Boxing Day duck race to return to Kenilworth for 2024

By James Smith 9th Dec 2024

Kenilworth's Duck Race will return on Boxing Day 2024 (image by Richard Smith)
Kenilworth's Duck Race will return on Boxing Day 2024 (image by Richard Smith)

The popular Boxing Day duck race is sent to return to Kenilworth's Abbey Fields this Christmas, Kenilworth Lions has confirmed.

Tickets are already on sale for the popular community event, which is still able to take place despite the ongoing works on the town's new swimming pools.

The fundraising event will start at 12noon on December 26 at the ford.

Tickets will be available for purchase at Kenilworth Market on Thursday 12 December and at Sainsbury's on Sunday 15 December.

The 2023 edition was the first to be held on Boxing Day since 2019.

The duck race was cancelled in 2020 due to the pandemic and the following year was pushed back to New Year's Day after the river was deemed unsafe. In 2022 it was cancelled due to the works on the Abbey Fields Leisure Centre.

Kenilworth Lions will also be running its second corporate Duck Race, having first launched the initiative in 2021.

Using the larger decoy ducks, local businesses are encouraged to decorate their own entry.

With each costing £50, the extra race also raises a lot of money for the nominated charity of the winning duck.

     

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