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Motion · S6M-11736 · 20 Dec 2023

HMP Grampian Run Club Receives Crucial Funding

Lodged by Audrey Nicoll Standard Motion 24 supporters

The motion

That the Parliament celebrates Runforever, which is a non-profit community organisation founded by Paolo Maccagno and Mark Hope that promotes a running club within HMP and YOI Grampian, for receiving crucial funding towards ongoing costs from Athletics Trust Scotland and The Allen Lane Foundation, and private donations through the International Futures Forum (IFF); considers that Runforever benefits prisoners’ overall health and wellbeing by proposing and delivering projects based on marathon running and the Feldenkrais Method, which, it understands, focuses on awareness through movement; understands that, through having access to regular exercise, members of Runforever experience improvement in their physical and mental health, as well as their overall wellbeing within prison, underpinned by humanising healthcare as an approach to building relationships and resources for good health; further understands that Stephanie Morrison, from Robert Gordon University's Public Health and Community Engagement Team, has been instrumental in the implementation and development of Runforever in collaboration with HMP Grampian’s recently established Recovery and Wellbeing Strategy Group; congratulates the members of Runforever on their recent Santa 10K run, and offers best wishes to the organisers and members of HMP and YOI Grampian’s Runforever club. 

Supporters (24)

Source: the Scottish Parliament motions and amendments record.