Race for Life - Park and Ride in Worcester (June 12)

The Race

Join the girls to help beat cancer at Tesco and Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life 2011. This year, Cancer Research UK is hoping to bring together one million women to raise an amazing £80 million for their lifesaving work.

Race for Life is more than just an incredible day out – it’s helped fund amazing advances in cancer research across the UK for the last 17 years. In 2011 they need more women than ever to take part in Race for Life. Every two minutes someone is diagnosed with cancer in the UK. So walk, jog or run to help save more lives. Enter your local 5k or 10k Race for Life at www.raceforlife.org or call 0871 641 1111.

Worcester Race for Life

In 1999 the first Race for Life was held in the City of Worcester. The race had 700 participants and within 3 years the number of participants had risen to 3,000. In response to the demand for this increasingly popular race, the decision was made to take the race into the City Centre. Automatically this increased the capacity of the race and in 2009, 5,000 participants helped raise over £300,000 for Cancer Research UK.

Out of the 280 races held annually by Cancer Research UK, Worcester is in the top 20 of the most successful races across the country and is established as the single biggest Race for Life in the Midlands.

Now recognised as a major regional event, Worcester’s Race for Life is something the people of Worcester can be proud of.

This year's Race for Life will take place on Sunday, June 12, 2011, starting at 11:00am.

Race for Life Park & Ride services, Sunday, June 12, 2011

The FREE Park and Ride service R1 will be in operation from Perdiswell Park and Ride Site to Castle Street from 9.00am to 10.30am in time for the start of the race.

The return buses will pick up from St. Nicholas Street to Perdiswell Park and Ride Site from 12.15pm to 13.40pm.

All buses will be operated by Worcestershire County Council's Woosh buses, see timetable below for details.

Getting to the race

Getting back from the race

The Race for Life Route

The Race will start on Pitchcroft Racecourse at 11:00am and take the following route:

• START: Pitchcroft Racecourse
• Grandstand Road
• Croft Road
• Castle Street
• Farrier Street
• The Butts
• Crowngate Bus Station
• FINISH: Angel Place

The road closure schedule on Sunday, June 12, 2011

Worcester Race for Life will be closing the roads shown below. The times are a guide only as roads will be closed as late as possible and re-opened as early as possible. Other roads may be affected to which notice will be given closer to the time of the event.

• The roads affected will be: Grandstand Road, Croft Road, Severn Terrace, Castle Street, Farrier Street, The Butts, Angel Place (via Bus Station) and Broad Street.
• For the purpose of crowd control the following roads are affected: Angel Street and The Cross. Also Foregate Street bus lane due to the closure of the bus station.

The timings of each closure will vary from 9am until 10.45am.

Other Bus information

CrownGate Bus Station will be closed during the morning of the race.

All services will be subject to diversion, disruption and delays during the morning as roads will be closed. However usual bus services will operate from City Walls Road (opposite the Fownes Hotel) as opposed to CrownGate

CrownGate Bus Station will re-open after 1.00pm and all services should run normally from that time. Further information will be displayed at affected bus stops closer to the date.