Happy New Year from We Are a Knockout!

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A BIG THANKS to all our fans, supporters and of course customers (a.k.a. Funsters!) for using our “It’s A Knockout” services and games over 2011 … we had the best year so far and we certainly look forward to having more fun and games in 2012.

And we do URGE YOU to tell you friends, loved ones and work colleagues that our events are ‘Knockout’ entertainment! If you haven’t tried the ‘Knockout Experience’ yet then book early because the best dates and weekends soon get get booked up.

See you in 2012!

Student Freshers Have A Knockout Time

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The Hartlepool Mail reports that 1000 local first year students at East Durham College took part in a massive It’s A Knockout event recently.

The students competed against each other in a range of team challenges including massive air-filled courses, inflatable demolition balls, nets, a bungee run and paintballing, as well as seven-a-side football, pancake throwing, penalty shoot-out and crossbar challenge. Sounds like great Team Building Fun!

Army recruitment teams from Catterick, Newcastle and the Rifles, Durham, helped to run the event and also supplied a number of pieces of apparatus.

Winter “It’s A Knockout” Aviemore c.1974

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This is a nice compilation of clips and interviews based around the ‘winter sports’ version of Its A Knockout at Avimore – a regular venue for the old BBC games show… featuring Geoff Wilson and Stuart Hall.

“They didn’t realise at the time these were the best years of their lives… “

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It’s A Knockout Raising Money for Charity

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The Scunthorpe Telegraph reports that their teams raised in excess of £5000 for their chosen hospice…

A TEAM of Telegraph reporters and staff has made a splash for charity to help raise thousands of pounds. An It’s A Knockout-style competition was held to raise money for Scunthorpe’s Lindsey Lodge Hospice. And organisers said they thought the 11 teams competing, including Team Telegraph, had raised about £5,000. The event, which involved teams hurling themselves across a string of inflatable obstacles, proved a great success… read more here.

Remember this? 1976 Radio Times re-launches It’s A Knockout

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Radio Time Knockout Cartoon 1976Well what a fab blog post I just found that shows the  Radio Times from 1976. It’s a great piece for the new BBC series of It’s A Knockout. With sections on all the fave presenters: Stuart Hall, David Vine, Eddie Waring, etc.

>> Read the Blog Here

And there is a piece about saving water during the games because of the glorious ’76 summer that was blighted by drought (which you will remember featured heavily in the crazy antics ). Please have a read – it’ll bring back some memories and remind us just how great  It’s A Knockout was in the UK back in the 70′s !!

Charity Event, £10,000 for Children’s Hospice!

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A wet and wacky It’s a Knockout charity event held Sunday Sept 26 in Shrewsbury was a raving success according to the Shropshire Star. The 11 teams taking part have hopefully raised in excess of £10,000 for the local Hope House Children’s Hospice.

It was the first of it’s kind in the area and attended by 100′s of supporters, the local Mayor and the football team’s mascots ‘Lenny the Lion’ and ‘Teddy’. The organisers have said the event’s success has suggested this should be an annual charity fund raiser… fingers crossed the ‘It’s A Knockout’ fun bug is forever catching on. Long live Its A Knockout !

> Read more on the Shropshire Star Web Site.

Kind-hearted Competitors Raise £12,000 for the Prince’s Trust

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DOZENS of kind-hearted competitors rolled around in foam, got soaking wet and daubed themselves with blue paint as they landed an It’s A Knockout blow for charity.

They were competing in an It’s a Knockout event held in Royal Sands to raise funds for the Prince’s Trust, a national youth charity offering practical and financial support to youngsters. The event was organised by Avon and Somerset Constabulary, and saw competitors from the police, Marks and Spencers, DHL and North Somerset Council’s foster care service dress up as smurfs and nuns to battle through a range of inflatable challenges.

The event raised more than £12,000 for the charity, and organiser PC Lee Paine said: We had 12 teams, who all put in an amazing performance. Everyone raised loads of money through sponsorship and bucket shaking on the day, along with contributions from companies selling food, photographs and doing face painting on the day.

“We’re really grateful for the tremendous support which helped us reach this fantastic total for such a worthy cause. Thank you all so much.”
as repored on @ westonmercury.co.uk

We supply Its a Knockout events for team building activities, summer festivals, carnivals, sports events, parties & large community team events with giant inflatables, crazy costumes, a variety of challenging fun games and of course a professional It’s A Knockout Team. EVERYBODY agrees it’s a GREAT DAY OUT !

‘It’s a Royal Knockout’ is Back !!

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According to the ‘News Biscuit” – the BBC are considering a restage of the infamous ‘It’s a Royal Knockout’ as a fundraiser for the Duchess of York?

Here’ an extract but read it in full here >

Buckingham Palace has today announced plans to reprise the one-off ‘It’s a Royal Knockout’ tournament with all proceeds going to their favourite charity case, the Duchess of York.

‘If you are lucky enough to be born into privilege,’ said Prince Edward, the brains behind the original 1987 fundraiser, ‘then I think it’s beholden on you to try and give something back. Mummy really wants to give Fergie back, so fingers crossed we can raise enough to get her back on her feet and out of our hair for good.’

The evening’s entertainment will kick-off with a twist on the traditional greasy-pole challenge. Journalists from The Sun, The Mirror, The Mail and The Express will dress up as Arab sheikhs and attempt to gain access to Prince Andrew by running through a treacherous oil slick while attached to bungee ropes and delivering £500,000 in a briefcase to the Duchess of York…. more here >


It’s a Royal Knockout was a British slapstick television gameshow that aired in 1987, based on the original It’s a Knockout (the British version of Jeux Sans Frontieres) but including members of the British Royal Family.

The programme featured Princess Anne, Prince Edward and the Duke and Duchess of York as team captains, each representing a chosen charity and dressed in novelty costumes, and was hosted by Stuart Hall. BBC Radio 1 was there with Mike Smith doing the Breakfast Show and Steve Wright was there with The Radio 1 Roadshow.

Corporate Team Building the New Way!

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Its a Knockout Team Building Activities

Team Building Fun!

If you have ever been on a team building event for work then you’ll know they can traditionally be tedious, dull and hardly inspire you to greater things.

But office/work team building doesn’t have to be like that… a series of boring paper exercises, building a bridge out of straws or scribbling keywords on a Nobo whiteboard!!!

NO, NO, NO … BECAUSE TEAM BUILDING CAN ACTUALLY BE SO MUCH FUN – YOU’LL FALL ABOUT LAUGHING…. read on my corporate friends!

Wake Up, Go Crazy with Fun Team Building Programmes

As a person who has been on far too many management team building and corporate team activity days I can say that 90% of the time I came back to the office cynical, manipulated, tired and bored or a mixture of them all. I lost count of the times I said to colleagues “what a waste of time”!! And I heard others say that too!

So if your staff are thinking it – then it’s probably true. So please wake up to a new breed of corporate event management and team building that are much more sports in nature. It WILL get the staff laughing, motivated and talking positively for many months to come…. for sure.

Team Building Has Changed For Good

Corporate games, team building activities and leadership exercises of old are dead! – People learn much better in a relaxed and fun environment. So all manner of group games and team bonding activities have been designed around crazy antics and fun day events such as “It’s A Knockout” games or Outward Bound courses. And I know what I’d rather do… have some fun outdoors!

Teams just love Its A KnockoutIf you do, you can expect a lot of running around, shouting, laughing, and falling over, getting wet, foamed up, crashes, silly costumes…. and more falling over! But it can have its serious side in that these are team games with a purpose to succeed, show leadership, communication skills and use both physical and mental strength. You’ll observe your teams in ways that will not be observed in the workplace and with all that frivolity about you’ll see team bonding like no other… it’ll be a team love fest and they be begging for more! Honestly.

Making Team Activities Fun

Yes, as the corporate event planner you want to ensure your team day offers a series of interesting team building ice breakers, problem solving games, group activities, motivational games and team bonding activities… but hey, let’s make it enjoyable. We are not here to punish the workforce or turn them into robots right? We want to motivate and stimulate them – the rewards of which are well documented – a keener, happier workforce is a more efficient and productive workforce… in essence the whole point of team building programmes.

Say NO MORE to indoor team building exercises in the workplace or office – GET OUTDOORS! Book an It’s A Knockout Games Event and you’ll see the staff’s eyes light up. When did that happen with overhead projector?

Plan Your ‘NEW’ Corporate Event

If you are a corporate event planner or team leader looking to do something new and fun for your team morale or leadership training then start Googling key phrases like: “teamwork games, corporate event ideas, fun team building activities, corporate fun days or corporate team building activities”… there are loads of ideas beyond the ‘brainstorm’ and PowerPoint lists… As the team organiser if you CANNOT be motivated to do something different then how can you expect your team to be?

SOURCE: ArticleBase.com 2010 / Remember the Its A Knockout TV Show?