to one of our juniors Freddie, who saved the day by stepping up to timekeep at the last minute to make the run viable!). Hope this helped a few people achieve and beat the times they were aiming for 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️

Great work everyone! 🍊

Matt Gwilym
DCH Chairman

19/09/2026

"Im too old to run for a running club" ❌️
The 50+ age group accounts for almost half of our overall membership

"There won't be many other women there"
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Almost half of our members (and coaches) are female

"Im not sure ill fit in"
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We love having a diverse population of members, and celebrate everybody's difference

Diversity matters at Durham City Harriers

18/09/2026

What a great time we had at the Great North Run last weekend. Brilliant club representation, and a series of fantastic performances