Hove Promenade parkrun

17/09/2026

Lovely, lovely Prom people. It is the time of the week when this is ACTUAL live-time footage of your run director.

Saturday is almost upon us and we still need:
* a timekeeper
* a token giver-outerer
* eight more marshals

To those of you who've volunteered so far, THANK YOU! If you've been lurking in the background, are feeling underconfident or are concerned that pink might not be your colour (spoiler alert: IT IS!), now is your moment to step forward.

Drop us a message or email us on [email protected] and you will be the recipient of our grateful thanks :)

16/09/2026

And in the blink of the eye, it’s Wednesday and halfway to our next parkrun on the prom!

We’re thinking pink as we could do with quite a few more hi viz-wearing volunteers to go ahead. If you fancy joining us for a coffee, some excellent company and a blast of vitamin D (well, a girl can hope, right?) please have a look at our roles here https://www.parkrun.org.uk/hovepromenade/futureroster/ and drop us a message on [email protected] or in the comments.

We’re also about to share a very exciting announcement about our event on 26th September…

13/09/2026

12/09/2026

One real joy of parkrun is that rocking up on the prom (or at another event) on a Saturday morning isn’t just a run thing. As people start to arrive on the seafront each week, everyone brings a different week of experiences and challenges. Some folk may have used every last scrap of energy just to get there for 9am (or for 8.30 if they’re volunteering) and although on the face of it, parkrun might look like a sporting event and some people do show up just to run a 5k, it’s also community, therapy, an hour’s break from everything else going on and a place where everyone is welcome. The ‘thank you, marshal’s, the cheers for regulars and visitors and the hugs, tea drinking and laughs matter at least as much as the tokens and the times. If you made it to the prom this week, we hope you feel the same and had a wonderful morning.

The September sunshine stretched summer out just a little longer today and 790 folk came to join us by the seaside. The legends who are Noel and Murphy reached their 25 milestone (with Noel commenting that he didn’t think he’d manage one but has become one of our wonderful regulars) and Bramble and Caroline hit their 25 volunteer along with Tom Coombe. Megan, our prom regular, completed her 250 run with us. Aurelia, our bride-to-be, chose Hove Prom to celebrate her nuptials, Matsui, our friend from Japan dropped in for his September visit (see you again in November, Matsui!) , and Steve, Maggie, Glynn and Darren ran all five Brighton and Hove parkruns this morning starting at 5.15 am and finishing with us. And of course we had a participant wearing a seagull outfit. Well done, sir! With the school term starting again, we were very happy to welcome a whole new gang of Duke of Edinburgh volunteers who took our hi-viz team up to 77 today. Thank you to every single one of you!

If you came along today and brought a smile, a thank you and a good vibe, we were happy to see you and we hope you’ll come back next week. You’re ALWAYS welcome to join us volunteering by emailing us at [email protected] or by popping a note on our Facebook, Instagram or Strava. Have a fantastic week until then, Prommers.

12/09/2026

What a lovely morning on the prom! 🧡

A huge thank you to all our incredible volunteers for making today’s parkrun possible. We really couldn’t do it without you. 🦺

We also had a rather lovely new addition to the prom today - our very own Story Trail bench! Launching today, you’ll find more than 30 of these benches across the city. Thanks to Amaze and Wild in Art for bringing The Story Trail to life.

And, of course, a shout-out to The Lawns Cafe and their brilliant team for keeping us fuelled post-parkrun! Very important work! ☕️

Results are up https://www.parkrun.org.uk/hovepromenade/results/2026-09-12/

12/09/2026

What a gorgeous day for a parkrun on the prom! ☀️ See you soon Prommers!

10/09/2026

Well, Prommers… you did it! 🥳

11 marshals in 30 minutes - that has to be an all time volunteer appeal record! If only every roster filled that quickly!

⭐️A huge thank you to everyone who stepped up. You are all absolute stars and to put it simply, we wouldn’t be going ahead on Saturday without you. ⭐️

So, if you’re running, walking or rolling with us this weekend, please give our volunteers an extra big thank you as you pass them. They’ve made parkrun on the Prom possible. 👏

As always, if you have any milestones to celebrate or want to be added to the roster for this Saturday (or any future date), just let us know! 🧡

10/09/2026

Prommers, we still need 12 marshals for Saturday. That’s a lot of empty hi-vis!

A huge thank you to everyone who has already volunteered - we really do appreciate you. 🧡

Right now, we still need at least 12 more marshals to enable the event to go ahead safely.

If you haven’t volunteered for a while - or you’ve never volunteered before - this is the week we really need your help.

We’ll be making a decision later today about whether Saturday can go ahead. We really don’t want to be posting a cancellation if we can help it. 😢

If you can help, please comment below or email [email protected] as soon as you can.

Come and be one of the 12! 🧡

09/09/2026

If you’re looking out of the window thinking what a lovely day it is after all that rain yesterday… good news, Saturday is currently looking much the same! ☀️

The not-so-good news is that, unless we get a bit more help, we won’t be running on the prom.

We still need these essential roles filled before we can safely go ahead:

Time Checker, Tail Walker, Non-running Barcode Scanners, Finish Tokens and 12 Marshals

If you can help us this Saturday, please let us know as soon as you can, either here or [email protected].

And if this week doesn’t work for you, but you’d be happy to volunteer another week, please do get in touch anyway. Seeing the roster fill up in advance makes an enormous difference and takes a lot of pressure off the core team.

As ever, you don’t need to volunteer every week to make a difference, even the occasional Saturday is a huge help 🧡

07/09/2026

Can you help this Saturday? 🙏

The roster is looking pretty empty, and we need volunteers in most areas, including:

First Timers Welcome, Time Checker, Barcode Scanners, Funnel Managers, Finish Tokens, Marshals (17), parkwalker, Photographer, Report Writer and Post-event Close Down.

If you haven’t volunteered for a while, or have never tried it before, why not give it a go? Even volunteering once is an enormous help!

⭐️ Also, this Saturday at 10am: VI Guide Coaching on Hove Lawns ⭐️

Open to all, this is the opportunity to take your first steps towards becoming a Guide Runner with plenty of support and encouragement. You’ll have the chance to learn from our VI runners and guides and experience what it’s like to run as both a guide and a visually impaired runner 🧡