Marshalling: Sunday 26th March (Running Festival)

It’s fun and helps raise vital funds for the club. Please bring your friends, parents, children, uncles, aunts, sons, daughters, cousins – the more the better! Parents – bring a junior member! Juniors – bring a parent or adult! We need lots of people for this event!  

Please mark yourself as “available” with the green tick ✅ in Teamo by 18th March and - if you want to be positioned together or are bringing others - please complete this form too. (We need to know who is coming so we can assign pairs to positions on the course a few days ahead of time.)

Why do we ask members to marshal this event?  

Wilmslow Hockey Club members have been marshalling at local running events for over 30 years! Marshalling is part of who we are and it is a vital fundraiser for the club. In fact, the Wilmslow Running Festival was started and is still operated by representatives of Wilmslow Hockey Club, Rugby Club and Running Club. Marshalling income raises over £6,500 a year - that’s equivalent to membership fees for 37 adults or 13% of our total income for the year. Marshalling income means we can keep membership fees down.  

I would like to set the expectation that EVERY adult member and EVERY junior member (U18s, U15s) volunteers to marshal AT LEAST ONE RACE EVERY YEAR. There are c.240 club members plus friends and family - more than enough to marshal all three races if we all do our bit.

Marshalling isn't anything to worry about!  

Those of you who have marshalled races before will know that it is:

• Fun – entertaining, good humoured and you can marshal with your friends/family
• Rewarding - runners show their appreciation to the marshals
• Easy - doesn’t require any skills or knowledge, we give you guidance
• Short – it’s over in ~3 hours on a Sunday morning
• Inspiring - to see so many runners and feel part of the community. 

We will make sure you have all the support you need and will position you with more experienced marshals if you are concerned.  

Thank you in anticipation of your support! 

Steve Kinsella

President, Wilmslow Hockey Club

marshalling@wilmslowhockey.org.uk