Student Freshers Have A Knockout Time

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.

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

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.