Kelly's Santa Run & Christmas Market

Stoke Park, Nightingale Road, Guildford, GU1 1ER

Overall Rating

4.8/ 5

6 reviews
Would you recommend it to others? Yes
How did you rate the scenery? 3/5
How did you rate the atmosphere? 4/5
How did you rate the organisation? 4/5
Do you think this was friendly to beginners? Yes

Peta Lawrence

Lots of fun, and very friendly event. Perfect for beginners, lots of support from the team.

Reviewed using Eventrac, Dec 2022
Francesca Woods

Great fun to join in with lots of friendly people and dress as Santa to raise money for Challengers!

Would be helpful to have another person giving out race numbers, as there was a moderate queue.
There were loos, although quite a distance away in the park - a few portaloos near the course would be ideal.

Reviewed using Eventrac, Dec 2022

Fun, friendly run for fantastic cause and dogs allowed too!

Fantastic that 100 percent of proceed went to charity. Brilliant canicross event - this made it for me!
Great to have the stalls and Santa to keep non runners entertained. Only criticism was it was all delayed due to excessive number of people trying to register late. Got quite cold waiting around. Maybe give separate registration times for the different start times and have separate queues for on the day registration and pre registered?? Loved the event though and will def do again next year with a bigger team!

Reviewed using Eventrac, Dec 2022
Becky Middlemiss

Lovely feel good event!

I took my 2 daughters and niece for their 1st 2.5k today, thoroughly enjoyed it! Really impressed by the amount of volunteers around the course cheering us on/guiding us. The warm up was also really fun and feel good. Going forward my only feedback would be the sign in tent could’ve been quicker (I’m not sure how that could happen saying that!) and just slightly better guidance to the start line.

We didn’t have timing chips or attend any of the Xmas market so can’t comment on those.

Would defo attend again, well done to all involved, organisers and participants!

Reviewed using Eventrac, Dec 2022
Rebecca Palmer

Great fun for a good cause

Reviewed using Eventrac, Dec 2022
Samantha Holloway

Festivities suitable for seasoned runners, beginners and those out for a bit of fun!

This was a well organised event. Volunteers were fab. All the money goes to charity. The route was well marshalled. The santa hats and xmas decoration (medal) are very fun!

Reviewed using Eventrac, Dec 2022
Julia Lehane

Fun santa run

Overall the run was good fun.
The queue for the race numbers was quite long. There seemed to be lots of people signing up on the day, which is great, but it might have been better to have clear signage and/or a separate queue for those who had signed up online so things could move a little faster.

Reviewed using Eventrac, Dec 2022
Andy Pearce

Great fun

Never seen so many people dressed as Santa before in one place - brilliant

Reviewed using Eventrac, Dec 2022
Andy Little

Great fun run

Look forward to signing up for next year

Reviewed using Eventrac, Dec 2022
Michael Ferry

A great morning for a great cause!

Reviewed using Eventrac, Dec 2022
Phil Ellis

Amazing events

Reviewed using Eventrac, Dec 2022
Belinda Taylor

Good fun

It was good fun but could do with a little bit more organisation as start was quite delayed but other than that it was a good experience and I would do it again

Reviewed using Eventrac, Dec 2022

Fantastic - our 3 year old loved it!

We'll definitely do it again next year! The Christmas tree at the end ran with my daughter and she was thrilled. We just did 1 lap of 1km but she had a ball and nearly ran the whole way. What a lovely event.

Reviewed using Eventrac, Dec 2021

Well organised

Very friendly and helpful volunteers.

Reviewed using Eventrac, Dec 2021

Great family festive atmosphere

Reviewed using Eventrac, Dec 2021

Fantastic event would do it again next year

Reviewed using Eventrac, Dec 2021

Great race

Would be good to have know that it was half grass route due to using a buggy and it started before 1245 so very rushed for us. But very friendly organisers and marshals.

Reviewed using Eventrac, Dec 2021

Relaxed fun run

Huge thanks to the organisers and to the very enthusiastic Marshalls. Great fun in my calender for next year. Thank you

Reviewed using Eventrac, Dec 2021

Lovely event

Reviewed using Eventrac, Dec 2021

Friendly, enjoyable run

Started 12:30 when details said 12:45 so we got caught out by the change.

Best group of volunteers and organisers around, thank you.

Reviewed using Eventrac, Dec 2021