Welcome to Alchester Running Club!

Thank you for your interest in Alchester Running Club. We would love to welcome you to our club.

All memberships expire on 31st March 2027 and will then be subject to renewal. Full year membership cost from 1st April 2026 to 31st March 2027 is £48 for first claim and £25 for second claim (ie you are already a first claim member of a different affiliated club). First claim membership includes England Athletics' £23 fee for a year's registration.

Benefits of membership

Apart from a lot of friendly people to run with there are a considerable number of benefits of first claim membership:

• Alchester Running Club is affiliated to Oxon AA, the South East AA and England Athletics
• Club members do not have to pay the unattached levy when entering races (£2 saving per race)
• Insurance
• Free entry to Ridgeway Relay
• Free coaching at Tuesday club training sessions
• Safer winter running in groups on a Thursday
• Village routes in groups on a Thursday in the summer
• Entry to London Marathon club ballot (subject to qualifying conditions)
• Discounted entry fee for the Mota-vation summer road race series
• Subsidised entry to the Oxfordshire Cross Country League series
• Subsidised end of season awards dinner and other club social events
• Club discount for sessions at Williamson Chiropractic & Sports Injuries Clinic

Please take a look at our website (see link on right-hand-side) to find out more information about the club. 

Any questions, please contact me at membership@alchester-runningclub.co.uk

Alan Bowen (Membership Secretary)

Please note: When you become a member of or renew your membership with Alchester Running Club, your data will be added to the club database for use by club committee members and you will automatically be registered as a member of England Athletics. We will provide England Athletics with your personal data which they will use to enable access to an online portal for you (called myAthletics). 

England Athletics will contact you to invite you to sign into and update your MyAthletics portal (which, amongst other things, allows you to set and amend your privacy settings).

If you have any questions about the continuing privacy of your personal data when it is shared with England Athletics, please contact dataprotection@englandathletics.org.