parkrun thread
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Dec 2024
8:27am, 10 Dec 2024
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Lesley C
I sent the link to our other ED, will see what he thinks. He still needs a few volunteers for Christmas day too. I only have a tail walker down for the 28th, and I really need a holiday so don't want to spend ages chasing volunteers.
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Dec 2024
8:37am, 10 Dec 2024
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larkim
Any thoughts from the good folk on here as to which of these to pick for my Saturday morning fix as I travel from Cheshire to Cardiff to pick up son from uni? Ludlow, Hereford, Newtown, Riverside Walk or Y Promenad look like the options, depending on how early I can be bothered to leave on Saturday. |
Dec 2024
9:24am, 10 Dec 2024
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auburnette
Ludlow is pretty, it'll be muddy. I found Hereford quite boring tbh, it's just round a racecourse and it isn't unusually fast nor especially slow/scenic. The dog enjoyed it but he also enjoyed Ludlow more 😉
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Dec 2024
10:41am, 10 Dec 2024
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Meep Meep
Old Croc wrote: It is soul destroying having to chase for volunteers almost every week. Soul-destroying? Blimey, what is it you are doing? We just pop up a FB post and/or pop out an email and then offers come in. |
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Dec 2024
11:16am, 10 Dec 2024
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larkim
Muddy I can handle if I know in advance! Thanks @auburnette
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Dec 2024
11:28am, 10 Dec 2024
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Old Croc
It's the every single week bit that is the bind. We shouldn't need to put out an appeal every bloody week.
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Dec 2024
11:33am, 10 Dec 2024
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The Mussile
you have an event every week then you need to appeal for volunteers every week surely? Not sure why that is soul destroying. It's one email and a few facebook posts, so only as onerous as you want to make it.
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Dec 2024
11:39am, 10 Dec 2024
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fetcheveryone
If it had proven so easy for some teams, I doubt we'd be having the discussion.
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Dec 2024
11:47am, 10 Dec 2024
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jdawayinamanger
When people take on a responsibility they usually try to do their best and put in extra effort as required, and the job gets bigger and bigger. This is one reason why I'm a strong advocate of term-limited positions, in all sorts of organisations, voluntary and otherwise. I'm about to become treasurer of a local charity, but I taking it on with a view to doing it for maybe 3 years, then it's someone else's turn. I could have a go at some other position, or just take a break from formal management responsibility (I'm already doing quite a lot of stuff for the organisation). When I've been involved in policy-setting for a volunteer-run organisation that I helped to establish and run for a while we made this an explicit policy and it's worked brilliantly. (we set a limit of a 2 year term, renewable once, for the executive board and chief exec) If the organisation in question folds for lack of volunteers, well that just means it wasn't popular enough. Shrug. |
Dec 2024
12:00pm, 10 Dec 2024
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Ally-C
fetcheveryone wrote: If it had proven so easy for some teams, I doubt we'd be having the discussion. Exactly. |
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