Win a prized piece of Perin's porcelain

Yet another valuable item has been added to the list of prizes which must be won at the Rotary Clubs of Leicester Duck Race in Knighton Park, Leicester.

This one is a piece of porcelain produced by renowned potter Perin Perin Towlson Designs - Home, who is a member of Bradgate Rotary.

Perin is the artist who produced two sets of three lidded porcelain pots marking the life of King Richard III whose remains were interred in Leicester Cathedral after his bones were discovered under a nearby car park.

Perin’s pots – which had to exactly fit wooden boxes made by King Richard’s descendant and woodworker Michael Ibsen – contain soil from the places where Richard III was born (Fotheringhay Castle, Northampton), lived (Middleham Castle, Yorkshire) and died (Fenn Lane, Market Bosworth, Leicestershire).  One set of boxes is in the wooden casket other set is on display at Leicester Cathedral.

The unique porcelain piece that Perin has donated as a prize is so fine that you can see through it the silhouette of your fingers as you hold it.

It brings to over £700 the value of the nine prizes donated so far to help raise the duck race raise money for the Leicestershire branch of the Motor Neurone Disease Association.

Other prizes include a play party for up to 20 children at Everyone Active, Parklands Oadby. Other prizes which are named on the tickets include

• a £100 holiday voucher donated by Holiday Lounge, Birstall
• The third prize is £75 in cash
•  A £200 voucher donated by Michael John Flooring in The Parade, Oadby, and Narborough Road, Leicester
• An Amazon voucher worth £50 donated by Bradgate Rotary president Andrea Wilkinson
• A voucher for a meal for four donated by the Holiday Inn, Wigston, just a stone’s throw from Knighton Park
• A voucher for a meal for four donated by the family-run Mirch Masala Restaurant in Melton Road, Leicester, which is currently celebrating its 30th year of serving vegetarian food.
• A £25 voucher to be used at The Wheatsheaf, Thurcaston

Duck race promoter Jim Matthews, a member of Bradgate Rotary said: “We are very grateful to all those donors who are helping us to make a big difference to local families living with Motor Neurone Disease. Having very recently had a member of my family being diagnosed with the disease, I know what wonderful work they are doing and will do with well-funded research.

“With three weeks to go, planning for the event is just about completed. We are assembling a large team of stewards from Bradgate, Leicester and Leicester De Montfort Rotary Clubs to keep people safe along the banks of Saffron Brook where it runs through Knighton Park.

“And of course, we are so very grateful to the Friends of Knighton Park, alongside whose open day we are running the duck race. The open day is a fantastic community event – exactly the sort of thing that Rotarians sign up to. Ten per cent of what we raise from ticket sales and donations will be given directly to the hard-pressed Friends of Knighton Park.

“All we need now,” says Jim, “is for a lot of people to buy tickets for the race.”

Numbered tickets corresponding to the numbered 1,000 ducks can be bought for £3 each in advance by contacting Jim on 0116 292 8267 or e-mailing jim.matthews1@ntlworld.com.

“We don’t expect to sell out, so look forward to seeing lots of people in Knighton Park, accessed off Brighton Avenue, Wigston, any time after 10am on Sunday, September 6. Admission is free. The race is scheduled to start at 2.30pm.”

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