Bryanston youth lead recreational parkrun

The Bryanston-East Community Forum Parkrun showed full faith in their youth on June 15, when they were entrusted with leading the event’s volunteer roster. The community’s youth stepped up in managing the morning’s parkrun, filling all the positions from volunteer to run director.

“I’ve been doing this parkrun since the time when my mom dragged me here, about six years ago,” said the occasion’s run director, Kate Goulding (17). “The main run director, Avi Naidoo, suggested an all-youth volunteer team for Youth Day, and now we’re here.”

She was joined at the finishing mark by fellow volunteers Blake Whitman (13), and Cameron Wheeler (17) who, also, briefly spoke about how they had first become involved with parkrun.

Blake recalled how he had only run a single race thus far, and spoke of what inspired him to participate in the event.

“I decided to help out by taking the tokens from people after the race: I like helping the community very much.”

Cameron, who is also a member of the Johannesburg Junior City Council, said that his love for running is what inspired him to volunteer at the event.

“I live along the route, so, on the weekend, I’d see parkrun often – people coming past,” Cameron said. “That’s how I got into the volunteering system. I like to help out, and volunteer where I can.”

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