Rotary International & The Lions - Charity Fund Raising
We are very pleased to announce that Knutsford Rotary & The Knutsford Lions have become our partners in promoting and the organnising of the KGR event.

Having achieved the 50 team entry target for the race, we are now turning our minds to the raising of £25,000 + for the nominated charity www.shelterbox.co.uk, the International Disaster Relief organisation, you may have seen their major involvement in the recent Haiti earthquakes.

You will see from the "Sponsorship Packages" page that we are offering a number of very interesting opportunities including "Team Sponsorship" for companies, business's  and individuals to take part in helping to raise this not insignificant sum of money, whether its by sponsorship or advertising

Team Sponsorship
Note to All Riders - That as part of the fund raising activites, which I am sure you will want to be involved in.You will already have noted that we are looking for Team Sponsorship and as such you may well be given, on registration, an attractive coloured company sponsored T shirt and the sponsors name on the back. If you are one of the lucky ones chosen to have one of these shirts, we would ask you to wear this throughout the afternoon and it will be yours, to keep as a momento of this unique occasion.

Souvenir Programme
We are also very pleased that the 32 page A4 Full Colour Programme,which contains a number of interesting features, details of the events of the day, detailed biographies, plus picutes of the riders in the race, including, machines etc,what they have done in the past, history of the race, a map of the course, history of the machines taking part.We imagine that this souvenir programme will fast become very collectable and at only £2.30 + £1.25 p&p offers great value.....get your orders in fast, to secure a numbered limited editionion copy.
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The Mereside Brass Band
We have been lucky enough to have been able to book the award winning local Mereside Brass Band, up wards of 30 members, to entertain us, whilst we warm up, get registered, enjoy a freshly made bacon sandwich, with hot cup of tea and get sorted for the main event.

The Waterloo Cannon
A very exciting development is that Glyn has managed to persuade the owner of a 6pdr cannon, that was at Waterloo, to make it available to start and finish the Great Race with a great BOOOOOOM!!

The Knutsford Great Race cake
Via our newest and very enthusiastic committee members Fiona Haig, it looks as though we will be able to offer a fantastic fully decorated Penny Farthing cake as one of the races prizes, courtesy of Angel Cakes of Altrincham, Cheshire.

Race Transponders
Each rider/team will be issued with an electronic transponder, enabling the course marshall and race commentator to know exactly who is winning at anyone time and how many laps each rider has completed.

Celebrity Starter
We have secured the services of a well known celeb, no we are not going to tell you - its a surprise, to start the race and to present the medals to the winners and riders.

Granada TV
Last month we were featured in Granada North West reports........next month its going to be Cheshire Life.