Skipton Rotary Online Duck Race 2025

As a special fund raising event Skipton Rotary Club are holding an online Duck Race – for a cash prize!  Ducks are just £2.50 each and there is just one prize of £250.  There is no limit to the number of ducks you can buy – the more the merrier!  Please feel free to give a duck as a present to family and friends. 

Ducks can be bought online through the link below and through our Facebook page.  Full details are also available on our website.  Sales commence on 14th February and the last date to buy ducks is Sunday 20th April. https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/duckrace2025

All proceeds will be shared equally between School in a Bag and Aquabox.  These two charities support educational & nutritional care of children and distribute water & humanitarian aid.

Information about the Duck Race

The race is being promoted by The Rotary Club of Skipton Trust Fund Registered Charity no 502427 - Lottery Licence no. SL0268.  All proceeds will be collected through the same charity.

The funds from all ducks sold will be shared equally by the registered charities - School in a Bag and Aquabox.A single cash prize for 1st place of £250 will be awarded after 22nd April 2025.

No personal information will be passed by Skipton Rotary Club to any third party.

No ducks were harmed in the creation of this race! 

All enquiries to duckrace2025@skiptonrotary.org

Information about our two chosen charities.

School in a Bag - Luke Simon founded the charity, the Piers Simon Appeal, in 2005 shortly after his brother Piers sadly lost his life in the Boxing Day 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.  Most SIB helpers are unpaid volunteers. 

A School Bag can transform the way in which children can be taught and therefore learn – your gift can be a passport to a future life free from poverty.  They support children in all countries regardless of race, politics or religion.  They work with local partners on the ground thus empowering them within their communities.  Every School Bag is numbered and trackable providing complete donor transparency.

Aquabox - Run almost entirely by Rotary volunteers means that 95% of donations go directly to manufacturing the filters and distributing the Aquaboxes. From local volunteers making and assembling the water filters on site then filling the boxes with emergency supplies, to organising the logistics of distribution so the water filters and Aqua-aid boxes get to the very heart of a crisis, means more money goes directly to those who need it the most.

Millions of people around the world do not have access to clean water for drinking, cooking or washing. A single Aquabox family filter can convert up to half a million litres of polluted water into safe, clean water – and give some of those desperate people the hope of a better life. Aquabox: clean water in a crisis.