Please sign this petition to stop Enniskillen parkrun losing its venue

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• Peter Collins ✭✭✭

  August 2016

  Mr Puffy wrote (see)

  Yes Peter but money flows in from sponsors presumably based on the number of people participating and its directors are paid and it employs staff. If you are a parish councillor volunteering in your spare time that is hard to accept. I'm certainly not going to try to defend the financial behaviour of the national trust, but I'll defend its right to refuse another commercial organisation the free use of its facilities if it wants to.

  It's not a commercial organisation in the sense of making profits and distrubuting them to shareholders. The guy who founded parkrun left a lucrative career to run an organisation that could have tanked. I know that the success of his idea caught him by surprise and he inevitably had to employ people or he couldn't have run it properly. I'm not disagreeing that a local authority is free to make decisions about its parks, but parkrun is not profit-making, thus not 'commercial'.

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• Hugh Jarce

  August 2016

  Just trying to bring this thread up to date regarding the bull from the NT.
  
  
  
  http://www.irishnews.com/news/2016/08/29/news/national-trust-tried-wanted-to-charge-fermanagh-runners-for-free-weekly-5km-event-670776/?param=ds12rif76F?param=ds12rif76F

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• LogicScience ✭✭✭

  August 2016

  it says everyone else who enters the grounds has to pay; only park runners didn't.

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• Hugh Jarce

  August 2016

  No one pays to enter the grounds before 10am. Anyway, the issues is the conflicting, (for litigation purposes I'll stick to 'conflicting') reasons why we're being asked to leave and roll over and tickle my belly attitude of parkrun UK.

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