Activate
Full info coming soon.
Active Travel
Lambeth Active Travel Team is again hosting a wide range of cycling elements at this year’s show. Find their cycle village next to the cycle parking by the Herne Hill entrance to the park.
★ Active Travel Stall
Come and have a chat to us about some of our projects such as Try Before You Bike and free cycle training.
★ Dr. Bike
A special biker’s valet service will be available to cyclists who ride to the event via Herne Hill entrance (Gate 5).
★ Bike Marking
Our friendly Safer Transport Team and the Policewill join us to security mark bikes and add them to the BikeRegister.
★ Lambeth Bike Market – Peddle My Wheels
Peddle My Wheels will be hosting a Bike Market near the Herne Hill entrance where you can buy a fully serviced, affordable, used bike at a great price. Alternatively, you can donate your old, unwanted, outgrown bikes which will be donated to upCYCLE who provide free bikes, cycle training, and bike maintenance workshops for young people from minority ethnic groups.
★ Cycle Parking
There will be 2 convenient cycle parking areas this year. They are located at the following entrances within Brockwell Park:
– Herne Hill Station (Gate 5)
– Tulse Hill / Brixton (8, 9 and 10)
Arts & Culture Village
★ Brixton House
Workshops throughout the day
Brixton House is a home of creativity and expression and aims to be a vital cultural beacon in Brixton. They attract, support, and inspire new artistic experiences that aim to develop our community solidarity and passion for social change in society.
★ This Is Book Love
Entertainment throughout the day
This is Book Love is an award winning collective of Educators, Artists, Musicians, Creatives, Aunties, Uncles, Parents and Grandparents working together to make multicultural matter.
More to be announced soon.
Arts & Culture Performance
★ LEKIDDO – Lord of The Lobsters!
The spreader of Lobster Love, is Lobsterliciously looking forward to performing and entertaining all the beautiful PinchyPinchyKissKiss peoples at the Lambeth Country Show!
★ E Squad
A children’s street dance crew called E Squad, ranging from the ages 7 – 16 based in Brixton. Their performance will consist of an energetic & entertaining dance to a variety of music and dance style genres.
★ Real Voices
We are Real Voices: a community of contemporary choirs in South London. We perform an eclectic repertoire of contemporary popular music that will challenge and expand your musicianship. Open to all regardless of level of musical experience, we push ourselves to achieve high musical standards whilst having a brilliant time in the process!
★ Mr. Wonderful presents The Lambeth Tea Dance
Mr Wonderful (aka Malcolm Fernandes) has been keeping London fit, healthy and dancing for over 30 Years by organising, promoting and presenting afternoon Tea Dances, hosting Evening Social dances and Special Events. He first started hosting Social Ballroom & Latin dances at the then Mecca run Cafe de Paris in London’s Leicester Square. He has gone on to host dances in all the major Dance Halls in London, Bournemouth, Blackpool, Margate, Folkestone, Harrogate, Coventry and Manchester.
Arts & Culture Workshops
★ Vegetable Sculpture Workhop (All ages)
Are you a fan of the Vegetable Sculpture Competition tent? Or would like to try something new? Come and learn how to carve your very own vegetable sculpture! With two time Vegetable Sculpture Competition winner Florence Creffield. Saturday workshop for ages 5-12. Parental supervision required for 5-12 year olds.
★ Shamha Drumming For Wellbeing (Drumming Workshop)
Shamha Vibration is a Community Interest Company based in Brixton, South London. They use funding from organisations including The National Lottery Community Fund and The London Community Foundation along with profits from our commercial activities to provide free African drumming workshops and free Moroccan food workshops in Communities throughout London, particularly the South East.
★ Happy Drums (Accessible Music Workshop)
Tony Bailey has been bringing families together through his diverse drumming classes. His sessions celebrate Lambeth’s many diverse communities. He uses inclusive facilitation – a method that encourages families from different backgrounds to contribute with their own traditional style of music.
Discovery
★ Immersive Experiences
Activities throughout the day
Immersive Experiences® are the multi-award winning experiences company, bringing stunning experiences to this year’s country show for another year!
Come down and enjoy a full weekend of science, history, music, gaming and more
- Planetarium and 360° Immersive Theatre Cinema with shows all day including Space, Dinosaurs and Music
- Historical Zone, including Archery, Sword School and Barbaric Battles
- Oculus Quest VR Zone
- Immersive Gaming Zone including Simulator, Consoles and Guitar Hero
- Hands on Science
Make Slime | Make a Sundial | Make a Lava Lamp | Make a Rocket | Build a Solar Oven | Make a star Projector
- Cosmic Shop, buy real space food ice cream, meteorites and goodies
- Competition: Complete an entry form, to be entered into a prize draw to win a free visit from our company
- STEM Board Games
- Kids zone and soft play area
- Dino Dig
- Story corner
★ XR Art Block Printing
Lambeth XR Art Blockers are committed to raising public awareness of the need for urgent action on climate, while we imagine a better world through the co-creation of images of nature and the human spirit.
Unusual and creative block printing activity onto T-shirts, flags, and tote bags, facilitated by experts. Always popular with all ages, learning about nature and our defence of it in a fun and colourful way.
★ Science Big Top
Plus many more organisations…
See your Discovery page for more information.
Eco Village
Featuring organisations and activities based around the environment and sustainability, this is the place to sign up to new initiatives and learn about how you can care more for our environment and be more sustainable in life.
What are we doing to reduce our impact on the environment?
★ Darren Cullen aka Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives
Darren is a satirical artist originally from Leeds, now based in south east London where he runs the Museum of Neoliberalism. Cullen is best known for his Mini Daily Mail, Action Man: Battlefield Casualties toys and Pocket Money Loans payday loan shop for kids, which featured at Banksy’s Dismaland.
His latest project is the Hell Bus, a pre-apocalyptic marketing suite about oil company greenwashing, satirising the absurd spectacle of oil and gas corporations attempting to convince the public that they’re going to help save the world from oil and gas corporations.
★ Greenpeace UK
Greenpeace is a movement of people who are passionate about defending the natural world from destruction. Their vision is a greener, healthier and more peaceful planet, one that can sustain life for generations to come.
★ Father Nature
Father Nature is a landscape gardening and horticultural organisation with soul. Their aim is to connect inner city folk, young and old, with the potential of Lambeth’s growing spaces, with nature, with one another. Their current sustainable community growing projects include building outdoor classrooms for urban schools, street-side planters for community growing, gardening sessions at communal spaces and planting parties wherever we’re needed.
★ London Beekeepers’ Association
The London Beekeepers’ Association (LBKA) is a volunteer-run members’ organisation and Registered Charity that represents the interests of beekeepers and urban beekeeping in the central London area. They provide education and advice, promoting responsible bee keeping and raising awareness of the issues affecting bees.
★ London Wildlife Trust
London Wildlife Trust is the leading voice for wildlife conservation in the capital. Several of their nature reserves, including Camley Street Natural Park, Gunnersbury Triangle, and Sydenham Hill Wood have been saved from development thanks to volunteers and supporters.
Alongside their volunteers, they manage 37 nature reserves across the capital including habitats such as woodland, grassland and wetland. They take practical action every day to help wildlife flourish. and we support national campaigns led by The Wildlife Trusts.
★ Serco Environmental Services
Serco provide a diverse range of sustainable waste management services to residents in Lambeth. Staff will be on hand to answer any questions you have. They will also be showcasing their fully upcycled and 100% electric waste disposal truck, which is one of the many actions being taken to reduce their and Lambeth’s carbon footprint.
The Farm
★ Vauxhall City Farm
All day activities
Our good friends at Vauxhall City Farm have been attending the show for many years and they will bringing everything except the kitchen sink with them. Their whole family of sheep, donkeys, alpacas, rabbits and more will be in attendence for their annual weekend trip, as well as various arts & craft workshops and the infamous ‘cuddle corner’.
★ Brymills Livestock – Sheep Shearing Displays
Best in Show Arena: 2pm, 3pm, 4:30pm and 5:30pm
★ Brymills Livestock – Lambeth Best in Show 2024
Displays and presentations throughout the day.
It just wouldn’t be a Country Show without a Best in Show. Farmers from all around the UK will be entering their best breeds of sheep to Lambeth. With 35 classes to enter livestock in to, you can expect to see over 100 sheep across 25 different breeds on display… all competing for Lambeth Best in Show 2024.
★ CJ’s Birds of Prey
Static Display – Both days: All Day
Best in Show Arena – Both days: 3:30pm and 6:30pm
CJ’s pride themselves on always giving informative and educational commentaries from their vast experience, yet manage to retain a light hearted and often humorous approach to the antics of their birds, who may not always work to their scripts.
★ Diggerland
Both days: All day
★ The Sheep Sh0w
This fun-filled presentation introduces onlookers to 9 differnet breeds. Each has a story to tell with interesting facts and figures relating to their variety. If you’ve never seen sheep dancing before, you’ll fall about laughing! We like a bit of audience participation too, so you’ll have a great time!
Flower Show
…in partnership with the Lambeth Horticultural Society.
There are 83 different classes to see, including the coveted Vegetable Sculpture Competition.
LCS 2024 FLOWER SHOW SCHEDULE (.pdf)
Flower and pot plant exhibits – Cacti and succulents exhibits – Bonsai exhibits – Fruit and vegetables exhibits – Floral art exhibits – Children’s exhibits – Domestic exhibits – Handicraft exhibits.
Family competitions, such as the Scarecrow and Recycled Garden, will also be making a return and you can vote for your favourite on the day.
Visit our ‘Get Involved‘ page for details on how to enter.
★ Brockwell Park Community Greenhouses
Brockwell Park Community Greenhouses (BPCG) is a community garden in the centre of Lambeth’s Brockwell Park. Their beautiful, large site includes an orchard, a series of demonstration gardens, a walled herb garden and two large greenhouses. They are open to the public and for garden volunteering four days a week, Thursday to Sunday, 10am to 4pm (GMT) and to 5pm (BST).
LatinoLife's Urban Soundclash
The battle begins for the hearts of London’s dance-hungry community, as the electrifying beats of Puerto Rican reggaetón face off the rhythmic pulses of Brazil’s baile funk in a ground-breaking musical battle at the LatinoLife Big Top Stage.
For the first time in the UK, these two powerhouse genres, widely celebrated in clubs around the globe for their vibrant energy and deep cultural roots, compete head-to-head in a sound clash festival format.
Expect an unparalleled showcase of raw musical talent as top artists from each genre bring the fierce spirit of Latin street parties to Brockwell Park.
See the LatinoLife page for full line-up.
Grooveschool Stage
Grooveschool (CIO) offer a range of music workshops that allow access to the basics of music production and DJ skills – regardless of age, ability or background. Students gain skills and confidence in handling the building blocks of modern music technology. The Grooveschool charity has been running free of cost workshops week in, week out for local young people since 2011.
Current programmes include: Amplify Young Styles, in which local DJs and producers are given training and opportunities to enhance their artists profiles; Deaf Rave DJ workshops, which are the UKs first DJ workshops for Deaf people; Connexion events with South London Cares, which enable the older generation to meet over conversations about music and playing records.
From their base in Brixton they host the Steele Got It podcast, which engages on issues for the local community and also work with Juvenis, giving local young people valued alternative paths to re-engage with learning.
For the very first time, Grooveschool will be hosting a stage showcasing the talents of their students, local DJs and producers.
Main Arena
★ Les Amis d’Onno Equine
The UK’s premier equestrian stunt team performing all over the UK and Ireland with their Friesian, Andalucian and Fjord horses. 12 performers and 8 horses will performing a ‘Knights of the North Stunt Jousting Show’ and ‘Trick Riding Stunt Show’ on both days.
★ CJ’s Birds of Prey
CJ’s pride themselves on always giving informative and educational commentaries from their vast experience, yet manage to retain a light hearted and often humorous approach to the antics of their birds, who may not always work to their scripts.
★ Best in Show Parade
It just wouldn’t be a Country Show without a Best in Show. Farmers from all around the UK will be entering their best breeds of sheep to Lambeth. With 35 classes to enter livestock in to, you can expect to see over 100 sheep across 25 different breeds on display… all competing for Lambeth Best in Show 2024. Don’t miss the main parade and showcase in the Main Arena @ 6:30pm on Saturday only.
More to be announced.
Main Stage
Village Green
★ Hootini Brass Band
Hootini is a nine piece upbeat brass band from South London. With a wide range of musical influences including jazz, Afro-Latin, hip hop, drum and bass, and funk, Hootini have a unique and original sound. Performing their own music alongside original brass covers,
★ Lambeth Sounds – young musicians from across Lambeth
Enjoy the sounds of young Lambeth with a mini showcase of talented young musicians from schools and local music projects as they perform a mixture of vocal and instrumental sounds for your listening pleasure – featuring SWeet! Recorder Consort CIC, Younger Youthsayers, Junior Tomorrow’s Warriors, Elm Court School Live Band and live band “Rolling Brook” from Heathbrook Primary school.
More acts announced soon.
The Original Wall of Death (New for 2023)
The Wall of Death has been synonymous with speed and danger since it’s conception back in the early part of the 20th century. The Original Wall of Death harks back to those early days, with the wall being constructed in 1928, and the bikes, Indian Scouts, made in 1921.
All those who see the show will remember it for the rest of their life. The noise, the speed, the smell, the proximity of the bikes ridden to the top of the wall, barely 6 inches from the audience – an experience never to be forgotten!
Paws & Pause Dog Day Care
Paws and Pause is a dog day care with a difference. Being the only socially conscious day care in London, we combine premium canine care with mental health support for vulnerable adults in the local community.
In terms of dog care, our focus is on the fun factor. We provide a safe, nurturing and enriching space for dogs and people alike. With an experienced and dedicated team of canine carers, we always prioritise our dogs’ welfare and wellbeing needs to ensure their stay with us is rewarding and fulfilling. The day is structured with play, enrichment and rest, with ample time for treats and cuddles in between!
Our original Brixton location has been going strong now for four years, and with the ongoing success of our trainee programme and dog care facilities, Paws & Pause is now expanding into a new location in Peckham.
Make sure to swing by our stall in the discovery centre to collect a prospectus and take part in some of our dog friendly activities, including agility and a dog cooling station. Humans aren’t the only ones who can have all the fun!