2023 Easter Egg Hunt

Many families took the Lions challenge for our annual Easter Egg Hunt. Thankfully the weather was sunny before Easter. Many found it challenging this year and we had few entries where all 20 eggs had been found. This was made more difficult when one of the eggs on the Knowle route went missing (presumably eaten by a Lion)! So we relaxed the prize entry requirements to 15 eggs and this saw far more hunters qualify for a prize.

Big thanks to the Dark Horse Coffee shop in Dorridge for donating two prizes, Freda's Deli and Swan Yard Coffee for a prize each. Not forgetting four fabulous cones of sweets donated by the Knowle Traditional Sweet Shop.

The winners in 2023 were:

Dorridge 1st Prize,  Ben, Mabel, Rachel and Martin Baker

Dorridge 2nd Prize,  Sophia Roddy

Knowle 1st Prize,  Tom and Phoebe Livesey

Knowle 2nd Prize,  Ethen Pykett.

 And we are grateful for some great comments received this year:

Thank you again for all the hard work with the egg hunts.  Myself and daughters aged 11 and 8 really enjoyed doing both trails.  Unfortunately we only found 19 in each trail (!) but thought we’d pop you a quick email anyway…

My 8 year old son and I really enjoyed doing both of your hunts over the Easter weekend while staying with his grandparents in Knowle so thank you very much, even if we could only find 19 on the Knowle trail, despite doing it three times!

Hello just wanted to say thank you so much for organising the Easter egg hunt.

 We took our two children last Monday and it was great to spend a few hours outside. Unfortunately we only managed to find 16 of them, but here are our valiant efforts.

Me and my family really enjoyed doing your Easter egg hunt this year, especially my daughter Molly (who is 6). We only managed to find 17 eggs but understand you are still accepting entries into the prize draw if you find 15 or more.

Thanks for all of your efforts with the Easter trail, such a lovely thing to do.

2023 Fun Run

The 38th Knowle Fun Run took place on the 21st May 2023. The number of registrations rose significantly on last year at around 1000 and that old Knowle Fun Run “buzz” was back in the village. There was a great atmosphere on the Arden Academy playing fields with the resident Ukulele band providing the background music and Eric Lyons keeping us fed with fantastic burgers and hot dogs.

We were delighted to be joined for a second year by our local MP, Saqib Bhatti, who mingled with the crowd, started each race and awarded the prizes. The Kids runs were competitive in all age groups. Many charities joined the fun, including Meningitis NOW, AGE UK Solihull. We also had stalls from Bannatynes, who ran the warm up before the start of the main run and Virgin Active.  The Ladies Circle provided the tea and coffee.

There was enthusiastic support from many residents on the route around the village providing encouragement and water sprays. Our one wheelchair competitor said he greatly enjoyed it but that Barcheston Road was “a killer”.  We also had a young blind runner escorted around the course.  

We raised approximately £16000 for charity although the figures are to be confirmed at this stage. Some groups were also raising money for their own causes. We had a resurrected squiggle, once known as Prince raising money for Prostate Cancer, we had Solihull School raising money for the Birmingham Children’s Hospital and we had several groups raising money for Maggies.

The event lead Richard Buckley said “I was pleased that everything on the day and I want to give a big thanks to all the volunteers that manned registration, t-shirt distribution and most importantly marshal points around the route. "

2023 Easter Egg Raffle

The Black Boy Pub yet again were wonderful hosts to the K&D Lions Easter Egg Raffle.

The prize was an enormous hamper of easter eggs, consisting of 15 large eggs and a selection of small eggs. The tickets were sold over 3 weeks on evenings and weekend lunchtimes. Between us and our partners, we raised over £1000 for charity including for Age UK (Solihull).

2022 Festive Walk

A whopping 800 of you joined us for The Festive Walk 2022 and a great time was had by all including many fur babies! The weather held and apart from a little light rain, the conditions were perfect for a countryside walk. It was a lovely day out for many local families and we managed to capture some fabulous pictures.

The Lions would like to thank all the volunteers and Challenge Adventure Group, who helped marshal the 3ml and 6ml routes. 

We would like to thank Dorridge Village Hall for providing their facilities and we would also like to thank Garrison Coffee Company and Dorridge Cricket Club for providing refreshments.

Congratulations to Lily and Sophia for winning the Lions Festive Safari!

We look forward to seeing you all again next year on 27th December.

2022 Seniors Tea Party

We were so pleased to see100 happy faces leaving the Knowle Royal British Legion on Saturday 15th October.

The seniors tea party is a favourite on our annual calendar and is a great opportunity for all these wonderful people to get together, catch up, sing and dance.

The entertainment provided by Keith Slater was really enjoyed by everybody. Is there an instrument he can't play! And many thanks to Keith for being Quiz Master and compere also for the afternoon. 

We had the quiz winner taking home the "Tower of Treats" and many raffle winners.

Thanks to Sue and the team at the Legion for all their hard work and of course for all those who joined us for a lovely afternoon.

2022 B93 Ball

What an amazing evening we had on 8th October 2022!

A good meal, photo booth, table magic and disco kept us busy. One of the highlights of the evening was the raffle with 15 truly fabulous prizes on offer. Thank you for the many businesses who contributed to the raffle.

Thank you to everybody who came and helped make the night so memorable. Thank you to our sponsors, Arden Bookkeeping Ltd and DM & Co. Homes for supporting the event and of course, the Forest Hotel for hosting us again this year.

Our feet were aching the next day but our hearts were full. Such a fantastic evening had by all.

The night raised £700 for local charities.

Seniors Coach Trip 2022

The trip to Weston Super Mare this year on 13th September was a bit of a wash out this year. Two coach loads of party makers boarded two coaches full of optimism. When they got to Weston-Super-Mare it rained and rained. At least the coffee shops and cafes in the town benefited on the day.