Running Seeds - Rich Warren

January torch trail walks with Farsley Flyers!

January with the #WellingtonPacers! A great start to the year for tenants of @wp_leeds - sure we're a contender for the largest UK workplace running group?

The final #WellingtonPacers of 2024 🎉 Completing the year with a 5k Christmas Angel #StravaArt around #Leeds (Map - plotaroute.com/route/2828826) Work at @wp_leeds ? Join us, Thus 12:15 (from 16th Jan '25) #Community #Health #Run @WelcometoLeeds @ActiveLeeds @ConnectingLeeds

Hills night, so the Farsley Flyers torch trail walkers popped to St Peter's from Rodley! Everyone received an early pressie... an ankle treatment for silky smooth skin and a memory, courtesy of the horse field at Kemps Farm. 🐎🥾🥾🙃 #community #health #walk

Back to the Parks this runchtime for the #WellingtonPacers! Today, Wortley Rec for a nice long green park loop. Really pleasing to see so many out at this point in December 😊 Work at @wp_leeds ? Join us Thursdays 12:15! #community #health #run

Ho yes, it's now December 🎅 Keeping those advent chocs in balance and creating a bit of room for the festivities, the @wp_leeds #WellingtonPacers sleighed the ginnels to the docks and cruised the riverside back to base. A great 6km lunchtime loop.

The #FarsleyFlyers torch trail walkers took on Apperley Bridge Marina from Calverley last week. A beautiful still but chilly night it was too.

Slipping behind on posts - here's the #WellingtonPacers last week playing a madness tribute to the same spot as in the early One Step Beyond video: youtube.com/watch?v=SOJSM4… Work at @wp_leeds ? Join us Thursdays 12:15 and discover #Leeds

Crisp, sunshine and blue skies; perfect to explore Leeds Parks on a lunchtime 😅 Today the #WellingtonPacers made the sunny climb through Rosebank and around Woodhouse Moor. A perfect 6km #runch office break. Work at @wp_leeds ? Join us, Thursdays 12:15 to discover Leeds.

Thursday's @FarsleyFlyers torch trail walking group had a wander around Woodhall this week. Gorgeous. No official walk next week (21st Nov) as I'll be at @GT_Gathering* considering ways to elaborate on sustainability services. * for the group; it's not a 'G&T Gathering' 🙂

Farewell to Armley Steps for 2024 with the #WellingtonPacers this lunchtime. Armley Park is looking grand none the less @loveleedsparks Another 6km loop destination to discover from Leeds... work at @wp_leeds ? Join us Thursday lunchtimes at 12:15pm #Run #Work #WelcomeToLeeds

Imagine walking from #Farsley to near #Wakefield only to be confronted by a sheep shouting "None shall paaaaass". Anyhoo, long story short and a leg of lamb later, arrived in Wakey. Route: strava.com/activities/128… Pics: photos.runningseeds.co.uk/index.php?/cat…

Cripes, Thursdays are busy and I seem to have forgotten to post last week's return to @FarsleyFlyers torch walks and even didn't take a group pic this week up Hunger Hills! Never fear, I have a brief video from this week which may help some decide about light levels on the move.

A 6km loop up to Cross Flatts Park today for the #WellingtonPacers, including a pause by the cenotaph in Holbeck Cemetery. Work at @wp_leeds ? Join us, Thursdays 12:15.

Who let the bears out? Today the #WellingtonPacers took a climb up through Burley Park and onwards to reach the Headingley Bear Pit - recently restored by @LeedsCivicTrust Another landmark within a 6km lunchtime loop from Leeds city. Work at @wp_leeds ? Join us, Thu 12:15pm.

The #WellingtonPacers taking a rare jaunt through town to scooch past Quarry House; checking out the East Street Arts "To Be or Not To Be" mural. Fab to see everyone and loving the weather still! Work at @wp_leeds ? Join us Thus 12:15pm. Pics here: photos.runningseeds.co.uk

Autumn days! Kicking around the leaves in Wortley Rec was the choice today for the #WellingtonPacers. Only a short jaunt from town, but a great open space. Work at @wp_leeds Leeds? Join us, Thursdays 12:15pm.

Leeds looking mighty fine on this week's #WellingtonPacers lunchtime run. @BurleyPark & Green then a few hill reps, followed by the River Aire and the canal - all easy reach from the city centre. Work at @wp_leeds ? Join us Thursdays 12:15. @WelcometoLeeds @RunLeeds

I've now started to pull together some of the photos from over the last few years in to one place. 📸 photos.runningseeds.co.uk Wow, just how many groups - and that's not all of them by a long way.

@loveleedsparks The guidance doc probably should highlight PLI?(especially in the costs example, since it's mandatory and potentially half of the example cost)

Read more here: loveleedsparks.org.uk/community-park… Deadline for applications is 31st October and all grants must be spent by December 2025. We can't wait to see what fantastic events are produced with this round!

Earlier this week, we launched the third round of our Community Park Activity Grants with thanks to @HeritageFundUK and @TNLUK Players! This round we're giving away up to £10,000 across projects taking place in Stanningley Park and Hunslet Moor Park.