Redditch Lions Club and Children-in-Need

Once again November is here and Redditch Lions Club are going to be out again in the Kingfisher Centre collecting for Children in Need.

The first Children in Need appeal took place in 1927 when a radio appeal was made on Christmas Day.

It was only in November 1980, when the first ‘Telethon’ with Terry Wogan took place, did Redditch Lions get involved with raising funds for Children in Need.

The Club collected in the town centre (‘The Kingfisher’ was yet to be completed) and the donations were put towards the BBC’s aim of raising £1 million. Several Club members in typical Lions style, rushed off to Pebble Mills Studios with a massive cardboard cheque hoping to get on ‘the telly’.

Since that first collection, the Club have collected donations every year in the Kingfisher Centre and passed the donations onto the BBC’s appeal. To date, the total collections from the people of Redditch have well exceeded, £40,000.

It is always very heart warming to see each year, the number of regular people who come to us in the Kingfisher Centre with their own collections that they have saved up over the previous twelve months to donate towards the appeal.

More details of the Club and what it has been doing and is planning for the future, can be found on the web-site, www.redditchlions.org.uk