Fakenham is getting behind its Riverside Festival
It’s looking good for the ever popular Fakenham’s annual Riverside Festival on Sunday 16th June. The event is held near the town centre by the beautiful river Wensum.
It includes the Great Fakenham Duck Race2024, the Giant Sponsored Duck Race, carboard raft races and a field of fun with bouncy castles, free facepainting, stalls, live music, an exercise area and food. New this year is the arena with fun and games, exercise and dance for everyone to join in with.
Organiser Richard Crook from Active Fakenham, said, “ The response has been great. We have forty one individually decorated giant ducks sponsored by local businesses and we will have the very popular Great Fakenham Duck Race with ducks at only one pound. Going by previous years I am expecting some interesting cardboard rafts and some spectacular manoeuvres and capsizes.
This year we are thrilled to have Platten Fitness and the Fakenham Sports and Fitness Centre running some fun sessions including a tug of war, on the field so bring your trainers or maybe take part in your wellies! We are also very pleased to have the talented Anto Morra back by popular demand to provide some live music.
We keep everything low cost and as accessible and fun as possible. The facepainting is free, the inflatables are only £5 for a whole day wristband and some free wristbands have been donated to schools
It is still not too late to build and enter your own carboard raft or for businesses to decorate and sponsor a giant duck”
Any profits go to the events Active Fakenham organises in the town throughout the year and a donation will be made to local charity Fakenham First Focus.”
Richard added, “This is a great opportunity for businesses which get to promote themselves, as well as helping the town and having some fun.”
There is no parking on site, but free parking is available in Olivet Way. The nearest toilets are a ten minute walk. Ducks will be on sale for £1.00 on the day and on the Fakenham market on Thursday 13th June. The event in Goggs Mill Road runs from 10.00 until 2.30pm. Details are on the Active Fakenham website and social media.
