A fantastic morning of celebrations at Selby parkrun today as the event marked its 7th birthday! It was a day filled with personal triumphs, milestones, and the heartwarming return of a familiar face.
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Running on Empty? Free Software Could Be a Game Changer for Your Athletics Club with Charitable Status
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Like many community sports clubs, especially those with charitable status, Vale of York Athletic Community relies heavily on the dedicated efforts of our volunteers. Running a thriving and safe athletics club takes a lot of behind-the-scenes work. Handling memberships, organising training sessions and events, keeping our website updated and planning for our own permanent track and field facilities takes a lot of time and effort. All this work has to be done while keeping costs down so that we can be as accessible as possible to everyone in the Vale of York.
On a recent club visit, in his role as England Athletics Regional chair for Yorkshire and Humberside, our founder, Ian Martin, recently had a discussion with a fellow Club Chair about the range of free software and services to which UK charities are entitled. We wanted to share details of some of this software, and what it can be used for, specifically from the perspective of an athletics club like ours.
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Vale of York trustee, Neil Musgrove, loves a hilly trail run and Leeds has more hills than Selby with some spectacular scenery to boot. Last month Neil took on the 7 mile Calverley Chaos organised by Great Owl Running.
The event really was chaos because the runners were set off in alternating directions according to their race number which provided an opportunity to say hello and well done to all the runners taking the opposite direction about half way round. After some decent climbs in the first half, the second was quite fast and Neil passed a few people in the last few miles to finish second in his direction and sixth overall.
A well earned beer from Kirkstall Brewery for all finishers ensured a nice end to the day.
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Shot put safety Safety is of the utmost importance when coaching any of the throwing events. Children must be drilled from an early age to throw and collect only on instruction from a coach. Always instruct athletes to collect all throwing implements once everyone has thrown. Never allow anyone to collect whilst others are throwing […]
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A look back on some of Vale of York’s highlights from 2022 including our award of England Athletics Club of the Year for the Yorkshire and Humberside region.
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Our look back to 2022 on the first day of Christmas takes us back to January. It’s cold, it’s damp, it’s wet, it’s muddy. Yes, you guessed it… it’s CROSS COUNTRY! On the 29th January 2022, 12 Vale of York junior and senior members entered the Northern Athletics Cross Country Championships at Pontefract Park. This […]
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This weekend saw the launch of our ‘Introduction to Road Cycling’ series on the traffic-free cycle circuit at York Sport Village. Nine budding cyclists, aged 4 to 54, joined our British Cycling Coach, Steph Hiscott, for a free taster session to learn how to ride confidently in a group and communicate with each other on […]
Vale of York Athletic Community is now Registered Charity no. 1197044! Steph will be emailing out regarding membership for 2022 very soon. Those of you who have already taken advantage of the £50 household membership option, we will transfer your details to the new system. Your membership is valid all the way until January 2023. […]
Vale of York has been awarded £4,000 in grants from Selby Town Council (£3,432) and Selby District Council (£540). This will enable us to buy new indoor athletics equipment and continue Athletics 4 All till at least the end of 2022. Official publicity coming soon, but I thought you would all like to know about […]
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Nicola Henderson picked up the prize for first woman in the F40 age category at the Bramham 10K today, while Vale of York team mate, Emma Winter, took third place.