Friday Night Lights

We had an incredible Monday evening celebrating International Women's Day at adidas Runners London and Friday Night Lights. The event featured a post-run workout led by the amazing Shakira Akabusi. A big thank you to Georgina and Emma Guthrie for leading this fantastic session and to Hannah Hamshere, Ayo Dada, and the adidas UK team for organizing such a memorable celebration of International Women's Day. Here are some pictures from the evening, captured by Daniel Hamshere. With Women, We Run. #internationalwomensday #strongertogether #adidasrunnerldn #runnersldn #fridaynightlights #batterseapowerstation

Just back from our first session with Friday Night Lights. Exciting to combine their big speakers and positivity with our big task to rebuild a community garden by the Tower of London. Sunshine, loads of people doing something new and getting about 8 tonnes of earth shifted with a goal of increasing biodiversity: perfect start to the weekend. Nice one to all at Friday Night Lights for getting stuck in and to Grounded Ecotherapy for all your amazing work. Loved this morning 😀😀      

Absolutely over the moon to announce that our running club that started on London Bridge 3 years ago with 8 of us has now secured investement from the most premier running events company on the planet. Let’s rock and roll.

We're Hiring! FNL are searching for a freelance designer to create bold, eye-catching Festival posters and marketing promos for our festival series! We are looking to work with someone who has created a variety of festival posters. Does this sound like you? Email Jobs@fridaynightlights.run with your portfolio and we'll be in touch

Are you London-based, skilled behind the camera, and ready to create epic content? We’re looking for a videographer to shoot short-form, social-first videos for one of the UK’s fastest-growing running events. 📍 What you’ll do: Shoot for 4 hours most Fridays (longer during festivals). Work with our Marketing Manager to deliver 3 reels per event based on a creative brief. Apply here: https://lnkd.in/eMXt3fZj or Email your CV/Portfolio to with the subject header FREELANCEVIDEO Jobs@fridaynightlights.run

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The first Friday Night Lights race day! April 18th Bank Holiday Friday in Battersea Park! #VibeMerchants

Most Innovative Event at the Running Awards in front of 350 of industry leaders?? Crap imported FNL merch?? Nervous smile?? Check, check, check. Genuinely caught off guard having to go and collect an award on behalf of our entire community and team for our event. To be recognised as the most innovative running event and hearing some of the lovely things being said about our group from the people at the very top of the industry is absolutely gob smacking. From starting last Summer from nothing, being a nobody, and not having any experience in hosting events to being where we are now. When I get moment to do, it will be a lovely time to reflect on what our group has achieved. The whole Running Industry Conference started with a surprise when one of the presenters was talking about the most significant things happening in running in 2024, and the Paris Olympic’s was being talked about in the same sentence as Friday Night Lights. Charlie = stoked, mind = blown. The scary thing is, I don’t feel like any of the events we have done yet are remotely close in levels of innovation or quality to what I can see inside my head. Maybe that’s a good thing? Perhaps it’s a bad. Let’s wait and see. 2025 will be an interesting year for our community. There is no doubt in my mind it will end either in fireworks or a big ball of fire. We will continue to take huge risks putting every thing we have into every thing we do, pushing on all fronts all the time all at once. We’ll keep our blinkers on, look solely at ourselves, ignore the outside noise, and just keep pushing forwards doing our own thing in our own way. And you know what? Whichever way it goes; fireworks or fire ball, I’m okay with.

Consider me buzzed. Runners World big ol’ article on Friday Night Lights is a very cool addition to our list of places FNL has stumbled into. We’ll quieten down for 2 weeks off in December having pushed relentlessly hard on every single front for the last 18 months to build our brand and business, but once that 2 week break is done, we are full throttle back on the gas for 2025 with another complete level up of what we are doing. If you haven’t made it down to a Friday Night Lights mini-festival just yet don’t you worry as you’re in luck; we’ll be bringing the goods next Summer. Hold on to your hats.