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Glenn’s Marathon Training: Overcoming Setbacks with Smart Recovery!

February 06 , 2025
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Glenn's Training Update: Week 5 Training for a marathon comes with challenges, and unfortunately, Glenn faced a setback last weekend when a hamstring injury forced him to cut his planned 14K run short. Rather than pushing through, he took the time to carefully assess his injury, listen to ...

Glenn’s Training Update: Smashing the 10K and Pushing Forward!

January 30 , 2025
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Glenn's Training Update: Week 4 On Sunday, 26th January, Glenn took on the North London Hospice – Race the Neighbours 10K, finishing in an impressive 54 minutes and 26 seconds! Cheered on by family at the finish line, Glenn described the incredible feeling of a "runner’s high" after ...

My Parkrun Progress: A Journey Towards the Brighton Marathon

January 19 , 2025
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In this second blog post, we catch up with Glenn's training progress. Glenn has been working hard to prepare for the Brighton Marathon, starting with two Parkruns this month. He says: "My first Parkrun on 4th January took me 26 minutes and 38 seconds, and I placed 94th out ...

Glenn’s Training Update: Race the Neighbours 10k!

January 23 , 2025
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Glenn's Marathon Journey: Week 3 Update As Glenn continues his inspiring journey towards the Brighton Marathon, he shares the latest on his training: "This week's training has been going well. On Saturday 18th January, I ran a 5k, and my time was 23 minutes and 22 seconds 🙂. I ...

Glenn’s Marathon Mission: Raising Awareness for Chronic Pain

January 16 , 2025
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Hey, I’m Glenn, a volunteer for Pain Concern and someone living with chronic pain. On the 6th April I will be running the Brighton Marathon as part of my fundraising role for the charity! My mission is to raise awareness and funds to support others facing this challenging, ...

Volunteers’ Week 2023

May 31 , 2023
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2023 marks the 39th year of Volunteers’ Week (1-7 June), and Pain Concern joins thousands of charities and voluntary organisations in recognising the contribution volunteers make across the UK. Celebrate and Inspire With this year’s theme of ‘Celebrate and Inspire’ we hope to encourage people to be the change ...

Inspiring Volunteer Awards 2022 – Pain Concern Takes Home Awards

March 02 , 2022
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We are thrilled to announce that our dedicated Audio Transcription Volunteers Alisa, Fiona, Cara and Owen were recognised this year at the Inspiring Volunteer Awards held at Edinburgh City Chambers. They play a huge role here at Pain Concern making our podcasts more accessible and inclusive, particularly ...

Volunteers’ Week 2021

June 01 , 2021
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Each year, Volunteers’ Week acknowledges and celebrates the contributions of volunteers in the community. Pain Concern could not exist without the hard work and time put in by our dedicated team of volunteers. They are at the heart of everything we do from manning the helpline, to vital ...