Promote and organize noncompetitive fitness activities that encourage lifelong fun, fitness and friendship for all ages and abilities in Central Pennsylvania and the surrounding Region.
Increasingly engage Americans in lifelong walking and other noncompetitive physical fitness activities in Central Pennsylvania and the surrounding Region.
1) Health and Safety
2) Volunteering and Public Service
3) Non-Competitive and Inclusive
4) Adventure and Camaraderie
5) Environmental Stewardship
6) Transparency and Accountability
Purpose
Section 1. General Purposes.
This club is a non-profit family sports organization dedicated to promoting the physical fitness and well-being of the population of the greater York, Pennsylvania area through participation in Volkssport events in accordance with the policies, rules and regulations of the International Federation of Popular Sports (IVY) and the American Volkssport Association (AVA). The Club shall encourage and support participation in these events, and promote the exchange of ideas, goodwill, friendship, and good sportsmanship among individuals and local clubs dedicated to these purposes.
This Club shall organize, promote and conduct scheduled programs of non competitive, family-oriented, participatory lifetime sports, including but not limited to walking, jogging and running, as sanctioned by the IVY and AVA.
Section 2. Specific Purposes.
To compile a calendar of sanctioned events to be made available to members, other clubs and the general public;
To develop and implement a program of public information and education to engender interest in scheduled programs of non-competitive, family-oriented, participatory lifetime sports;
To increase communication among volksmarchers through a newsletter circulated to its membership;
To provide understanding of the benefits of participation in the aforementioned activities;
To foster a preventive maintenance concept in health care;
To promote the health benefits of exercising through walking, swimming, snowskiing, biking, and other sanctioned individual sports;
To conduct periodic meetings and provide minutes of those meetings to the membership.