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Tuesday 07 October 2008
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Best Practice

This page is devoted to showcasing some of the excellent development work that goes in across the East region road running clubs

 

This page covers

 

  • Club development
  • Coach Development
  • Officating Development
  • Race Organisation
  • Facility Development
  • Sponsorship

 

examples from the road running fraternity in the East Of England. The page is only as good as the information supplied and we do not know about all that is going on so please use this page to submit information about your club, your race, your coaching scheme or otherwise.

 

The information can be submitted in a variety of forms to us via post or email but should look to cover the following

 

  • Project title
  • Project aims
  • Successes
  • Challenges
  • Issues
  • Partners
  • How Was It Funded
  • Future Plans

 

To show you what we mean by best practice, please see the below case study from Witham Running Club in Essex, a club whose membership rose from 70 members to 180 in the space of a few years through hard graft and proactive recruitment and marketing of the club.

 

We have also attached useful documents below that may support runners, running clubs or race organisers with developing their activities, we are grateful to the following people for allowing us to showcase this work.

 

  • Dave Young - Race Director Luton Marathon

  • John Catlin - Race Director Luton Marathon

  • Kath McGrath - Race Direction Great Eastern Run Peterborough

  • John Anderson - Legendary Olympic & World Coach

  • Liam Cain - UKA Endurance Performance Coach

 

 

 

 

 

Witham Running Club Case Study
Witham Running Club Case Study - [53 KB] See the key elements behind the growth of this Essex community running club