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# Burntwood park hosting attempt to stage world’s shortest fun run event
- URL: https://lichfieldlive.co.uk/burntwood-park-hosting-attempt-to-stage-worlds-shortest-fun-run-event/
- Published: 2013-03-05T09:30:38.000Z
- Updated: 2013-03-05T09:31:21.000Z
- Author: Lichfield Live
- Tags: Sport, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-07-22 19:24, News

Burntwood will be the stage for a world record attempt as a Lichfield company attempts to stage the shortest-ever fun run.

KP Events are hosting the event at Princes Park – the UK’s smallest park – on May 6.

[![Princes Park in Burntwood](https://storage.ghost.io/c/e3/90/e390c3da-0866-4d2a-8ffe-ca4999d7ce1c/content/images/lichfieldlive-co-uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/photo.jpg "photo")](//lichfieldlive.co.uk/2013/03/05/burntwood-park-hosting-attempt-to-stage-worlds-shortest-fun-run-event/photo-5/)

Princes Park in Burntwood

The run, at the site off Church Road and Farewell Lane, will be raising money for the [We Love Lichfield Fund](http://www.welovelichfield.com/?ref=lichfieldlive.co.uk).

Kevin Wilson from KP Events said: “Princes Park is a great attraction for the area and I thought it was the world’s smallest park, but that honour is taken up by a grassed traffic island on a California freeway!

“But Princes Park is the UK’s smallest park so this little strip of land should have another honour, so we decided to launch a Guinness World Record attempt to try and get between 500 and 1,000 people to run or walk around it.”

The course is likely to be suitable for all abilities – with only 55 strides required to complete the 25-second lap.

Kevin added: “Not only will people become record-holders but they can raise money for our favourite charity, the We Love Lichfield Fund which in only its first two years raised over £150,000 for local projects.”

The World’s shortest fun run attempt forms part of a themed May bank holiday weekend across the Lichfield district, staring with a running exhibition in the Three Spires Shopping Centre in Lichfield city centre on May 4 from 1pm, before the Lichfield Half Marathon on May 5 at 10.30am.

For more information about the World’s shortest fun run and to register, visit [www.kpevents.net](http://www.kpevents.net/?ref=lichfieldlive.co.uk) or email [kevin@kpevents.net](mailto:kevin@kpevents.net).