Sports team celebrate 10k run award success

21 Sep 2016

Our staff participation in Great Manchester 10k run wins at the annual North West Awards for England Athletics

We were shortlisted for the Project of the Year Award, recognising our achievements in getting 1,114 people involved in the #purplewave of the Great Manchester 10K in May 2016. 

At an awards ceremony at Bolton Golf Club on Monday night, we were named as the award winner and now the team will go forward to the National Awards in October – so watch this space!

Thoughts are also turning to the 2017 Great Manchester Run, and on the back of our 2016 success, we have worked in partnership with the Great Run team who are allowing us to do it all again, but this time bigger and better. 

On 28 May, our goal is to get 3,000 ‘purple people’ in a University #purplewave  - and it’s open to staff or students.  

Whether you run already or have never run before, we want you in our #purplewave and you can register your interest for next year.

For those of you looking to start your running journey, then why not join our latest Couch to 5k running group?  We will be meeting for the first time on Wednesday 5 October and aim to complete the initial 9 training weeks together and then take it from there. 

You can keep track of progress and we hope you will be able to join us!

Photo (L-R): Ellen Stephenson, Sport Development Coordinator; Dan Parkinson, England Athletics Running Participation Product Development Manager; James Marenghi , Sport Participations Manager; Gail Heathcote-Milner, Sport Development Coordinator