Beacon parkrun

😱We’re currently 7 roles away from being able to go ahead on Saturday 😱

Can you fill one of them?

🌟Pre event set up
🌟Funnel manager
🌟Finish tokens
🌟Finish token support
🌟Barcode scanner - available from the start please
🌟Number checker
🌟Tail walker

All of the roles are really straight forward and we can show you what to do. If you can help, please email or comment with your parkrun ID and preferred role.

Thanks

Thank you to everyone who has already stepped up - can you join them in any of the following?

- Pre event setup
- Funnel Managing
- Bar code scanning
- Finish Tokens
- Finish Token Support
- Number Checker
- Marshalls
- Tail Walkers
- Post event closedown

Please comment or email including your parkrun ID if you can help

Thanks

📢Core Team Request!📢

Would you like to look as cheerful as Henry does in this photo? Would you like to join our core team? Well we would love to hear from you!

We are looking for a few extra Run Directors as part of our team, due to some family commitments coming up over the next few months we would love to make our team a bit bigger. We certainly wouldn't be asking for parkrun to take over your life but it would just mean helping out every so often. As an RD you will get training and we will make sure you are feeling comfortable to be a Beacon Parkrun RD.

Interested? Please feel free to pop us an email to [email protected] and we can answer any questions you might have.

Thanks again!

Well that was a most enjoyable way to start the weekend!

Well done to all 418 of you who joined us this morning for Beacon parkrun number 251.

Congratulations to the 15 of you who finished your first ever parkrun - hope to see you again soon.

We welcomed tourists from Walsall (not Warsaw) and Worcester with 58 runners running at Beacon for the first time.

No one owned up to any milestones but a few of you hit them (official and unofficial) so well done to 👏:
300 - George
150 - Shawn
50 - Oliver & Peter
25 - Louis, Kelly, Katie & Becky

A massive thank you to the 39 superstars who made it all happen. As I said at the start things were looking a bit dicey but you really stepped up. Thanks to everyone who came forward at the end to offer to help tomorrow too - I’ll see you there!

Please, please do think about whether you can volunteer - it’s a lot of fun and really rewarding - you might end up with the 📣 one day. It can be hard to fill the roster in the summer so please do shout out of you can help (and you don’t have to wait until the last minute 😉).

Thanks again all - I’m off to do some DIY and some parkrun touristing next week when Jane is on RD duty!

Have a great rest of the weekend.

Henry (RD 01.08.2026)

The roster is sorted - thank you

It’s holiday season and the next few weeks also have lots of roster gaps. Please look ahead and if you can volunteer one week we’d be really grateful

See you all tomorrow

‼️🚨We are still short for tomorrow and will review the roster at 3pm today 🚨‼️

To go ahead we need the following roles covered:

🦺 Finish Token Support - helping to hand out the finish tokens

🦺 Number checker - asking a few runners their watch time and position which will help Henry do the results

🦺 Barcode scanners - scanning barcodes and finish tokens

We really want to be able to go ahead but we need your help to make that happen.

If you can help, please let us know the role and your parkrun ID so we can fill in the roster by 3pm

*** edited to show remaining roles***

Thank you to everyone who has offered to help on Saturday.

We remain short of the numbers we need to go ahead, so can you help with the following?

➡️ 3 barcode scanners
➡️ 1 finish token support
➡️ 1 number checker

2 course set up (sorted)
1 timekeeper (sorted)
1 funnel manager (sorted)
2 marshalls (sorted)

If you can help, please email or comment with your role and parkrun ID

Thanks

Looking ahead to Saturday, we have a very empty looking roster, so can you help us fill it?

We need:

- Course check - completed by 8am (sorted)
- Set up - starts just after 8am
- First Timer's briefing (sorted)
- Timekeeper
- Barcode scanners
- Finish Token support
- Number Checker
- Funnel Manager
- lots of marshalls

If you can help, please comment or email with your preferred role and park run ID

Many thanks

Have you ever wondered how you can get a run credit and a volunteer credit at the same Beacon Parkrun ….. how about becoming one of our guide runners for our regular visually impaired runners?

We have a core group but we are always keen to bring others on board. All you need to be in a good communicator and be able to run faster than the VI runners ( sub 35/sub 40). We have another runner who is visually impaired who will also be looking for a guide later in the year, her guide needs to be sub 50.

There is not a huge commitment, you just volunteer when you fancy.

We are happy for you to tag along one week to see what it’s about, or you can just go for it!

We asked Hazel what she gets from guiding our VI runners

“ If you’ve ever thought about guiding a visually impaired runner at parkrun, I’d really encourage you to give it a go. Sarah and Aletea are both lovely, great company, and guiding takes far less than you might think. It’s incredibly rewarding to help someone achieve their goals while doing parkrun from a whole new perspective.”

Dave has shared his experience too

“Helping out as a VI guide has been a pleasure - the two runners are lovely to chat to while going round the course and it's been great to be able to help them take part in parkrun regularly”

So if you think you’d like to find out a bit more please reply to this post or email [email protected]

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