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Events 2022

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Easter Egg Hunt – Sunday 17th April 

Siggy and Petra are organising a family Easter egg hunt in the Knucklas Orchard and on Castle Hill (everyone needs to wear the right kind of shoes) on Sunday 17th April.Bring Children to the orchard any time between 11am and 2pm on Easter day.  Special Knucklas rules will be in force to ensure that bigger children don’t get more than their share of eggs.This is a free event.  Donations won’t be refused.


Spring Ceilidh – Saturday 23rd April – Knucklas

KCCLP is organising a Spring Ceilidh at the Knucklas Community Centre.  Starting at 7 pm, you’ll get supper with a vegetarian option followed by dancing to Bandamania with a caller.  There will be a bar.  Tickets, available in advance only (not on the door), from Pugh’s butchers or Tower House Gallery in Knighton.  Cost is only £15.00.  Proceeds go to KCCLP..  (Enquiries to 01547 740052 or 01547 640660  or knucklasceilidh@gmail.com)This is an indoor event.  Please do all you can to avoid the spread of infection.  Test before coming.  Please don’t come if you are positive or you have covid or cold-like symptoms.


Bird Song ID Walk – Saturday 30th April – Knucklas 
Janice Vincett from Radnorshire Wildlife Trust will be leading a bird song identification walk on KCCLP land starting at 8am in the orchard.  Numbers are limited to 15.  Book your place through Siggy 01547 528223 or sigridwilkes@gmail.com.  First come first serve.


All about Composting – Saturday 30th April – Knucklas
Julie Tyler Composting Champion from Knighton will lead a workshop from 2 pm to 4 pm at the allotments.  Learn how to make the best compost heaps, improve your soil and grow better plants.  Just turn up in gardening clothes.  Free.  Donations gratefully accepted.  For information phone 01547 520263 or 07970 545373 or email in answer to this email.


Bug Day – Saturday 16th July – Knucklas

Janice Vincett and Phil Ward will be running two courses about bugs – one for adults and the other for children.  Numbers are limited to 15 on each course.  There will be a picnic.  Camilla Saunders has offered to play some of her bug songs.  It is planned to ask Jenny Ogden to bring her bug puppets.  Book your place through Siggy 01547 528223 or sigridwilkes@gmail.com.  First come first served.

AGM 2016

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Give us a Hero

The speaker at the A.G.M thought we had our hero in King Arthur. Our enthusiast assured us that he was a 5th or 6th century Welshman, maybe a giant or at least very tall, and possibly he did throw a sword in a lake. (We hope he married Guinevere in Knucklas, but our speaker thought that she was a romantic invention.)
Our speaker, Evelyn Kirkham, had been looking at a range of legends; some with one Arthur, some two, some even three. Most us know the traditional tales from Le Morte d’Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory, but our speaker brought several other books, and a whole section at Bangor University library is devoted to Arthur. Perhaps our persistent desire for a rescuing hero is the reason the stories have endured. The audience contributed a great deal to the discussion.
Following was a surprisingly positive A.G.M.: healthy accounts, people volunteering to help each other and to raise money for the project. Even the village veg stall has earned a whopping £800. Events have been Apple Day, Wassail, Easter egg hunt, and Allotments Open Day. The Project, thus far, has actually paid a quarter of the purchase price for Castle Hill, allotments, and community orchard.