Team Brut

02/02/2023

✴️ Kedron parkrunners assemble! ✴️
Now that we have your attention… we’re looking to put together a top-notch team of volunteers for this weekend’s event! We still need:

🎟 Finish Tokens person
🙌 2 x Marshals
📣 Funnel Manager
📱Photographer

Volunteering is a great way to meet new people. All roles are super easy with full training and lots of fun guaranteed 🙂 Please comment below, send us a FB message or email us at kedron@parkrun.com if you can help out this week and/or in the upcoming weeks (plenty of opportunities available then too) — Emma, RD

02/02/2023

Did you catch this announcement this week? If you work as a teacher in a very remote area for four years, we’ll help cover your study debt.

We want to make it easier for very remote areas to attract teachers - and keep them.

Because our youngest Australians deserve the best education, no matter where they live.

02/02/2023

For the last 6 years the last Saturday in February has seen us attend parkrun for parkrundownunderday.

The date will not change - keep the last Saturday in February free (25th February). However, it will now be renamed parkruntheworldday and our primary goal is to volunteer. Our goal is to encourage more people to volunteer & help parkrun thrive - without volunteers parkrun would fold.

If you have never volunteered, then this is your day to do so. Head down to your local parkrun this Saturday and put your name on the list for Saturday February 25. Even if you do it once a year - this is the day to do so!! Let’s all put the volunteer vest over the top of our Run The World merch!!

02/02/2023

Juuust saying. ⁠
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Don't forget to register for our new Twilight 20km Coastrek. ⁠
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Register via the links below:
Sydney - https://bit.ly/Sydney-20km-register
Mornington - https://bit.ly/Mornington-20km-register

02/02/2023

Today is the first day Australians will have access to 10 days domestic violence leave.

This is life changing for many, and should be a proud day for all the survivors, advocates, front line workers and their unions who have fought long and hard for this.

Australian Services Union

02/02/2023

A massive massive milestone has been achieved this week.

In a huge win for our local community - the playing field at Balmoral State High School which Campbell Newman originally tried to sell off but then gave away for free to Council instead - has now been formally transferred back to Education Department ownership.

Which means this mighty school, of which we’re all so proud, now has the land back which was theirs in the first place - to support its stunning growth in student numbers, and to add available green space.

Thank you to every single person along the way - and there have been many many thousands - who protested against the proposed sale, who signed my petitions to get Brisbane City Council to hand back the land (which they refused to do), who’ve been alongside me as we navigated the legal complexities of pretty much a forced take-over of the land from Council (in a tenure initiative that had never been done before).

Specially Nigel Gibson, who was on the Balmoral State High School P&C Association at the time of the proposed sale, and spearheaded the campaign.

As did Kevin Rudd and Shayne Sutton.

We’ve run a loooong campaign. And we’ve won.

28/01/2023

28/01/2023

Regretfully we need to share the news that we will be cancelling Kedron parkrun for this weekend - Saturday 5th March.
This is due to a number of factors including the current road closure of Shaw Rd and the amount of debris and hazards still out on course. The safety of our parkrunners and our community is of utmost importance to us.
We're also thinking of those members of our community that have been impacted by flooding or storm damage.
Brisbane City Council are working hard to make our parks and walkways safe, and we will be able to return sometime soon.
Bronwin - Event Director, on behalf of the Kedron parkrun team: Joel, Emma, Lenore, Chris and Cherie. ❤️