Meet Verity

I founded RunVerity in 2014 to create a safe, supportive, and inclusive running community, challenging the narrow and often intimidating ideas of who running is for.

I believe running isn’t just about turning up and moving, if only it was that easy. Running takes place in public spaces shaped by gender, age, confidence, safety, power, and belonging; there's nothing simple about that.

Creating an inclusive run club was never just about who felt welcome, for me it was about safeguarding the work; paying attention to who felt watched, who felt safe, and more importantly, who attended briefly before quietly disappearing.

For over more than a decade, I built RunVerity as both a business and a community, designing physical and psychological training programmes, training run leaders, managing risks, writing policies and supporting runners with a wide range of bodies, experiences, fears, and confidence levels.

My passion developed into a full time business that carried legal responsibility, financial risk, and emotional labour, with real consequences when things went wrong. Drawing on my background in teaching, I worked ahead of formal frameworks by developing codes of conduct, designing safer routes, embedding safeguarding, and creating pathways for people who had never previously felt that they belonged in sport.

In December 2025, I closed the physical chapter of RunVerity, not because the work was finished, but because grassroots running is only just beginning to build the systems it needs to sustain inclusive communities.

I now write, speak, and work at the intersection of running, safeguarding, and inclusion focusing on how safety, power, and belonging are designed into systems, not assumed through good intentions.