Sunday 11 May

“2008 Fun Run the best yet” the words of Simon Watts Managing Director
of Fiat Piccadilly and the major sponsor of our Fun Run for a decade.
We are very grateful to him.

The weather was glorious, the runners perhaps would have liked it a little cooler, the sunshine certainly added to the success of the day. The main contributing factor to a real “feel good” day though was the hard work of a fantastic team of well over 50 parents, teachers, their family and friends working behind the scenes for many months on the planning and organisation of this very large project and displaying great teamwork on the day to make it all run so smoothly and be enjoyable for the 1000’s of people that were there.

An early start with lots of car booters brought early promise of a profitable day ahead. The Giant Plant Sale swung into action soon after and then it was a frenzy of activity. Just short of 1000 runners entered the Fun run and a record 184 entered the 10 k trail run. Final figures can be found at the end of this page. The highest number ever of stalls and attractions were on the field. From the dance display courtesy of Studio 3 to the fantastic, crowd arousing Dakota fly past & Black Knights Parachutists it was all deemed a huge success.

Money is still coming in so we are optimistic that the final total raised will be very high. We are also sure that many charities will have benefited from the runners sponsorship and the charity stalls on the field. This community and charitable aspect makes King James’s  Fun Run something to be immensely proud of and already we are working hard having a “hot debrief”  to help plan for next year.

We were sponsored and supported this year by a large number of businesses and organisations and a full list follows. Special thanks to the two sets of parents who came forward to jointly sponsor the Fun Run; we hope their businesses will also benefit from this generosity: Camax UK (Amanda and Peter Abbott) and The Whole Picture Company (Rebecca and Steve Clark).

Anyone wishing to get involved with the Fun Run and any of our other activities, with new ideas and offers of help, should get in touch with Melanie Kirkwood
melanie.kirkwood@virgin.net  (01423) 869886 or keep a look out on the school website for letters home.

Update The Fun Run total = £10,344.59 6 June 2008

THANK YOU TO EVERYONE INVOLVED AND ALSO TO OUR MAJOR SPONSORS
PICCADILLY MOTORS
NETWORK PRINT AND DESIGN
LOTUS CONSTRUCTION LTD
CAMAX UK LTD
THE WHOLE PICTURE COMPANY
PIRANHA INVENTIVE PROMOTIONS
BIG MEDIA CO.
FLYING COLOURS FLAGMAKERS
FIRE BRIGADE
STUDIO 3 DANCE WORKSHOP

 

Results

916 runners completed the Fun Run

The Fun Run results were as follows:

Position	Runner	Time
1st	George Hinchcliffe	17:06
1st Female	Catherine Coupland	17:57
1st Junior	Andrew Owens	21:02

176 runners completed the 10k Run

The 10k results were as follows:

Position	Runner	Time
1st	Dean Shepherd	42:30
1st Female	Carol Humphrey	51:22

For the full 10k result list, click here