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2025 Great Fakenham Duck Race

Great Fakenham Duck Race
Sunday 15th June 2025
10 to 2.30

The Great Fakenham Duck Race is a free event open to the public. The race and picnic will be held at Goggs Mill from 10.30. It is part of the Fakenham Riverside Community Festival that runs from 10.00 until 2.30.

Once you buy a duck, it is entered in the duck race (you do not get to keep the duck). See if your duck is the lucky winner; there are super prizes to win and lots of fun to be had. 


Buy a Duck - Great Fakenham Duck Race £1 per ticket 

Buy a duck on the day - Ducks can be bought on the day

    
Fakenham Riverside Community Day
Sunday 15th June 2025
Goggs Mill Road
(in the field by the bridge)

Music and picnic area will be open from 10.00 to 2.30
Bring a chair or blanket and a picnic or visit our food stalls. Listen to the live Music

Please note there is no parking or toilets on the site. Parking in Olivet Way (10 min walk)



Through the day/morning
 Food and stalls 
Hog Roast
Cakes, Tea and Food
Bouncy Castles
Fakenham Country markets homemade cakes and sandwiches etc.
Fakenham Osprey Canoe Club
Rotary Club of Fakenham & District
Solar Scoops Locally made Norfolk ice cream served the environmentally friendly way
Stalls
First Aid

Active Fakenham is supporting Fakenham First Focus and three local schools with this event

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Join us for the Giant Duck Race Active Fakenham, in partnership the Fakenham and District Rotary Club, is thrilled to be putting on this event. Join us to watch these ducks. Why your business should join in We hope your business decides to support this community project. We will aim to make the event as much fun as possible and encourage participation and attendance. We will also help promote your duck (and therefore your business). Any money raised will go towards community events in Fakenham and a contribution is also being made to Fakenham First Focus. We will aim to do this by: • listing entries on our website • posting on social media (we do Facebook, Instagram and Twitter) • distributing press and media releases • the event will be photographed and filmed (tbc) and these will be available to you as well as shared on social media and websites - we will arrange a photo shoot at the Bridge in Goggs Mill Road at Goggs Mill Bridge prior to the event. This will go in the local paper. Winners prizes include 1. First Prize TBC 2. A bottle of Champagne For more information and to download the entry form as a PDF HERE or as a WORD Doc HERE Active Fakenham would like to thank the following businesses for sponsoring a duck in the 2022 Corporate Duck Race. Any funds raised will go to local events and local charities Aldiss Butcher Andrews Solicitors Carben Construction Dempsey Heating Des Cooper Hairdressers Eastern Daily Press Fakenham & District Rotary Club Fakenham and Wells Times Fakenham Garden Centre Fakenham Infant School Fakenham Junior School First Focus GJL animal feeds Grove Veterinary hospital and clinics H Banham Ltd Hayes and Storr Larking Gowan M D Williamson Carpets Ltd Nod Butcher and Son Original Factory Shop Ploegor UK Soil Fertility Services? Sports & Fitness Centre Stephenson Smart ✿ ☀ ♫
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