## **Trustees’ Annual Report for 1 January 2025 to 31 December 2025** 

## **General** 

BFER (The Brecks Fen Edge & Rivers Landscape Partnership Scheme), which is funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, and who supported our 2024 events, is changing its name to Brecks Landscape partnership (BLP) from October 2025.  In 2025 they helped us with paying for the purchase of a signage and a new gazebo, plus another UKA Run Leader course (Hayley Smith has joined our Team of qualified Run Leaders). 

In its new incarnation, they will not be able to offer the same financial support as in previous years, but we met with them during the first part of 2026 to discuss this.  Brandon Town Council also provided a grant in return for us hosting a social run in their area, which was used to purchase new equipment e.g. tables. 

Our biggest expense in 2025 was for chip timing services, although Sublime Timing who currently work with us have agreed to keep their 2026 prices in line with the 2025 events.  Other costs, e.g. insurance and medals, continue to rise.  For this reason we reluctantly agreed that it would be necessary to increase our event prices, although not for under 16s. 

Sue Colledge was re-appointed at the 2025 AGM as a trustee for a further three year term, and to continue as Finance Director of the trust.  Sue Colledge and Sharon Nash to remain as signatories to the trust’s bank account.  It was agreed that the three trustee structure should remain the same, with Graham Wade standing for reappointment in 2026, and Sharon Nash in 2027. 

We organised twelve events in 2025:- repeats of the Thetford 5K Bunny Run; the Euston Estate Marathon/Half Marathon; the Mildenhall 2K/5K River Run; the Sapiston 5K/10K; the Breckland Forest 10K Run; and the Thetford 5K Santa Run, plus seven, free, social group runs.  These had been introduced in 2024 to encourage runners to take part in events that would be run at the speed of the slowest participants, being designed to help build confidence for those who weren’t sure about attempting longer distance events, or running in the dark with lights, and were extremely successful.  This is why we introduced more in 2025 as they brought in a variety of participants who we’d not met before, and encouraged new friendships.  We will continue this into 2026. 

Over the course of the year more than 100 volunteers were involved in many different ways at the various events, and we are extremely grateful to each and every one of them. 

We continue to collect used trainers to send on to JogOn, who repair and reuse or recycle them, which prevents them from going into landfill.  This has been well supported by our runners.  We are continuing to use mugs and beakers for refreshments, rather than relying on  single use plastic versions. 

## **Income** 

Participant numbers were steady in 2025 as we kept most prices at the same level as previous years, apart from the marathon and half marathon (which were both increased by £2).  With that and BFER’s support every event broke even, with a few bringing in a small profit which will be added to the equipment purchase pot. 

## **Expenditure** 

As referred to above, the cost of medals, insurance and chip timing have increased.  We continue to hire a van for the bigger events as the amount of equipment we now have (including all the new signage necessary for some events) is too much for volunteers to load into cars.  Our local van hire company continue to offer a discounted price for the van hire. 

This Report was submitted to, and agreed at, the trust’s 2026 AGM. 

Run Breckland, 1 Peter Drive, Thetford, IP24 2UG 



||Events|TOTAL|||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|Balance carried over on 31/12/2024||||£4,614.73|
|**Income**|General Office|Events|||
|Sales/Entry Fees|£0.00|£9,655.41|£9,655.41||
|Bank  Interest|£53.95|£0.00|£53.95||
|Donations|£0.00|£1,425.59|£1,425.59||
|Grants|£4,163.92|£0.00|£4,163.92||
|Repayment||£804.00|||
|Total Receipts per Department|**£4,217.87 **|**£11,885.00**|**£16,102.87**||
|**Expenditure**|||||
|Medals and Running Numbers|£0.00|£3,380.59|£3,380.59||
|Chip Timing|£0.00|£3,272.47|£3,272.47||
|Direct Event Costs|£0.00|£2,385.96|£2,385.96||
|Equipment Purchase|£1,343.23|£0.00|£1,343.23||
|Insurance|£661.02|£0.00|£661.02||
|General Office Costs|£323.05|£0.00|£323.05||
|Refunds|£0.00|£117.20|£117.20||
|Total Payments per Department|**£2,327.30**|**£9,156.22**|**£11,483.52**||
|Total Profit/Loss|||£4,619.35||
|Closing Balance on 31/12/2024||||£12,237.70|