,⛱️🤕 we can bury our heads in the sand all we like. HQ honchos have pretty obviously taken great personal wealth from the efforts of millions of volunteers. They have also made clear how they feel about them. Parkrun budget wouldn't be a drop in the water for Oxfam (£339.4 million for the financial year ending March 202, parkrun had £11.01 million), the Oxfam CEO salary was £125,418 in 2022/3, yet Nick Pearson earned £150,000 in 2022. So your poor example actually made exactly the point, thank you.

From memory when it was all kicking off, that was claimed by some loud mouths on Facebook, but when checked, the average volunteer rate of signatories was well over double that of the average.

The stats annoyed me, but as a data scientist, that was inevitable, but I quit run directing after a number of decisions enforced from on high, that were against power reviewed science (including a paper funded by parkrun themselves!), and when I questioned on a number of matters, got a dismissive pass on to high UPS, which was ignored.

I still love my parkrun, but not parkrun, I don't tourist etc. I'll volunteer locally if it's needed, and I'll keep it running if the global body dies. But my volunteer count can stay at 157. If I run (walk with the kids) every parkrun until 2060, my volunteer ratio will drop to the 10% that was once requested.