Welcome to this month’s Member Spotlight, apologies for the lack of spotlight for August but so many people were on holiday I felt it would be good...
Quakers Member Spotlight September – Diane Lockhart
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Monthly Member Spotlight July – Sharon Carr
Welcome to the July edition of Quakers Member Spotlight, this month, we hear from our very own newly qualified LiRF, Sharon CARR. Sharon has...
Member Spotlight June 2024 – James Atkinson
Welcome to the June edition of Quakers Member Spotlight, this month, we hear from our very own quizmaster, James Atkinson who is now part of our...
Member Spotlight May 2024 – Carys Samuel
Welcome to May’s edition of Member Monthly Spotlight, Carys Samual who describes herself as a road runner, but loves the mud and “clart” of the...
Member Spotlight April 2024 Alexander Mathers
This month’s member spotlight is Alexander Mathers, who’s been a member for a few years now but due to work commitments has only recently been able...
Member Spotlight September 2020 – Andrew Dixon
How did you get into running and why? I’d done bits of running in the past, but I’d enter a 10k or the Great North Run, train a little bit, do the...
Quakers Member Spotlight, August 2020 – Helen Clark
How did you get into running and why? I’m not exactly sure of the reason I started running, I’d always enjoyed keeping fit and at that time there...
Quakers Member Spotlight, July 2020 – Lisa Bowerbank
How did you get into running and why? Early 2015 I decided that I needed to do something that was for me. I have tried many sports over the years,...
Quakers Member Spotlight, June 2020 – Kathryn Plant
As the current record holder for the fastest time to write a Quakers Member Spotlight, Kathryn tells us about the other aspects of her experience as...
Quakers Member Spotlight, June 2020 – Graham Park
In what is the Quaker’s 25th anniversary year, joint second- longest serving member and Quakers legend, Parky, tells us something of his own running...
Quakers Member Spotlight, May 2020 – Viv Hardwick
For those of you who remember the 70s, try and imagine the Bionic Man doing “It’s a Knockout”. Imagine no more; Ladies and Gentlemen I present, Viv...
Quakers member spotlight, May 2020 – Mary McIvor
She hates hills but her ambition is to run the Canadian Rockies; this week’s spotlight is on the enigma that is Mary McIvor. How did you get into...
Member Spotlight, May 2020 – Pip Rayner
Junior parkrun director, Pip Rayner, tells us what she loves about running and crucially which races have the best chocolate. How did you get into...
Quakers Member Spotlight April 2020 – Rebecca Howard
Rebecca listens out for Skylarks as she runs; surely that’s how we were meant to do it. She has also taken a revolutionary approach to the member...
Quakers Member Spotlight, April 2020 – Phil Rutter
When he’s not running across the moors with his eyelids frozen shut he’s ski-ing down Roseberry Topping without skis. This week the spotlight falls...
Member Spotlight April 2020 – Peter Rowley OBE
Not many runners can claim to have crossed the finish line ahead of Usain Bolt and Mo Farah but that’s not why he got the OBE. How did you get into...
Quakers Member Spotlight, April 2020 – Lin Gossage
Many people give up running by their mid-50s; Lin Gossage was just getting started. How did you get into running and why? In 2002 on my 55th...
Member Spotlight Lee Morris
“From goal post to lead coach” – now that would make a great title for an autobiography. Lee Morris gives us a taster. 1. How did you get into...
Member Spotlight March 2020 – Phil Clarke
He’s living proof, were it needed, that Southerners aren’t soft but even so his first run “Up North” was grim. How did you come to join Quakers? I...
Member Spotlight February 2020 – Ian Bond
Unfortunately neither the first in line (nor the first, second, third and fourth reserves) were able to get their Member Spotlight finished in time...
Quakers Member Spotlight, January 2020 – Michael King
He may not have the fastest legs in the club but I’ll wager that he has the largest lungs. If you’ve ever heard singing coming from the home...
Member Spotlight – December 2019 – Emma Joyeux
1. How did you get into running and why? Apart from running (and I use that term very loosely) up and down a hockey pitch for over 15 years, I had...
Member Spotlight November 2019 – Nicola Wells
Not running on a Sunday and only running three times a week didn’t do Eric Liddle any harm. Our very own Chariot of Fire, Nicola Wells, doesn’t do...
Member Spotlight, October 2019 – Gareth Kyle
How do you turn a top notch sprinter into someone who can run a marathon? Gareth Kyle describes his progress so far. 1. How did you get into running...
Member Spotlight, September 2019 – Julie Bell
I’ve heard of lots of reasons for not doing a run, but missing parkrun because of a zombie! Julie Bell explains. 1. How did you get into running and...