Organised under ARC rules - Permit No: ARC/25/0843

The 1.5k course is 3.5 laps around the Cricket pitch. The 5k starts with a lap of the Cricket pitch then just over 4 laps on the outer path of the park  Both races finish in front of the Cricket Pavilion. 

This is a FUN RUN and therefore no finish line timings will be recorded. If competitors wish to record a time then they must do so on their own timing device.

Race start times are:

10:15 for the 1500m with a warm up session at 10:00

10:45 for the 5k with a warm up session at 10:30 

Enter and let us provide a Santa Suit for you or enter without and provide your own. As we are not able to source female Santa Suits this year Adult entry with a Santa Suit will be Unisex one size fits all. 

Commemorative medal to all finishers along with Xmas chocolates or sweets.

Entry Fees are as follows:

Adult aged 16 years plus - £14 with Santa Suit (£10 without)

Children Aged 11 - 15 - £9 with Santa Suit (£5 without)

Children Aged up to 10 - £7 with Santa Suit (£3 without)

For those who pay for a Santa Suit, these will be made available to collect prior to race day, from Ashgate Hospice Furniture Store, Unit 9a, Storforth Lane trading Estate, Hasland, Chesterfield, S41 0QD.

• dates and times for collection to decided

Entrants providing their own Santa Suit please collect race number from the Cricket Pavilion from 9am on race day.

Race numbers kindly donated by The Derby Runner.

Further race information will be posted on Cannon Events Facebook page CLICK HERE.

There is a limit of 700 entries and no entries will be taken on the day, closing date for online entries is  13:00 on 19th December or when entry limit is reached. Please note that entry fees, once accepted are NOT refundable. 

Chesterfield Santa Fun Run HQ will be the Cricket Pavilion in Queen's Park on the day,  there are toilets and changing available. 

Chesterfield Santa Fun Run is supporting Ashgate Hospice and is listed on the JustGiving Events page CLICK HERE to donate. 

By signing up to take part you will have already done something amazing and we hope that you will be able to collect sponsorship money to make the run even more worthwhile!  One of the easiest ways to fundraise is to set up a JustGiving page, to set up your own Just Giving page to raise sponsorship money online, please click here. Get sharing your fundraising page with your friends, family and on social media. Let everyone know about the amazing challenge that you’re doing in support of Ashgate Hospice. 

Take a look at the Ashgate Hospice Fundraising Toolkit for lots of handy hints and tips on how you can raise money OR if you wish to fundraise the old fashioned way CLICK HERE for link to sponsor form.

Queen's Park , Cricket Pavilion, Boythorpe Avenue, Chesterfield S40 2ND.