Handsworth Park 10K - VIRTUAL

Sunday, 20th September, 2020

The first Pete Hayes Handsworth 10k was held on 14th September 2014. We are very proud that this all came together successfully, as it was the first time we as organisers had put together anything like this. The idea came from Tonia Clark and Rachel Chiu, who live locally and use Handsworth Park for leisure and running, and are passionate about it within their roles on the Committee of the Handsworth Park Association. They felt that an event such as this would be good for Handsworth Park and the surrounding area. They asked if we would like to help organise the run and name it in memory of Pete Hayes, who we lost as a son and brother in Summer 2012.

So, in 2014 we had over 130 people enter the run, and we managed to raise over £8000 for the British Heart Foundation. People from a variety of backgrounds; local residents, friends of Pete, members of our Boathouse Runners group and runners who had heard of our event contributed to this achievement and we are very grateful. A great day was had by all, we had lots of wonderful feedback about the friendly atmosphere and challenging course, and we were joined by MP Khalid Mahmood for the prizegiving at the end of the run.

We repeated this in 2015 and 2016. In 2015 we had 161 runners on the day and have raised over £10,000 for the British Heart Foundation. In 2016 we held our third event which had 159 runners and raised over £6000 to add further to the total raised for the British Heart Foundation. In 2017, 194 people took part in the run on the day and £8646 was raised for charity.

At this stage, £33,420 has been raised for the British Heart Foundation through our running events.

In 2017, we changed the name of the run to The Handsworth Park 10k Fun Run. We intend to continue the work started in memory of Pete and retain the atmosphere inspired by him and the community created by the run, in the heart of the local community.

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