It’s egg flinging fun time at Swaton Vintage Day!

The Vintage Day was started in 1994 by a couple of local farmers as a way to showcase their ‘Pride and Joy’ vintage tractors and to raise a bit of money for local causes.

It has expanded over the years to become the world renowned extravaganza it now is.

The introduction of the World Egg Throwing Championships in 2006 saw its reputation grow massively through social media and television attention, with a couple of New Zealanders become the first world champions.

Over the years around £100,000 has been raised for good causes including the Lincs & Notts Air Ambulance, LIVES, the British Red Cross, McMillan Cancer Support, Leukaemic Research, Coeliac Society, Cancer UK, ShelterBox, Children’s Hospices and local churches and community centre.

The country show is still run on a voluntary basis by a committee of local residents and offers an excellent day out for the entire family, with the show field located on the B1394 at Thorpe Latimer, between Heckington and Swaton, near Sleaford.

Admission is £7 adults, £5 pensioners, £4 school age children, £15 family ticket, free for under fives.

Attractions will include a vehicle parade, live music, a range of food and drink and trade stands, novelty dog show and the fun-packed rounds of the egg throwing.

There are various challenges within the World Egg Throwing Championships beginning with two person teams seeing who can throw an egg at the farthest distance without dropping/breaking it. there is an under 13s category for this contest too.

This moves on to a static relay with 10 person teams tossing the eggs between each other at 10 metres apart, spreading after each successful catch. Drop the egg or break it and you’re out! Top five go through to the finals.

Preliminary rounds are in the side ring with finals in the main ring.

The accuracy challenge sees contestants aiming eggs at Joel Hicks, the annual willing human ‘target’. This is the only pay to enter game and is priced at £2 for three eggs to score as many hits as possible.

Always guaranteed to raise a giggle is the World Russian Egg Roulette Championship. One against one, contestants have six eggs but only one is raw. A trial of nerves they smash the eggs on their own heads until the loser finds the raw one.

The World Egg Trebuchet Challenge is gravity powered eggcitement where teams fire their egg-flinging contraptions to see the best results.

Finals will be n the main ring.