NCCA DUCK RACE!

They Came, They Saw, They Swam: 11/06/2016

What a Great Day Was Had By All! We had a fantastic turn out with lots of families coming out for the whole afternoon and enjoying the stalls, the bouncy castle & slide as well as the races. The rain even managed to stay off and the ducks all managed to make their way down the fast flowing beck after all the rain we had the night before.

Duck Race Winners:
1st Place - Golden Duck : Linda Hart. Pledwick, Wakefield
2nd Place - Chequered Duck : Rachel Day. Sandal, Wakefield.
3rd Place - Baseball Duck : Essie Booth, Newmillerdam (aged 20 months).

Duckfest Scare Duck Winners:
1st Place - RoboDuck. Hutchinson Family, Almshouse Lane, Newmillerdam.
2nd Place - Ducktastic Park. Waite Family, Boyne Hill, Newmillerdam.
3rd Place - Count Duckula. Walker Family. Slack Lane, Newmillerdam.

Welly Wang Champion:
1st Place - Lee Ward

Max Appeal:
1st Place - Mark Bottomley
2nd Place - Lucy Weatherall
3rd Place - Paula

Of course the event would not have been the same without all of our entries into the Duck Fest competition with an incredible amount of people making some amazing duck designs that were displayed around the village in the run up to the event. Winners included Donald & Daisy, Robo Duck, Ducktastic Park and knitted ducks from Almshouses..

A special thank you also goes to all our sponsors below without which this event would not happen.
Woodhead Investments | The Beuley Cafe | The Dam Inn Pub | The Pledwick Well Inn | The Hotel St.Pierre | The Lakeside Restaurant | Lakeside Natural Healing | Fox and Hounds

Apologies that Lakeside Healing & June Drysdale were missing from leaflet.

Also thank you to everyone that made cakes for the event, supplied prizes for the tombola and raffle or came along and helped on the day.

We are already starting to plan next year's event so if you have any ideas for improvements, want to get involved either contact us via email or on Facebook.

Photo's From The Event Taken by Lee Ward

More About The Event...

The NCCA Annual Duck Race is a fun family event which will take place form 12 noon on the 11th of June at the bottom of Slack lane on Owler beck. This year the NCCA are also coordinating a 'Duck Fest Competition'. All proceeds raised will be donated to charity.

Duck Race Game!!!

Play the NCCA Duck Race game!

A HTML5 mobile friendly fun & free little game developed by angrybison.com to support and promote the 2016 NCCA Annual Duck Race.

You can play the game here :
http://angrybison.com/duckrace/index.html

Get Creative! Get Involved!

Residents and visitors of Newmillerdam watch out for an invasion of ducks for our duck fest. Local businesses are designing, creating and displaying ducks around the village so watch out. You are invited to make a duck either on your own or as a group to enter into the free competition. Get creative. Winners will be announced at our duck race on the 11th June.

Duck race activities will take place from 12noon including Barbeque, refreshments, cake stall, bouncy castle and slide, face painting, colouring competition, Welly wanging competition and more stalls to be announced. Fun for all ages! Races from 1pm.

We need your help for this event!

Volunteers needed to help set up on Saturday morning, man stalls at the event and also help clear away after. If you are able to help with any of this please contact Lynne on 07734 221646 or email lynnethompson1@sky.com with the times you are available and what you are willing to do.

Creating your Duck...

Remember your duck can be any shape or size it just needs to have a duck theme, ideas could include Ducktor who, Vera Duckworth, a Bus conducktor etc...........

See what materials you have lying around your shed, garage, dressing up box! eg. MDF. cardboard boxes, straw, duck costume and feather boa....

Remember to display your duck by the 4th June and email its location and a photo to lynnethompson1@sky.com

Winners will recieve a prize!!!