parkrun thread

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Fields
Fields
Nov 2023
8:08am, 25 Nov 2023
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I don’t see that it’s your fault, Linds, I also don’t think it’s necessarily reasonable that a RD should manage and coordinate three separare methods of communication for volunteer recruitment - particularly as only one of those - email - is required for signing up to parkrun, and is also the one used to communicate results / newsletters etc.
Lip Gloss
Lip Gloss
Nov 2023
8:24am, 25 Nov 2023
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Lip Gloss
You can also see by looking at a parkrun run and look at the volunteers/future rota and see what hasn’t been filled.
Derby Tup
Derby Tup
Nov 2023
8:27am, 25 Nov 2023
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Derby Tup
Support for you here too LindsD

There wouldn't be Parkrun without volunteers
Lip Gloss
Lip Gloss
Nov 2023
8:30am, 25 Nov 2023
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Lip Gloss
run = page
Dvorak
Dvorak
Nov 2023
8:36am, 25 Nov 2023
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Dvorak
Some parkruns (probably all the ones local to me I keep an eye on) are appealing for volunteers most weeks on FB - or sometimes saying that all essential roles have been filled. So people look there for info, and it generally works. I did notice that Northala Fields rarely post anything, so people probably don't look.

(I don't know that any use Twitter. And many don't use their own news pages much.)
mrs shanksi
mrs shanksi
Nov 2023
8:36am, 25 Nov 2023
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mrs shanksi
Well said LG. And we obviously mention it every week in the briefing and always say you can't have parkrun without volunteers.
Old Croc
Old Croc
Nov 2023
8:39am, 25 Nov 2023
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Old Croc
Sympathy with LindsD as an ED we are appealing almost every week. We have come very close to cancelling several times. We use emails an FB as well as run brief: so frustrating at times.
Fields
Fields
Nov 2023
8:40am, 25 Nov 2023
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Fields
Also the quirks of Facebook algorithms mean that posts aren’t always visible to FB users I think, then there’s the assumption that the Parkrunner even has a FB account and then follows the Parkrun page.
LindsD
LindsD
Nov 2023
9:57am, 25 Nov 2023
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LindsD
Thank you all. We do also appeal during the briefing. Apparently around 50 people turned up and everyone was pleasant.
Flatlander
Flatlander
Nov 2023
10:13am, 25 Nov 2023
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Flatlander
Apparently around 50 people turned up and everyone was pleasant.

Pleased for you, LindsD, that there was no unpleasantness.

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