Become a parkrun practice
parkrun UK teamed up with the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) to create the parkrun practices initiative.
The aim of this approach is to enable GPs and other healthcare practitioners to engage with their local parkrun community and start to prescribe physical activity to their patients by signposting them to a local event.
What is parkrun?
parkrun is a free, community event where you can walk, jog, run, volunteer or simply spectate. Every Saturday morning, parkrun hosts a 5k event open to everyone. On Sundays, junior parkrun offers a 2k event dedicated to 4-14 year olds and their families.
parkrun provides patients access to a low cost, community led physical activity opportunity and can be a great way of introducing patients back into physical activity, as well as encouraging participation in an activity to increase health, manage long-term conditions and improve wellbeing.
4 easy steps to becoming a parkun practice:
- Contact your local parkrun and have a chat with the volunteer team
- Register your surgery as a parkrun practice
- Start signposting patients and staff to parkrun
- Take part and have fun as a walker, jogger, runner or volunteer
The process to become a certified ‘parkrun practice’ is straightforward. Click here to register to become a parkrun practice.
Download the parkrun practices toolkit
The team at parkrun have pulled together a handy toolkit to support GP practices to become a parkrun practice.
Amy Story
Partnership Officer – Population Health
For more information, please email Amy.