News Release

13th January 2009

Ducks Go Quackers This Easter!

Fancy witnessing 5,000 ducks racing along the river to win prizes for their ‘owners’ this Easter Monday 13th April 2009? Then the Lenchford Inn, Shrawley in Worcestershire is playing host to a huge charity duck race for Feed The Children (UK). The ‘quack off’ is at 3.00 pm and ducks cost just £2 each. Click to buy a duck today!

Fabulous prizes include £800 of holiday vouchers, cash, a weekend stay at the Lenchford Inn, a spa pamper day at Brandon Hall Hotel, an organic chocolate hamper from the Chocolate Alchemist and £50 of Wilkinson vouchers.

Tickets can be bought from the Lenchford Inn, or by calling Feed The Children (UK) on 0118 932 0095 or see www.feedthechildren.org.uk.

“Thanks to the Lenchford Inn and our other supporters, we look forward to a great day raising much needed funds to support vulnerable children in the UK and abroad,” says Brian Main, Feed The Children (UK)’s chief executive. “Do come along and join us for a quacking good time.”

Feed The Children (UK) works worldwide, as well as within the UK, to develop sustainable communities and provide food and other necessities for those in great need.  The charity concentrates aid on children suffering the affects of poverty, especially those orphaned or abandoned. The charity believes that wherever there is famine, conflict, disease or poverty, it is always the children who are most vulnerable.

Feed The Children (UK) registered in 1994 and over the years the charity has helped millions of children and their families both at home and abroad. The charity relies on gifts from generous companies, individuals and organisations to donate the goods and financial assistance needed in order to support the various humanitarian and relief projects.