SOCIAL EVENTS 

Here are a few of the social events we have had recently with Members and Friends (FoLK)

SEPTEMBER 2023 - Wine Tasting evening

In July we have an informal lunch to mark the handover to our new Club President.Preparation of food is shared between members to keep down the cost. Rhymers are common here as well - an example is the Handover Verses in July 2016 and incoming President Peter kept up the tradition in  2019! Peter's Poem July 2019

CHARTER MEAL

In May we organise a meal to celebrate the anniversary of the official formation of our Club in May 1976.   This is our only formal event (menu cards, seating plan, speeches etc.!) - but speeches are kept to a minimum!!  Until 2015 the meal was followed with some music and dancing, but in May 2015 we decided to change to a more casual Charter lunch at a local venue. Friends and members of other local Lions Clubs are invited to attend.

In recent years our visiting District Governors (or representatives) joined the rhyming spirit of our club by reading some of their own specially prepared verses!  We look forward to some more verses in the future - always good to raise the spirits.

Verses by our Charter Guests (2014-2016)

OTHER SOCIAL EVENTS IN RECENT YEARS

Walks - Members have oganised a gentle walk/amble followed by lunch at a nearby Pub - some members just come along for the lunch!  

Local visits - over the years have included RAF Cosford, Halfpenny Green Vineyard, Moorcroft Pottery, The Hat Museum Stockport, Lower Moss Wood (tour followed by tea), Wedgwood, Catalyst Museum, Ordsall Hall & War Museum and Lymm Safety Central (Fire & Rescue Service) and the Lewis Carroll Centre/Daresbury Church followed by a Mad Hatters tea partyand donned our maddest hats for the Tea Party.

Theatre Trips - Groups of members/friends have periodically been to performances at local theatres and venues.

'Verse and Worse Evenings' - Before the Covid Pandemic,these were a special evenings which gave an opportunity for up and coming rhymers (or poets?) to read out a selection of rhymes (or poems?).  Some write their own, some read out works by others, some just come to applaud the "talent"!  It all made for a very light-hearted evening with supper included.  Non-members were encouraged to participate! 

At an early "Verse & Even Worse" evening one of our newest members read an excellent poem that she had written about her experiences with our Club - "An Ode to Knutsford Lions"

LIONS CENTENARY RECEPTION 2018

On Wednesday 28 February 2018 H.R.H. The Countess of Wessex hosted a Reception at Buckingham Palace to celebrate the Centenary of the formation of Lions Clubs International.     This was a Multiple District Event and only one representative was allowed to attend from each Club.  Our then President Clive Heath  wrote a "poem" about his visit.

   "A Right Royal Visit to London"

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