Duck Race

Bramhall And Woodford Rotary Club is once again holding a Duck Race and Family Fun Day and this year it will be held at Bramhall Park on Sunday 17 May. The Club is very pleased to announce that Redrow Homes, currently creating the Woodford Garden Village, have once again agreed to sponsor this event along with Bramhall based businesses Prestbury Travel, Leighton Snow Estate Agents, Vernon Building Society and Robins and Day Peugeot, Stockport. Thanks are also due to Stockport MBC and Barclays Bank for giving us their support.

Last year we had hundreds of families turn up on the day many of whom use the increasingly popular DUCK BUS Park & Ride service. Again, we will have THREE (yes, three!) free buses running throughout the day between Bramhall Village (Pizza Express) and the Park, Hazel Grove High School via Stockport Rugby Club and from Church Road, Cheadle Hulme with parking available at the two local schools.

Track them with the app on our website and at www.bwrotary.org and then look out for the yellow DUCK BUS. Extra parking will be available at Linney Road Scout Hut. Please use the bus if you can but, if you have to come in a vehicle, please park carefully and respectfully.

Starting at 11am, there will be a variety of duck races to watch and there will be speciality races with local celebrities and businesses getting involved by decorating giant plastic ducks, who will go beak to beak in the river. As well as duck racing with some fabulous prizes for the winners there will be many sideshows, a bouncy castle, games, singers, dancing groups and craft stalls. The classic cars will be with us again in the walled garden and there will be much more including the popular ferret racing. We have decided that money raised will be for the Motor Neurone Disease Association, Manchester which helps to provide local practical support for those living in Greater Manchester with Motor Neurone Disease, via a dedicated team of local volunteers, many of whom have had personal experience and feel driven to help others. The money will also be used for other charities supported by the Rotary Club.

Entry is still free but please enter a duck in a race for just a pound. You could be a winner of £100!

More information can be found at www.bwrotary.org