Norwich parkrun with British Sign Language Support

We had been contacted by Eleanor Craik from the Norfolk Summer Deaf Festival to see if we would like signed support for our briefing at Norwich parkrun and we jumped at the chance.

This sunny morning we met Eleanor an organiser of the Norfolk Summer Deaf Festival & Emma Cossey who interpreted the run directors briefing. It was great to have new people to Norwich parkrun who could benefit from a signed briefing. We hope to have many more parkruns in which BSL is included and used to improve accessibilty for Deaf and hearing impaired runners.

We were also joined by Phillipa Wynne who ran with her new baby and husband. Phillipa is an advocate for Deaf and hard of hearing access at parkruns. She has filmed many vidoes about parkrun. You can see her signed video about Rutland parkrun here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zHVN_2g5Tc&list=PLoeMsRMBXw6vNom9SaptWbfj76JmeSfCr

🌳 Norwich parkrun No: 460 ⏱ Total Finishers: 449 😊 First Ever parkrun: 36 🏆 PB’s: 63 👟 Different Clubs: 27 ❤️ Volunteers: 28 including BSL Signed Support

❤️❤️❤️ Love parkrun? Give some love back by volunteering!

Volunteer on a Saturday morning during the month of June at Norwich parkrun (Eaton Park). Meet at the bandstand at 8:30am with the run director and the other high-viz heroes. You will have a full briefing of the mornings events and how to best support everyone participating at parkrun.

Tasks are varied and include: marshalling, scanning, giving out & sorting finish tokens, tail - walker and many more. All of the tasks are explained in full, easy to do and the tasks are a fun insight into how parkrun runs! The volunteering role usually finishes around 10-10:30am.

Volunteering is great for example if you become injured, are just getting into running, or even have a race on the following Sunday!

If you want to give back to the parkrun community & gain new experiences then parkrun volunteering is for you. You will receive a point on your parkrun profile & if you volunteer 25 times you will gain a free purple 25 volunteer t-shirt! If you would like to volunteer at Norwich parkrun and in turn receive a Goodgym good deed.

You will need to email: norwichhelpers@parkrun.com to let them know you are able to volunteer. Also let them know in your e-mail that you are part of Norwich Goodgym!

Because we work with vulnerable adults and our runners participate at their own risk, participants need to be over 18.

Looking forward to seeing you there, Hayley - Norwich parkrun Volunteer Organiser

Run 10 : Volunteer 1, Let's keep parkrun going