Easter Monday Duck Race 2025

The Easter Monday Duck Race in Endcliffe Park is an outdoor event for people of all ages! Come and watch the ducks as they are launched into the Porter Brook, and encourage them on their way as they swim downstream on Bank Holiday Monday 21 April.

The race will see the release of 2,500 plastic ducks into the Porter Brook near the top of Endcliffe Park, and their collection at the finish line downstream.

There will also be stalls selling books, crafts, pizza, cakes etc., as well as fairground stalls, dog agility training, and face painting.

The race itself starts promptly at 2pm but stalls on the green opposite Endcliffe Park Café will be open for business from 11am.

A unique launching tower releases numbered plastic ducks into the brook just below the weir above Holme Wheel Dam. They float down the river for approximately 450 meters, where they are captured in a specially designed finish line between the café and the playground. 40 ducks are captured in a wire tube in the order they finish the race.

You can buy ducks in advance, online or at the Endcliffe Park and Forge Dam cafés. They will also be on sale on the day of the race at the start and near the finish line.

The winning duck numbers will be posted on the Friends of the Porter Valley website. All owners of winning ducks will be contacted in the days immediately following the race, using the details provided at the point of purchase.

The funds raised from the event will be used to replace the much-loved, but decaying, wooden ‘toad’ sculpture in Endcliffe Park with a similar sculpture, by the same artist, in more durable material.