Darlington parkrun

17/06/2026

Thank you everyone! We will see you all Saturday morning!

We still have lots of volunteer roles available this weekend. Please let us know if you can help

We still need
- timekeeper
- funnel manager
- barcode scanners x3
- marshals x2

Please send us an email or leave a message below if you can help

Thank you!

12/06/2026

Good evening everyone,
Please take a moment to read the following ahead of tomorrow's event.

A massive thank you to everyone who has responded to our volunteer appeals. We've managed to fill most of our roles, but we still have a couple of gaps.

This weekend we only have ONE timekeeper and are also missing a marshal.

As always, but especially this weekend, it's really important that everyone follows the finish funnel process correctly:
- Finish on the left-hand side once you have completed your 3 laps.
- Stay in the order you finished after crossing the finish line.
- Follow the path around to collect a finish token.
- Have both your finish token and parkrun barcode scanned by our barcode scanners.

Please do not:
- Cross the finish line more than once.
- Move out of position in the finish funnel.
- Refuse a finish token if you have crossed the finish line.

Philip, our wonderful timekeeper this weekend, would really appreciate everyone following the above. As he's working without a second timekeeper, it's especially important that our finish process runs as smoothly as possible.

If anyone is able to volunteer for either of the remaining roles, please let us know.
If there are any further updates, I'll include them in my run briefing tomorrow.

Thank you, and see you all in the morning!

11/06/2026

Good evening parkrun community, to ensure the success of parkrun on Saturday, we still need volunteers for the following positions:

1 Funnel,
1 Timekeeper,
and 3 additional Marshals.

If you are willing to volunteer, please provide your parkrun ID number and the position you would like to undertake in the comments or via email. Many Thanks 😊

10/06/2026

Good evening,

We are still needing Volunteers for the parkrun to go ahead on Saturday.

1 Funnel
1 Time keeper
1 Finish Token giver outer
4 or more Barcode scanners
4 or more Marshals.

If you would like to volunteer please comment on here with your parkrun ID number and what position you that you want to do.

Or you can Email with what position and your parkrun ID number.

Many Thanks 😊

09/06/2026

Lots of familiar Darlo faces in this! What was *your* event in a million? Let us know
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05/06/2026

Happy Friday parkrunners! Another volunteer shout out - for tomorrow, we're still looking for a funnel manager, a finish token giver and a couple of marshals. Please comment below if you can help!

Also... do you have a one-in-a-million parkrun memory to share with the world? This weekend, we'll be filming short clips to celebrate the one millionth parkrun event (I believe that's combined, rather than a million different parkruns - so here in Darlington we've contributed 621 of those near-million events).

We're looking for some willing participants to take part in short video clips telling us what their 'parkrun event in a million' was. It could be anything - whatever's special or memorable to you! That PB parkrun? The time all your mates surprised you for a milestone? The time you finally convinced someone to join in?

Interested? Our film crew (OK, solitary volunteer with a smartphone) will be loitering by the fountain before parkrun in the morning - pop along and get involved.

04/06/2026

Good evening
We are still looking for volunteers to fill the vacancies on the roster

Need
1 Funnel
3 Marshals
And some one to give out those little tiny finish tokens

If you want to volunteer please email or comment on here with your parkrun ID number and which one you would like to do.

30/05/2026

That was event number 621 - otherwise known as - the one where I asked you for some cash.... Thank you for listening - more on this in a moment...

426 of you ran, jogged and walked the course today
41 if you were first timers and we welcomed visitors from as far afield as Canada this morning.

42 PB's today - ain't VitD good for the soul

The event today was made possible by 28 volunteers - PLEASE say a huge thank you too....

John BRANT • Allen HAZLETT • Carys SAMUEL • Rob GILLHAM • Gillian HARRIS • Paul BRENNAN • Andrew FAHEY • Trevor MCDERMOT • Linda MCDERMOT • Taryn MONKS • Anne HUTCHINSON • Margaret DENT • Philippa RAYNER • Andrew VASEY • Lisa BUCKLEY • Mike WHELAN • Philip WARNER • Margaret WATERSON • Heather BARRON • Berni GIBSON • Sandie TENWICK • Colin YOUNG • Peter SINGLETON • Margaret BLACKBURN • Jenna GORDON • Lord METALLICA • Roy MACK • Mari GREEN

Now - about that donation... (and thank you for listening this morning - I appreciate it very much)

We are looking to buy a shipping container to keep all our bits in. This will help us in many ways, it means we mitigate (almost entirely) the risk of our stuff being 'chucked'. We give the Cafe space in the cleaning cupboard back; we can keep kit dry, it's more accessible and I can stop being a pain (not possible I hear you cry) in the Council's neck.

So what do I need you to do....?

1. Go to:

https://www.parkrun.org.uk/darlingtonsouthpark/aboutus/

IT IS THE 'ABOUT US' PART OF OUR PAGE THAT YOU NEED PLEASE.

2. CLICK THE PURPLE BUTTON - THIS ENSURES THAT WE GET THE DONATIONS INTO OUR POT.

If every regular runner gave a couple of pounds - we would be nearly there...

The 'about us' part of the website is where the 'donate to this event' button is... as Prince once said....

I only want to see you baby hitting the purple button.....

(dreadful gag that but you know that's your ear worm for today)

Thank you - this means a lot... Our aim is simply to keep running...

Until next time - take care of yourselves and of each other

Pipster x

29/05/2026

Need a finish token giver outerer to go ahead tomorrow please....

Please mail in or comment below if you can help

23/05/2026

Darlington South Park parkrun - that was Event 620 - it was a hot one today!!

391 of you ran, jogged and walked the course.
44 were first timers
43 of you recorded a new Personal Bests.

Lisa hit 100 volunteer credits
We had visitors from Essex and Gloucestershire
Emma hit 200
Lauren and her on board passenger hit 50

Top work all of you!!

The event was made possible by 27 volunteers:

John BRANT 🌟Allen HAZLETT 🌟Rob GILLHAM 🌟Gillian HARRIS 🌟Sue ALEXANDER 🌟Pauline BROWN 🌟Trevor MCDERMOT 🌟Linda MCDERMOT 🌟Victoria PEARSON 🌟Graham WAUDBY 🌟Margaret DENT 🌟Lisa BOWERBANK • Philippa RAYNER 🌟Diane LOCKHART 🌟Lin GOSSAGE • Isla BOWERBANK 🌟Lisa BUCKLEY 🌟Mike WHELAN •🌟Philip WARNER 🌟Bailey WHITLEY 🌟Heather BARRON 🌟Berni GIBSON 🌟Sandie TENWICK 🌟Colin YOUNG 🌟Peter SINGLETON 🌟Margaret BLACKBURN 🌟Lord METALLICA

EXTRA special thanks from me and Rachel to all those people who have helped and contributed to us replenishing lost kit and items - we are eternally very very grateful.

Have a great day - see you next week

Please see information below on how to donate:

https://www.parkrun.org.uk/southpark-juniors/aboutus/

https://www.parkrun.org.uk/darlingtonsouthpark/aboutus/

Scroll down to the button that says - donate to this event. This takes you to a PayPal link that will send funds directly to the either the 5km or the 2km event.

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