The eighth Santa Fun Run organised by the Friends of Telford Town Park took place on Sunday 7 December in the Town Park raising money for the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) and Guide Dogs UK.
The 2014 event attracted 166 runners, joggers and walkers on the day all festively dressed as Father Christmas. 105 people completed the 5k course and 61 the 2k. There were even some dogs dressed up for the occasion! The Friends once again linked up with the volunteers from Park Run Telford, who marshalled a 5km route adding to the existing 2km route and for the first time both routes included the newly created Southwater Lake.
The run got underway at 11am outside the Park’s Visitor Centre following a warm up with local aerobics instructor, Jo Burt. The Mayor and Mayoress of the Borough of Telford and Wrekin, Cllr Malcolm Smith and Mrs Christine Smith presented everyone with medals as they returned to the Visitor Centre and hot fruit punch and warm mince pies were enjoyed by everyone who took part.
The raffle was drawn once everyone had returned with prizes from the various businesses and restaurants in the Park and around Southwater Lake. Our thanks go to The Cycle Centre, The Wrekin Giant, Costa Coffee, Nando’s, Telford Ice Rink, Cineworld and the Town Park for their generous donation of prizes.
The Friends would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the volunteers from the Friends and Telford Park Run, Jo Burt, DJ Karl Bithell, the Mayor and Mayoress and the Town Park Rangers who helped us to deliver such a wonderful event and of course all of the people who took part raising much needed funds for both the RNIB and Guide Dogs UK.
Sponsor Money
Many people brought their sponsor money to the event yesterday raising almost £1000. We would like to beat the total raised last year of £2,000 and would ask people to continue raising funds after the event and sending money raised into us.
You can pay in your sponsor money through Paypal by specifying the destination for your payment as fottp12@gmail.co. Or if you send an email to fottp12@gmail.com stating the exact amount of the sponsorship money, we will issue a Paypal invoice.
Alternatively you can take your cash or cheque made payable to ‘FOTTP Santa Fun Run’ in a sealed envelope clearly labelled SANTA FUN RUN to the Park Visitor Centre
Further pictures of the runners can be found here
| Park Run is a 5km timed run in Telford Town which starts at 9am on Saturday mornings. For further details visit www.parkrun.org.uk/telford. |
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