Fakenham Riverside Community Day - Back So Soon

The 2022 Fakenham Riverside Community Day is set to return on Sunday 19th June. This year the organisers are planning an exciting and fun day with the Great Fakenham Duck Race, the Corporate Duck Race, with ducks sponsored by local businesses and the popular Cardboard Raft Races. There will also be stalls, hot food, tea and cakes, bouncy castles, live music and more. It is set just a few hundred metres from the town centre next to the beautiful river Wensum. Entry is free.

The call has gone out to local businesses to sponsor a “duck” and for people to enter the cardboard raft races. The giant ducks are individually decorated by the individual business and Entry forms are on the Active Fakenham website. This race is supported by the Fakenham and District Rotary Club.  

Tickets to enter the Great Fakenham Duck Race will be available on the day or can be bought in advance at the Factory Shop in the market place or at the Larder in Norwich Street. They cost one pound each.

Richard Crook, from Active Fakenham, which is organising the event said, “Now is the time to start building your cardboard raft.

Entry is free , details and entry forms are on the website. We have had some great rafts in recent years and are pleased that the Fakenham Firefighters will be entering this year for the first time – I am looking forward to seeing what they produce. Most of the rafts are creative individual efforts and the races are a lot of fun.”

There will also be a special Father’s Day treat. The Fakenham Osprey Canoe Club are overseeing the water based activities. Last year the popular event had to be postponed twice but was eventually held in September

There will be a Hog Roast, Sri Lankan Street Food, stalls run by local organisations and the bouncy castles will charge a single fee for all day access. There will be strong coffee and cake for wilting adults.

There is no parking or toilets at the site but there is free parking in Olivet Way (about a 10 minute walk) and local pubs and shops have agreed to allow people to use toilet facilities and public toilets are in Bridge Street.

There is a short film of last year’s event available on the Active Fakenham website and social media as well as photos and videos from previous years. The event takes place at Goggs Mill Road, in the field by the bridge

Active Fakenham is looking for volunteers to help with the event – if this is you please contact Richard Crook 07887 803091 or email richard@activefakenham.org.uk

Any money raised will go towards future local Active Fakenham events and Active Fakenham is supporting Fakenham First Focus with this event

NOTES

For more information contact Richard Crook 07887 803091 richard@activefakenham.org.uk

Timetable

10.00              Rafts on display field for viewing

10.30             Rafts assembled on land for judging “best dressed raft”

11.00              Raft Races

12.30              Local business sponsored, Giant Corporate Duck Race

1.00               Great Fakenham Duck Race

1.30                Music, stalls and food by the river

2.30               Close

Bring a chair or blanket and a picnic or visit our food stalls. Listen to the live Music

Through the day

Food and stalls 

Hog Roast
Cakes, Tea and Food
Bouncy Castles + “grab a duck”

Fakenham Country markets -  homemade cakes and sandwiches etc.

Amma's Kitchen - Sri Lankan street food
Fakenham Osprey Canoe Club
Rotary Club of Fakenham & District
Simply Just Coffee

Solar Scoops Locally made Norfolk ice cream served the environmentally friendly way
Stalls

First Aid