Duck Race Was Successful on 8th July 2023

MOST YEAR's we have had a Duck Race and ticket sales provides funds to support our Dictionaries for Every Local Junior School Pupil programme.

We plan to be back in 2024 with our fleet of racing ducks on what is forecast to be a lovely Summers day so we look forward to you joining us on the River Walk by the bridge opposite Lidl's.

Proceeds from the Duck Race help to donate a personal illustrated dictionary to every child in Witham junior schools year 5 or 6 with. Since 2004 The Rotary Club of Witham have ordered, labelled, sorted and presented dictionaries to over 9000 Witham pupils.

The photos below are of the 2019 Duck Race. It was a cloudy but  warm day and just right for the Witham Carnival and the Rotary Club Annual Duck Race.  The usual race course, along the River Brain from near the bowling green and under the Bridge Street bridge to the winning line, was well known to many who had bought a ticket for a numbered duck in the hope of wining  a prize.  As soon as the Carnival Procession had crossed the bridge, the ducks were tossed into the river and a few minutes later they began to appear under the Bridge Street bridge as they approached the  Finish.  Note one red duck - the first of a new class of duck reserved for corporate concerns in Witham who had sponsored the race with special red tickets priced many times the cost of an ordinary ticket.  The first duck of the coporate red ducks won a hamper, donated by a sponsor, for the concern. 

After the race,  the straggler ducks had to be rounded up so they could be washed and stored for next year.