Dave Kelly
Appearances
The Planet Reigate Podcast
54: Harlequin latest news and reaction, our RunReigate preview… and more
Nice to see you again, Peter. When do you start setting up? It's tomorrow, Friday or Saturday? Today. We've started setting up today. We've been marking out our event village. We are well known for our big event village, which is an all-day celebration of food, fun, fitness, family. It's for everybody. All the F-words that we can say. Exactly. So we have our biggest event village yet.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
54: Harlequin latest news and reaction, our RunReigate preview… and more
It's incredible that just the number of people parts of the community that want to be at this event. From the charities, to all of our partners and sponsors, to local businesses that want to be here. All kinds of fantastic, interesting people that want to be in the Event Village. We've got very good numbers this year, Pete. Let's say we've got already 4,000 signed up.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
54: Harlequin latest news and reaction, our RunReigate preview… and more
We'll get more by the time Sunday comes. So it's a strong run, Reigate. It'll be very busy. You know, you get three or four times that number of people coming along, supporting family, friends. And all about community.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
54: Harlequin latest news and reaction, our RunReigate preview… and more
Correct. Pete, you know this. We've always been about community. This event is all about community and charity. We're very proud. to strongly support local charities every year, and we like the local charities. You know, the Lucy Rayner Foundation, the Renewed Hope Trust, a homeless charity.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
54: Harlequin latest news and reaction, our RunReigate preview… and more
You'd hardly believe that there are as many homeless people in Reigate and around that there are, but it's true, there are.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
54: Harlequin latest news and reaction, our RunReigate preview… and more
We love supporting our local charities... ...even our local branch of Smartens... ...have a big team running... ...here on Sunday... ...Stripey Stork... ...all of the local charities... ...this event is all about getting... ...our community involved... ...really from the four year olds... ...that run in the kids race.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
54: Harlequin latest news and reaction, our RunReigate preview… and more
When we say bad... There's rain predicted for the weekend. We've had rain before. We've been very lucky in 11 years of doing Run Roygate. Really most years we've had lovely weather. This year it's looking like rain, but Pete, you never know. This might blow over by Sunday. The forecasters have often been wrong. And people should be obviously prepared for that.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
54: Harlequin latest news and reaction, our RunReigate preview… and more
forecast they can change their shoes they can change what they're wearing or who's going to be supporting them they can take their time and things like that running in the rain is quite good fun it throws a different element at it we're closing the roads we have hundreds of marshals here and out on the route no matter what the weather's doing we will be safe we will have a fantastic event if you're running you're running hail rain or shine or snow you're gonna have a great time look there's plenty of gazebos and marquees here there's plenty of cover
The Planet Reigate Podcast
54: Harlequin latest news and reaction, our RunReigate preview… and more
There's plenty of food. There's plenty of shelter. We'll all be fine.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
54: Harlequin latest news and reaction, our RunReigate preview… and more
Yeah, absolutely. And there are a lot of people running for charity, Peter. Lucy Rayner Foundation, at last count, had over 70 runners in those fabulous red t-shirts that say Running Off Depression. You know, the work that they do in our community, particularly amongst young people with mental health issues and suicidal thoughts, is just fantastic.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
54: Harlequin latest news and reaction, our RunReigate preview… and more
I am very proud to support local charities like that at Run Rygate. Very proud.
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54: Harlequin latest news and reaction, our RunReigate preview… and more
Peter, it's a combination of this fantastic community that we have. Everybody comes out, everybody kind of looks after each other. We are blessed, of course, with this park, Peter. We are spoilt. Priory Park in Reigate is spectacular. We have this iconic priory building that we're looking at right now for our start and finish line. Local, pretty country roads in and around Reigate to run on.
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54: Harlequin latest news and reaction, our RunReigate preview… and more
That we close, so it's all very safe. All the schools get involved. We have 1,200 kids running again on Sunday. It is sold out yet again. And they come from over 60 local schools. And all of those schools support us as well. We do lots of school assemblies, we talk to all the kids and we get involved. So it's not just the charities, it's the schools.
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54: Harlequin latest news and reaction, our RunReigate preview… and more
Almost every shop, restaurant and bar in Roygate is now involved in our Medal Madness campaign. And that is where you can go in with your medal, usually for a couple of weeks after the event and get a good deal from that shop. So it's just wonderful. Sweaty Betty are doing 30% off. Bills this year have come on with a free burger if you go in with your medal.
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54: Harlequin latest news and reaction, our RunReigate preview… and more
Wagamama are giving you a free side portion of food. Some of the bars are giving you a 50% off or a free drink. The coffee shops are giving free coffees. Most of the shops in town are involved in this now. It's great because that supports our local traders. It means that they want to talk about this event because they get the footfall from it.
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54: Harlequin latest news and reaction, our RunReigate preview… and more
And our runners are getting these wonderful deals that they wouldn't get, all for just going in with their medal. Fitness was one of the F's that you mentioned a little bit earlier on. Peter, I make no apologies for getting anybody and everybody, but particularly kids, into regular aerobic exercise because it's so important physically and mentally for everybody.
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54: Harlequin latest news and reaction, our RunReigate preview… and more
Burning those calories, keeping your brain ticking over, helping you sleep. helping you just perform better and think better, it's got so many pluses. So I love actively getting everybody involved in this event because I know it's good for them. It's not just on the day, it's all the training that they do for it. It's a good thing.
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54: Harlequin latest news and reaction, our RunReigate preview… and more
I've always wanted to put Priory School, this lovely building that everybody knows, I've always wanted to put it on the medal. And it's a real feature of the medal this year. It's our Run Rygate Blue, but it's really featuring the school on the medal. And of course, our wonderful headline sponsors, Andrews. And I've just got to say a big thank you to them because... This is their third year.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
54: Harlequin latest news and reaction, our RunReigate preview… and more
They're very involved with us and very engaged. They're a charity themselves.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
54: Harlequin latest news and reaction, our RunReigate preview… and more
They are. How they're set up. Correct. But they're also unlike any sponsor we've ever had before. Because they're a charity themselves. And that really resonates very strongly with us. So we love it, you know. So people have been going into their store all of last week.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
54: Harlequin latest news and reaction, our RunReigate preview… and more
And this week into Simply Sports, picking up their race numbers and their T-shirts for the kids and their finishers T-shirts and all of that. So, yeah, everyone's involved. It's great.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
54: Harlequin latest news and reaction, our RunReigate preview… and more
Most of all, good luck on Sunday with your run, whether you're doing the 5K, the 10K, the half marathon, or indeed the kids' races. Good luck. Please come on Sunday. Don't worry about the weather. Listen, we live in this part of the world. We're all used to a bit of rain. If it's raining on Sunday, so be it. Come down. You're going to have a fabulous time anyway.
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54: Harlequin latest news and reaction, our RunReigate preview… and more
Get out there and run and earn that lovely medal, and I guarantee you'll have a good time no matter what.
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54: Harlequin latest news and reaction, our RunReigate preview… and more
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The Planet Reigate Podcast
41: The Light’s first birthday, a look back at Reigate’s Summer Festival and Horley carnival… and more.
And Dave, tell me about the response that you've had. It was lovely, it was really nice. I think it was pretty much full, everyone was sort of enjoying it, got some good applause. There's so much music going on around the town, it's brilliant. Everywhere you go there's loads of stuff going on, so... What do you make of the end of the festival? How much have you got to see? Quite a lot.
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41: The Light’s first birthday, a look back at Reigate’s Summer Festival and Horley carnival… and more.
There's still quite a lot to go, but hopefully we'll get round and see some more of it, you know? I mean, it kind of goes to what we do, which is about community and musicians and trying to keep music live and keep real people doing it and not AI and algorithms and keep the little clubs and little venues open and that's how all music...
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41: The Light’s first birthday, a look back at Reigate’s Summer Festival and Horley carnival… and more.
You have to comment on it, you know, and you can only comment on it from your perspective. But it doesn't matter how far the comment goes. You have to at least try because if you don't say anything.
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41: The Light’s first birthday, a look back at Reigate’s Summer Festival and Horley carnival… and more.
no one hears it just bring people's attention to these things in a way that hopefully gets them they think that's a nice tune but then actually listen to it and go actually it's about something like a nice breezy pop song and then slip a message in at the side you know and non-aggressive yeah absolutely absolutely yeah you've got to do it non-aggressively how tempted you might be to throw eggs you can't throw songs you've got to throw songs instead
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41: The Light’s first birthday, a look back at Reigate’s Summer Festival and Horley carnival… and more.
Well, we actually have one of the songs on our set that Ian wrote. It was about that, wasn't it? There was someone in our local team, very much like Tim...
The Planet Reigate Podcast
41: The Light’s first birthday, a look back at Reigate’s Summer Festival and Horley carnival… and more.
who died recently the song has come to sort of honour him and the memory of the people who he had to have a linchpin everything revolves around and those people are so important people like Tim these scenes don't happen without people like that who are committed to doing it they may not even play instruments but they love music enough and they're committed to the whole scene of getting people together and putting on events quite often with very little play if any and a lot of their time and those are the people that it's very important like that's what all it all builds from these little things