Meet our volunteers
December 15, 2024
by Martin Lawrence
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Let’s celebrate our amazing volunteers who generously give their time and energy to Redway Runners!
They’re the special pieces of our club’s success puzzle. We appreciate their tireless efforts and are thrilled to announce that Redway Runners has received the ‘King’s Award for Voluntary Service’ because of them.
Thank you to these incredible individuals for their priceless contributions!
Thank you to all who help Redway Runners for free.
To meet the run leads click here
Part 1 Lee, Mick and Jen
We would like to spotlight these hardworking individuals and express our deepest gratitude for their invaluable contributions with Mick and Jen who every year sail the Redway Runners ship for our very own Beat the Barge and Lee who is a club trainer for the club First Aid courses and our Poppy seller for the Remembrance run.
Part 2 Rena and Ian
We have Rena who has been a Welfare Officer for the club since day one of the club and Ian who leads on the Sunday social morning early lap and supports on many of the runs in the club
Part 3 Steve and Richard
We have Steve who manages the club 5 events, especially our massive MK24 in the summer, plus he looks after the club storage and does many other things around the club and Richard who conducts the clubs moments of remembrance, just recently our Remembrance runs at the club bench.
Part 4 Ros and Helen
We have Ros who is one of the club Welfare officers and Helen who helps/co-leads on the Monthly long ramble and host the club annual charity breakfast.
Part 5 Elliot and Cris
We have Elliot who is one of the club Welfare officers, Elliot also supports on the Tempo Tuesday and on Track Sessions and Cris who has been working on our Social media content, especially for the recent King’s Award, plus more coming about beginners.
Part 6 Nigel and Matthew
We have Nigel who has been on the club committee since the club started, he manages the club relationship with England Athletics and maintains our Affiliation as well as that undertakes all the member affiliations with EA and Matthew who this year has joined the team looking after our Cross Country participation
Part 7 Hannah and Becky
We have Hannah who has been leading on the Cross Country committee for the club this year and Becky who helps out around the club with many different things.
Part 8 Simon and Andy
We have Simon who has been helping on the Monday evening beginners group and Andy who has been a stand in run lead for some of the daytime runs.
Part 9 Kevin and Juliet
We have Kevin, in the original club top, was one of the founders of the club and was on the club committee doing the PR for the club, more recently Kevin helped behind the scenes working on our nomination for the ‘King’s Award for Voluntary Service’ and getting us ready for the announcement, plus Kevin is developing our New Years Eve Runopoly Special Event run. Juliet helps out in a number of ways including doing the club Green World Map.
Part 10 Michelle
Seems on only have an ‘odd one’ photo left! will capture a few more, we have Michelle, AKA MGB who does a lot of work for the club and this often goes unnoticed, she is on the club committee, as run lead coordinator, for this role has developed all the club policies and training so that the club meets the England Athletics club standards.
For the training she has bought the club First Aid training in house and been trained to deliver the clubs First Aid training programme to Run leads and other volunteers. She is often at club events providing the essential first aid support.
As well as this she is a Welfare Officer for the club.