Stoke Gifford Park Run decision

[Fnaar]

ParkRun have cancelled it for this weekend now...

 

[Stephenite]

ParkRun have cancelled it for this weekend now...

It will probably be cancelled for a while. Well done the chairman and members of Stoke Gifford parish council. A great British institution pissed on.

 

[summerdays]

I'm sure I recognise one of the councillors names as being unsupportive of cycling in various things...

 

[mybike]

300 people on a path take up remarkably little room. I've done the Wycombe Rye run a couple of times. There's a section where the front runners and back runners are on the same section of path, going in opposite directions, for about 5 minutes. There's still room for both groups to get around the very small number of other people who are out and about at 9:30 on a Saturday morning. That's a path which would be rejected as a one-way cycle path for being too narrow to overtake sensibly.

In your view as a runner. All this is about an organisation that provides a service and presumably has an income from it being asked to pay a small fee. So why shouldn't they contribute to a facility which allows them to run their business? They are using something that they do not contribute towards. And no one is stopping those who want to run doing so.

 

[mybike]

Do you mean teams that are affiliated to the FA (and follow the rules, and pay their dues), or teams comprised of between 5 and twenty lads meeting up on a saturday afternoon during the summer?

I wouldn't know, I've no interest in football, just so long as it's kept away from where I am.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I'm sure I recognise one of the councillors names as being unsupportive of cycling in various things...

Ernest Brown?

 

[srw]

In your view as a runner. All this is about an organisation that provides a service and presumably has an income from it being asked to pay a small fee. So why shouldn't they contribute to a facility which allows them to run their business? They are using something that they do not contribute towards. And no one is stopping those who want to run doing so.

It's got £99,000 in the bank, and total net assets of £33,000. All of which I found out for free from Companies House. That's the worldwide operation, not the one in South Glos.

Parkrun is a classic shoestring community operation. Its most aggressive occupation of any given bit of path takes up less room than one lorry. It would be silly to require it to charge, both for the sensible health reasons being put forward and for the practical reason that it's expensive and inefficient to collect and administer lots of small payments.

 

[Wafer]

In your view as a runner. All this is about an organisation that provides a service and presumably has an income from it being asked to pay a small fee. So why shouldn't they contribute to a facility which allows them to run their business? They are using something that they do not contribute towards. And no one is stopping those who want to run doing so.

So a cycling club should be charged for organizing a weekly ride out too then?

 

[mybike]

It's got £99,000 in the bank, and total net assets of £33,000. All of which I found out for free from Companies House. That's the worldwide operation, not the one in South Glos.

Parkrun is a classic shoestring community operation. Its most aggressive occupation of any given bit of path takes up less room than one lorry. It would be silly to require it to charge, both for the sensible health reasons being put forward and for the practical reason that it's expensive and inefficient to collect and administer lots of small payments.

So you can see it has income, just like Google, Facebook etc. So they probably hope to make money out of it long term like other organisations have done, why shouldn't they contribute. This is all very boring.

 

[mybike]

So a cycling club should be charged for organizing a weekly ride out too then?

Why not, if they are going to make use of a limited facility.

 

[srw]

So you can see it has income, just like Google, Facebook etc. So they probably hope to make money out of it long term like other organisations have done, why shouldn't they contribute. This is all very boring.

No. It's a non-profit organisation. Again I found that out for free from Companies House.

 

[mybike]

No. It's a non-profit organisation. Again I found that out for free from Companies House.

I really don't care.

 

[Fab Foodie]

This is all very boring.

Clearly. But then small-mindedness usually is ....

 

[EltonFrog]

It's got £99,000 in the bank, and total net assets of £33,000. All of which I found out for free from Companies House. That's the worldwide operation, not the one in South Glos.

Parkrun is a classic shoestring community operation. Its most aggressive occupation of any given bit of path takes up less room than one lorry. It would be silly to require it to charge, both for the sensible health reasons being put forward and for the practical reason that it's expensive and inefficient to collect and administer lots of small payments.

They're not exactly coining it in are they, taking into account all the work and effort to run these events and the extra aggro that this small minded mean spirited council have caused them?

 

[User482]

In your view as a runner.

In my view as a cyclist, using the paths in my local park at the same time as the runners. I expect you think I should be paying to cycle there, too.