The club is saddened to learn of the passing of Kitty Garnett on the 22nd January 2025 in Lytham.
Kitty’s funeral will be held at Lytham Crematorium on the 19th February at 1.15pm. All would be most welcome.
Further information can be provided by her niece Carol Garnett by email at fuzzycat60@hotmail.com
Below is the list of award winners who will be presented with their awards at the presentation evening on Friday 21st March 2025. This list will be updated when more competitions have been finalised.
Please keep checking for updates (02/03/2025)
Lisa Ellis, Irene Roche, Karin Goss, Kirstie Millar, Sarah Jane Ashworth, Helen Harrison, Kathryn Miller, Anne Daykin, Barbara Savage, Jenna Gardner, Kim Kennedy, Katy Thompson, Linda Lord, Matilda Burnie, Julia Rushton, Sue Burns, Rachel Gilmore, Alison Dugdale, Sarah Thomas, Samantha Clayton, Clare Jackson.
Adam Wale, Paul Turnock, Chris Funnell, John Roche, Robert Hirst, Peter Mackrell, Calum Holmes, Scott Cunliffe, Andrew Webster, Michael Almond, Will Herman, Mark Whittaker, Mick Proctor, Neil Hardiman, Mark Nutter, Andrew Priory, Carl Carey, Richard Bellaries, Biruk Aduna Kebede, Matthew Heap, Dave Motley, Jonathon Ratcliffe, Gareth Berry.
Inn on the Wharf
Friday 21st March 2025
Start Time 7.30pm
Following on from last years successful evening, the club invites you to come together to celebrate your fellow club members achievements.
Cost of the tickets including food is £10 per person.
Food options are
a) Potato pie with peas
b) Cheese and Onion pie & peas
c) Ham/Chicken Salad (gluten free)
How to book:
Select your choice of food and advise by email to Helen Harrison
helenharrison5@gmail.com
(Please do not post on Facebook)
A reply to confirm will be sent stating method of payment.
Looking forward to seeing you all there for a great time.
The 2025 Club Presentation Evening will be held at the
Inn on the Wharf
Friday 21st March 2025
Start Time 7.30pm
Following on from last years successful evening, the club invites you to come together to celebrate your fellow club members achievements.
Cost of the tickets including food is £10 per person.
Food options are
a) Potato pie with peas
b) Cheese and Onion pie & peas
c) Ham/Chicken Salad (gluten free)
How to book:
Select your choice of food and advise by email to Helen Harrison
helenharrison5@gmail.com
(Please do not post on Facebook)
A reply to confirm will be sent stating method of payment.
Looking forward to seeing you all there for a great time.
It is with great sadness that we inform you that club president David Scott sadly passed away on the afternoon of Friday 3rd January 2025.
Sincere condolences to David’s wife Jill and all their family and friends at this very sad time.
Funeral arrangements will be posted as soon as we know.
RIP EL PRESIDENTE
The committee would like to formally notify you that the club AGM meeting will be held on Monday 4th November at 8.00pm.
VENUE: The Thornton Arms, Burnley.
The AGM is a great opportunity for all members to attend and we would like to encourage you to come along, it’s not just a formality but an opportunity to hear from your club and get involved.
There will be a option to join the meeting on the online Zoom link for those unable to attend face to face.
If you are wanting to attend the AGM, please email me: judith.claytonharriers@gmail.com and I will email you the AGM pack nearer the time.
Sadly, John died on Friday morning, 12 April, aged 86. He was an important member of the club, ( see a recent article about him) a Committee member and Secretary for a number of years. I had known him since 1965 and run with him on some epic adventures; the Bob Graham Round, Lakes 3,000 footers, Lakes County Tops and the Welsh 3,000 footers. On the last one we left Burnley at 2.00am and returned at 2.00am the next day. He was a leading organiser of the Clayton team that ran the first ever Pennine Way Relay. He competed in all the running disciplines for many years and eventually bacame an Associate Member as he ran less and walked more, completeing the Scottish Munros twice.
David Scott.
By David Scott – Club President
John Haworth.
A past prominent member, John is now in a care home in South Wales near where Pat’s family live, suffering from severe dementia. He could sense this approaching which is why they moved from Hellifield. For those few members who knew John, and the many who never did, John is the main reason why Clayton-le-Moors Harriers still exists.
In the late 1960’s a ‘Special General Meeting’ was called because a significant group of some of our best runners wanted to join Blackburn Harriers and for the two clubs to be amalgamated, meaning the Clayton club name would be no more. A lot of discussion, quite heated at times, took place and at one moment it looked as though the ‘breakaway group’ would win. However, at that moment John stood up, removed a large piece of white paper from his jacket pocket and proceeded to list all the reasons why Clayton should still exist. This speech changed the balance of the meeting, and although when the votes were counted it was a close run thing, the ‘Remainers’ won the day, the ‘Breakaways’ lost. They all soon resigned and joined Blackburn
The following members have won awards for their participation in the various club competitions in 2023-24.
Awards will be presented to you at the upcoming Social Evening on Friday 22nd March 2024 at The Inn on the Wharf.
The committee hopes you will be able to attend so we can all celebrate your achievements.
Please contact John Roche at rochejohn8@hotmail.com if you are planning on attending.
Alison Dugdale, Vicky Heys, Lisa Ellis, Irene Roche, Helen Harrison, Christine Leathley, Karin Goss, Julia Rushton, Nicola Moynihan, Helana White, Kim Kennedy, Rachel Gilmore, Katy Thompson, Susan allen, Kathryn Miller, Nina Kewin, Michael Almond, Phillip Naylor, Adam Wale, Scott Cunliffe, David Scott, Jonny Hall, Martin Connolly, Chris Funnell, William Walker, Peter Mackrell, Richard Stevenson, David Motley, John Roche, Ben Nield, Ralph Baines, Andrew Webster, Mick Proctor, Dom Howell.
NOMINATIONS…
It’s that time of year again when we ask you to nominate your fellow club members for the Annual Club Awards.
There are 6 trophies up for grabs:
* Outstanding ladies performance
* Outstanding men’s performance
* Outstanding ladies (over 50) performance
* Outstanding men’s (over 50) performance
* Most promising newcomer
* Most improved runner
Nominations must be for a single performance by a senior member (aged 18+, or 50+ in the case of the V50 awards) and must have achieved in 2023. In some cases age and/or ability can be taken into consideration.
Please read the criteria on the club website before making your nominations.
Senior Annual Awards – Clayton-le-Moors Harriers (claytonlemoors.org.uk)
Nominations should be sent to me by email (judith.claytonharriers@gmail.com) or by the contact page on the club website. Nominations must be sent by 28th February 2024
The winners will be announced at the Awards Presentation evening on Friday 22nd March 2024.
Looking forward to receiving your nominations.
Judith
Secretary.
UPDATE !!!!!! 30/01/2024
Booking information.
Cost of ticket including food is £10 per person.
Food options:
b) Cheese & Onion pie & peas
c) Gluten free (Ham/Chicken) salad.
How to book:
Select your choice of food and advise by either email
rochejohn8@hotmail.com
or messenger
(Please do not post on Facebook).
A reply to confirm will be sent stating method of payment.
DEADLINE IS FRI 8TH MARCH.
Thankyou
Dear Members
Amongst the main things Covid inflicted on people, was the effect it had on Clayton Harriers. One of the saddest things was the cancellation of Presentation Evenings and social events. Numbers of runners/members in Fell, Road and Cross Country races were greatly reduced and from my point of view, I never saw some members for months. This year on Friday 22 March at the Inn on the Wharf we are hoping to bring together those members who no longer run (dare I say, old like me) with our new fast younger members. We envisage this as ‘Stars of the Past’ meeting ‘Stars of the Present (and future)’. I did start a list of names which grew rather long and then I worried that I might miss someone out!!!! So please try to attend if you can, even though you may not have won an award, so that we can return to the club spirit of yesteryear, pre-Covid.
Please could you let John Roche know if you are attending rochejohn8@hotmail.com
Hope to see many of you there. Best wishes for an injury free year to everyone.
David Scott ‘El Presidente