Category Archives: News

News – BEESLEY MISSES OUT ON RIO DREAM

KP Events ambassador Meghan Beesley has sustained an injury that means she’ll miss out on the medal hopes at the 400m hurdles in Rio in August. After surgery she’ll recuperate through the summer, visit us at Tamworth 10k on Sunday October 9th and then plan for a strong track season in 2017 where the World Championship will be… Read More »

Write up – 2nd May 2016 The World’s Shortest Fun Run World Record Attempt

WORLD’S SHORTEST FUN RUN FUN FEAST!! They came from far and wide, from Kansas USA and Cornwall and from Lichfield, Birmingham and Tamworth but mainly Burntwood in Staffordshire. Why? The 2nd WORLD’S SHORTEST FUN RUN and it attracted hundreds to the UK’s smallest park, Prince’s Park in Burntwood today to help raise money for the local WeLoveLichfield charity… Read More »

THE KP KLUB – Coming soon

Set for an official launch on or around the THE LICHFIELD HALF MARATHON on Sunday May 1st the KP Klub is an original membership offer to everybody who either takes part in one of our events and/or is a KP Events enewsletter subscriber. From the 1st May 2016, you can join the KP Klub and benefit from a… Read More »

New KP Events Ambassador – Meghan Beesley

GB international 400m hurdler Meghan Beesley will become a KP Events Ambassador in Olympic Year 2016. Megan is a GB number 2 to Perri Shakes-Drayton and ran in World Championships in Beijing this year. We’re very pleased to have Meghan Beesley as an Ambassador and she’ll make personal appearances at 3 of our events in 2016 starting off… Read More »

Photos – The Big G Challenge

The 2nd Big G Challenge in honour of the late Geraldine Chapman was a big success on Saturday June 13th and her friends at KP Events were very happy to play a small part in making the day go so well. Well done all concerned.

News – The Worlds Shortest Fun Run Challenge Set

The Virgin Active World’s Shortest Fun Run World Record Attempt held today (Monday May 6th) around the UK’s smallest park – Princes Park in Burntwood, attracted close to 400 people to take part and complete the 55 strides around the circumference in times as quickly as 7 seconds and as slow as 56 seconds, all in aid of… Read More »