New Lion Launches Fun Run

Entries for this year’s 27th Knowle Fun Run opened on New Year’s Day with a new fresh face fronting the KnowleFunRun.org.uk website.

‘For the past 13 year’s the image of Leo, the old Running Lion, has lead the event, but we feel he has become a little tired and needs to hang up his trainers in favour of a new younger fresh faced Lion,’ says Knowle and Dorridge Lion and Fun Run leader John Heard.

The 5 mile Knowle Fun Run with 2 laps on traffic free roads and its 2 Mini Runs for the under 9’s is one of the Midlands biggest community fundraising events. This year’s Run on Sunday 16th May will raise funds for the Parkinson’s Disease Society, Teenage Cancer Trust and fly2help as well as local causes and the Lions hope that individuals as well as companies will commit early to raising lots of funds for these worthy causes.

‘We find that runners from all over the West Midlands are keen to reserve their place in what we hope will be another terrific record breaking community event,’ says organising Lion John Heard. ‘We hope that your readers needing to burn off some of those calories put on over the festive season will get their friends and relatives to join them and pull on their running shoes to start training now’.