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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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.
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 […]