Market Harborough junior parkrun

The nearest station is Market Harborough, served by East Midlands Trains services from Derby, Nottingham, Leicester and London St Pancras.
Market Harborough is served by a number of bus services including X3 from Leicester via Great Glen and KIbworth, 18 from Kettering, 44 from Fleckney and Foxton, 58 from Lutterworth and Hinckley, 67 from Corby and Gretton, X7 from Northampton and the Centrebus County Connect service from surrounding areas.

The park can be accessed on foot from the town centre from the Commons car park, via Coventry Road or Welland Park Road.
From the train station it is less than 1 mile. Leave the station and bear right and slightly downhill to follow the vehicle access road. Continue west along Rockingham Road. Turn left onto Kettering Road. Turn left then immediately right onto Welland Park Road. The park is on the right hand side just after the Welland Park Academy.
From the main bus station, continue SE uphill along Northampton Road. Turn right onto Welland Park Road. The park is located on the right side after the school.

Market Harborough is well signposted from the A6 in both directions. Postcode for satnav is LE16 9DR.
From the M1, leave at J20 Lutterworth and follow signs for Market Harborough along the A4304. Welland Park is on the right hand side shortly before the town centre.
From the A14, leave at the Kelmarsh junction, A508, and turn left on Welland Park Road shortly before the town centre.

There are two small car parks, located on the park grounds. One is accessed via Welland Park Road and the other via Farndon Road. Both are free but have very limited spaces.
The Commons car park is a much larger Pay and Display car park. It can be accessed via the A4304. It is then a 2 minute walk through the park to the café.

Every week we grab a post-parkrun coffee: The Café, Welland Park. Please come and join us!

Every week we grab a post parkrun coffee in The Café, Welland Park - please come and join us!

Market Harborough junior parkrun is a fun, free event organised by volunteers for the benefit of everyone. To make the event as safe as possible, participants, spectators and volunteers are asked to take note of the following rules and guidelines:

• Whilst parkrun fully accepts its duty of care and will do everything it can to minimise risk of injury and harm to all participants whilst at parkrun events, it is parent/guardians who ultimately have responsibility for the welfare of their children.
• It is not mandatory for a parent/guardian to participate in junior parkruns, but children under the age of 11 must be accompanied to/from the event by a responsible adult, and the responsible adult must remain in attendance for the duration of the event.
• junior events are open and inclusive. Disabled people may participate wherever it is safe for them to do so. The event team can provide disabled participants with course information in order that the participant (or their parent/guardian) can make an informed decision about their safe participation.
• Whilst more competitive children can use junior parkruns to test themselves against their own time, and against others, participation should ultimately be for fun, and we urge all parents/guardians/volunteers not to put children under undue pressure to perform.
• junior parkruns are running, jogging and walking events, and the use of children’s scooters, balance bikes, trikes or cycles is prohibited.
• Slower runners are encouraged to seed themselves, by starting towards the back of the group especially if an adult is accompanying them.
• junior parkruns are timed events. Only those aged between 4 to 14 years old completing the course themselves will be given a result. ​
• Exceptions to this rule are subject to the discretion of parkrun head office. Examples include those over 14 with special educational needs (SEN) or those with a registered disability, for whom social interaction and physical activity may be difficult but important.
• A strict ‘no barcode no result’ policy will be enforced.
• Buggies are allowed, subject to course conditions, but only if the adult pushing the buggy is accompanying a junior parkrunner. Adults with buggies are urged to position themselves appropriately for the safety and enjoyment of all.
• With the exception of assistance dogs, dogs are not allowed to accompany walkers, joggers, runners or volunteers at junior parkrun events.
• Take care on uneven surfaces – whether on grass or on tarmac. Watch out for cyclists, other participants, pedestrians, children, dogs, wildlife, park animals, vehicles, park maintenance work, falling branches, bollards, posts and other obstacles around the course.
• Spectators should keep clear of participants on the course and keep control of any children and dogs.
• Participants should take care near roads and car parks, congregate away from the cars and be careful if driving to/from the event.
• Photography or filming is likely to take place at junior parkrun events. Please see our photos page for more details.
• Lyme Disease is a bacterial infection spread to humans by infected ticks. Consider protecting yourself by wearing repellent when at parkrun events in grassy or wooded areas. See lymediseaseuk.com for further details.

Please consider helping the event by volunteering - this event survives only because of your generosity. Please visit the volunteer page for more information.

All parkrun events are organised by volunteers - email marketharboroughjuniors@parkrun.com to help.

parkrun is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and adults at risk. For our full safeguarding processes and policies please see our Safeguarding Hub.

To report a safeguarding concern please email safeguarding@parkrun.com.