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Post by syg on Apr 12, 2016 17:57:54 GMT
Why don't the club start charging any resident of little stoke for walking outside the ground? Seems perfectly acceptable going by the councillor from little stoke on the news just now.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2016 18:02:11 GMT
Can you elaborate? Local news has been off my radar for a while now.
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Post by Henbury Gas on Apr 12, 2016 18:09:51 GMT
Why don't the club start charging any resident of little stoke for walking outside the ground? Seems perfectly acceptable going by the councillor from little stoke on the news just now. Now there's me thinking my £100+ per month Rates bill helped towards paying for the parks...... so it must be going on other important projects - like rehousing immigrants in the county
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Post by syg on Apr 12, 2016 18:48:52 GMT
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Post by asparagas on Apr 12, 2016 20:53:41 GMT
Why don't the club start charging any resident of little stoke for walking outside the ground? Seems perfectly acceptable going by the councillor from little stoke on the news just now. Hey, I live in Little Stoke and don't agree with the charge to the Parkrunners I think it ludicrous, but the local council have been good recently and are helping the local team up there by supporting them to improve facilities so that they can apply for the County League. I wouldn't favour a charge to walk around the mem as a paying customers. UTG
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Post by syg on Apr 12, 2016 21:24:26 GMT
Why don't the club start charging any resident of little stoke for walking outside the ground? Seems perfectly acceptable going by the councillor from little stoke on the news just now. Hey, I live in Little Stoke and don't agree with the charge to the Parkrunners I think it ludicrous, but the local council have been good recently and are helping the local team up there by supporting them to improve facilities so that they can apply for the County League. I wouldn't favour a charge to walk around the mem as a paying customers. UTG Hi. It was tongue in cheek, but Im sure u got the point. They've voted to do it and now there's going to be an impromptu run at 9 on sat at the park!!!!
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Post by asparagas on Apr 12, 2016 21:50:08 GMT
Hey, I live in Little Stoke and don't agree with the charge to the Parkrunners I think it ludicrous, but the local council have been good recently and are helping the local team up there by supporting them to improve facilities so that they can apply for the County League. I wouldn't favour a charge to walk around the mem as a paying customers. UTG Hi. It was tongue in cheek, but Im sure u got the point. They've voted to do it and now there's going to be an impromptu run at 9 on sat at the park!!!! I am disappointed with the decision though considering this is the only place in the world to do this. The area was once considered as a potential site for a rovers ground if I remember rightly.
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Post by gregsy on Apr 13, 2016 8:00:44 GMT
this actually made the national news on bbc this morning, along with will and kate's visit to a safari park, and a feature on national insect week....
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Post by Antonio Fargas on Apr 13, 2016 8:29:01 GMT
this actually made the national news on bbc this morning, along with will and kate's visit to a safari park, and a feature on national insect week.... We truly live in interesting times.
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Post by amgas on Apr 13, 2016 12:14:24 GMT
Lets remember there is no charge to run in this park, only a charge for an organised group who have paid directors and receive money from sponsors to turn up with 300 people and run an event, perhaps to the detriment of other local people who want to use the park.
Kids football teams have to pay councils for pitches in parks - are people moaning about that or is it just accepted ?
These people are clearly pretty organised and I wonder if the Parkrun people happily had a fight over this on purpose as the free advertising they got has done them no harm at all. I noticed they had tabards, equipment etc etc how do they pay for that or the web hosting for their website or perhaps more importantly their directors salaries ?
The parish council suggested they applied to South Glos for a grant, they refused - I wonder why - did they prefer the publicity they got ?
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Post by Staffordshire Gas on Apr 13, 2016 17:26:55 GMT
Good to see Rover's away Yellow shirt being worn on the item relating to this story on BBC National news just'.Y-E-L-L-O-W, Y-E-L-L-O-W.'
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Post by long john silver on Apr 13, 2016 21:52:51 GMT
just the world we live in now unfortunately. last week they were taking money off of vulnerable and disabled people this week they want to charge people to run through a park. they got to find the money for their next pay rise somewhere.
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Post by Henbury Gas on Apr 14, 2016 2:05:26 GMT
let them run for free, but get them to sign a disclaimer that states they are not insured and they cannot use the toilet facility...
That should cut them down by 80%
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Post by Congas on Apr 14, 2016 7:07:28 GMT
If you play football in the park for a club then you have to pay subs which go towards the upkeep of the facilities you're using. This isn't about individual jogging in the park but jogging clubs. There's a big difference. I don't know the exact figure, but it appears to be hundreds of people being asked to pay a sub of a quid each for using the facilities. Seems fair to me. Nothing is ever free, somebody somewhere is paying. More to the point, how much of this is cheap Tory bashing?
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Post by grayraydon on Apr 14, 2016 9:26:41 GMT
If you play football in the park for a club then you have to pay subs which go towards the upkeep of the facilities you're using. This isn't about individual jogging in the park but jogging clubs. There's a big difference. I don't know the exact figure, but it appears to be hundreds of people being asked to pay a sub of a quid each for using the facilities. Seems fair to me. Nothing is ever free, somebody somewhere is paying. More to the point, how much of this is cheap Tory bashing? But if you're playing football then you are using changing rooms, showers, pitches need to be marked out, goalposts and nets stored, as far as I'm aware running just uses a path, not really comparable.
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Post by Henbury Gas on Apr 14, 2016 10:03:57 GMT
If you play football in the park for a club then you have to pay subs which go towards the upkeep of the facilities you're using. This isn't about individual jogging in the park but jogging clubs. There's a big difference. I don't know the exact figure, but it appears to be hundreds of people being asked to pay a sub of a quid each for using the facilities. Seems fair to me. Nothing is ever free, somebody somewhere is paying. More to the point, how much of this is cheap Tory bashing? But if you're playing football then you are using changing rooms, showers, pitches need to be marked out, goalposts and nets stored, as far as I'm aware running just uses a path, not really comparable. don't forget the public liability insurance is required for these clubs as well.... we can't have them tripping on pot holes in the path can we
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Post by philbemmygas on Apr 14, 2016 11:45:13 GMT
The whole idea of the "park run" idea is for the masses to get fit & cut down on obesity/diabetes etc.
The Government/Health Service is paying out millions towards the same ideology, a bit of common sense is required here. As a runner myself when I enter a race there is normally a disclaimer towards accidents happening, not done any of the local park runs so not sure on what there T's & C's are.
As Nick Rose said last night we pay taxes, some of which goes to Local authorities towards upkeep of public spaces. A modicum of common sense should have been used throughout this whole sorry affair, the excuse that 75% of the runners are not local to Little Stoke doesn't mean they don't contribute to the local economy (shops etc)
Anyway bigger fish to fry, lets be having these six fingered mother fu*kers from yeovile on Saturday
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Post by baggins on Apr 14, 2016 11:54:23 GMT
The whole idea of the "park run" idea is for the masses to get fit & cut down on obesity/diabetes etc. The Government/Health Service is paying out millions towards the same ideology, a bit of common sense is required here. As a runner myself when I enter a race there is normally a disclaimer towards accidents happening, not done any of the local park runs so not sure on what there T's & C's are. As Nick Rose said last night we pay taxes, some of which goes to Local authorities towards upkeep of public spaces. A modicum of common sense should have been used throughout this whole sorry affair, the excuse that 75% of the runners are not local to Little Stoke doesn't mean they don't contribute to the local economy (shops etc) Anyway bigger fish to fry, lets be having these six fingered mother fu*kers from yeovile on Saturday You allowed to say six fingered on here?
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Post by amgas on Apr 14, 2016 14:01:01 GMT
Really my experience of kids football is often no changing rooms or showers, take them home in the car covered in mud, yes there are goal posts and nets but half the time you have to put them out yourself, guess they mark out pitches and cut the grass but often not much more. Bottom line is we can all go for a free kick about in the park, but once it becomes an organised club we have to pay - no different for these people.
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Post by grayraydon on Apr 14, 2016 15:54:12 GMT
Really my experience of kids football is often no changing rooms or showers, take them home in the car covered in mud, yes there are goal posts and nets but half the time you have to put them out yourself, guess they mark out pitches and cut the grass but often not much more. Bottom line is we can all go for a free kick about in the park, but once it becomes an organised club we have to pay - no different for these people. But you've said yourself that they mark out the pitches and cut the grass, and have storage for the posts and nets someone has to get paid to do this, the runners get none of this done, they need no external help at all from the council
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