The Nailsworth Duck Race

31/05/2026

☀️ SAVE THE DATE! ☀️

Join us for the Nailsworth Primary School Summer Fete on Saturday 20th June from 12pm–4pm for an afternoon packed with family fun, fantastic entertainment, and community spirit!

🎶 Live music
🌭 Delicious food
🎨 Face painting
🌸 Flower crown making
⚽ Football skills with Forest Green Rovers
🥾 Welly wanging
🍭 Candy floss
🧁 Homemade cakes
🌿 Plant stall
🎟️ Games, activities and much more!

Bring your friends, family and neighbours along and help support our wonderful school while enjoying a great day out. We’re keeping our fingers crossed for plenty of sunshine and can’t wait to welcome everyone for what promises to be a fantastic community event.

📅 Saturday 20th June
⏰ 12pm – 4pm
📍 Nailsworth Primary School

Please share and help spread the word ☀️

16/05/2026

🦆🦆The Nailsworth Duck race completed!

Thats it for us this year!

🙏A huge thankyou to all our sponsors, prizes givers, ticket purchasers, and helpers both selling tickets and in the stream!

All who won prizes have been contacted.
You will be able to collect them from Nailsworth Primary school for the next week.

If you do not want your prize, we can donate it to our fete raffle in June.

Theres still lots happening for the Nailsworth Festival over the next week. Find out all the events here https://nailsworthfestival.org.uk/

16/05/2026

🦆Only one race left!!!!

16/05/2026

🦆 The duck races are in full swing at the stream! Pop along to buy your lucky ducks before they all sell out!!

£1 per Duck, cash & card accepted!

14/05/2026

Visit Gigg Mill and Dunkirk Mill
Step into Nailsworth’s textile heritage with special mill open days during Nailsworth Festival:
Sat 23 May – Gigg Mill open 10am–noon and 2pm–4pm
Sat 23 May + Sun 24 May – Dunkirk Mill open 2pm–4pm
Come along, explore, and discover how the cloth industry shaped the Stroud Valleys. Try your hand at weaving at Gigg Mill, and at Dunkirk Mill you can see the water wheel turning – a brilliant day out for curious minds of all ages.
Presented in collaboration with the https://www.stroudtextiletrust.org.uk/.

14/05/2026

🕊️ Living with Swifts – the Sirens of Summer is coming to Nailsworth Festival 2026!

Join Sarah Roberts for a fascinating and inspiring talk about one of our most remarkable summer visitors. Discover amazing facts about swifts, why they matter, and how simple actions can help protect and support their populations. Perfect for nature lovers, bird enthusiasts and anyone curious about the wildlife around us.

📅 Friday 23 May, 2.00pm
📍 Town Hall, GL6 0JF
🎟️ Tickets: £5

How to book - https://nailsworthfestival.org.uk/book/

14/05/2026

14/05/2026

13/05/2026

🛠 DJE property services race!

You could win:

🌳 Rococo Garden family ticket
⚽️ FGR winter coat
🐙 The Makerss Needlefelt under the sea set
👔 James Lear of Arundel £10 voucher

Such an amazing selection of prizes to choose from!

We will be at the Nailsworth Stream from 10am - 3pm this Saturday 16th May for the start of the Nailsworth Festival.

12/05/2026

⚽️ The TD Coaching race!

You could win:

🌱 Highgrove garden tour for 2
🧴 Storehouse No3 bath goody bag
💍 & Gorgeous £15 voucher
🥩 Country quality meat £5 voucher

🦆15 races | 🦆100 ducks per race | 🦆 £1 each | 10 - 3pm | Saturday 16th May