Advice wanted: organising a run

[HeavyFoot]

Our village is punting for ideas for the Queen’s jubilee celebrations.

To the parish council, I floated a run from here to the next village and back (10km) with 5 hard hills. I tried torpedoing the idea by saying “of course we’d never get permission to close the roads”. But someone said it would be enough to put up CAUTION RUNNERS ON ROAD signs with some marshals on the way. The lanes here only have lightish traffic.

This would be a real shoestring event: no entry money, no monetary prizes but basic commemorative bling, a table with water at the half way point.

Has anyone got experience of this? If we’re talking civil liability insurance, first aid marshals and the like, I wouldn’t be interested.

[Cmoi Graduate10]

Hmm, I'm guessing that if you (whether you personally HeavyFoot or the Parish Council) are going to promote this as an event in any way, shape or form, and invite people to take part, you could be held legally responsible for anything that happens as a reasonably foreseeable consequence.

There's info here: timeoutdoors.com/expert-adv..., or see the RunBritain site: runbritain.com/

As part of a previous job about a million years ago I did some 10k race organisation - essentially admin, promotion, comms and fundraising. One of the local running clubs did all the clever stuff like actual race licensing, route organisation and marshalling, etc.

With this in mind, do you have a friendly neighbourhood club who could get involved?

[HeavyFoot Graduate10 in reply to Cmoi]

Thank you, Cmoi. There are no local running groups - gradually, over time a few local runners have been coming out of the woodwork.

If insurance becomes an issue, I’ll see if it would be covered by any other village events going on at the same time.

[Oldfloss Administrator Graduate10]

Not sure on any of this. but this may be helpful?

gov.uk/government/publicati...

Part 5 is about road closures... which even though you talk of light traffic, the implications of a road or lane not closed are probably an issue?

It would appear, from this document, that your Local Council, not Parish Council may need to be informed and sorting things out could take a few weeks?

[HeavyFoot Graduate10 in reply to Oldfloss]

Thank you

[roseabi]

Teresa1632 organised a run a couple of years ago - might be worth messaging her:

healthunlocked.com/marathon...

[HeavyFoot Graduate10 in reply to roseabi]

Thank you