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, as well as a whole host of cycling activities in the tennis and basketball courts in Brockwell Park.

ACTIVE TRAVEL LINE-UP PAGE

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★ Active Travel Stall

Come and have a chat about some of their projects such as Try Before You Bike and free cycle training.

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★ Cycle Skills Zone

Cycle Confident, Lambeth Council’s cycle training provider, will be running an exciting Cycle Skills Zone from 2pm – 6pm.

All the family  are welcome! Come along to the basketball and tennis courts and try your hand at riding the bike seesaw, balance snake and ramps, see how low you can go under the limbo bars or just use your own pedal power to get the boom box going!

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★ 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.

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★ Cycle Parking

Valet parking with FREE bike check.

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 (Gates 8, 9 and 10)

LCS 2024 Show Map (.pdf)

★ 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.

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★ 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.

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★ Jelly Rollers

Entertainment throughout the day

The Jelly Rollers’ mechanical dragon is a completely original interactive musical installation and work of art. Don’t miss it in the Arts & Culture Village on both days.

1:15pm – The Norwood School Sixth Form Dance Troupe

Students at The Norwood School study Dance as part of the main KS3 curriculum as well as having the option of taking Dance as a GCSE, BTEC or RSL qualification in KS4 and KS5. They perform regularly throughout the year both in school and as part of outside performances. We will see performances from the Norwood Dance Company as well as a range of students from extracurricular Dance Club who have been working with the Dance department, supported by teachers from Step Into Dance, to produce pieces in a variety of styles.

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1:45pm – The Norwood School Steel Pans Group

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3pm – Sing Out Streatham

Sing Out Streatham is a fun and friendly community choir based in Streatham and led by Xenia Davis. They meet on Thursday evenings from 7.30-9pm at: St Leonard’s Church Hall, 8 Tooting Bec Gardens, SW16 1RB.

They sing beautiful acappella songs from around the world, folk, gospel and pop in 3 and 4 part harmony. All songs are taught by ear. Sing Out Streatham started in January 2013 and they’ve grown to around 50 members.

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3:45pm – South London Choir

Established in 2006, the South London Choir is a non-auditioning community choir with over 130 members, led by the multi-talented singer/songwriter and musical director, MJ Paranzino. Over the years, members have organised a programme of community outreach concerts, at one point raising over £7,500 for various charities, in the belief that singing is a joyous and mutually uplifting experience.

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4:30pm – Segatastic Dancers

Segatastic Dancers are a professional UK dance troupe – specialising in Sega, the official National Dance of Mauritius. Performing in bright and beautiful national costumes, to the beat of the spirit of Africa, resonating through the musical instruments while the songs, sung in Creole, depict Musical Expression of the Mauritian Way of Life: Joy and Liveliness!

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5:15pm – Drum Africa Community Band

The Drum Africa Community Band began in February 2020. After nearly 10 years of running African drumming class teaching students traditional authentic West African drumming rhythms, they decided to create a Community Band: running ‘rehearsals’ instead of the usual drumming ‘classes’.

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6pm – Crystal Palace Brass Band

Crystal Palace Band (CPB) is one of the few traditional Brass Bands remaining in London. It consists of between twenty and thirty musicians and plays at a variety of events, including open-air concerts at Royal Parks and at the seaside, fetes, carol concerts, parades, brass band contests, parties and indoor concerts. Performance fees are charged and depend on location, time and number of players required. The band also plays and contests in smaller groups of four to ten players.

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7pm – 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.

1:15pm – Shamha Drumming For Wellbeing (Drumming Workshop – all ages)

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.

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3pm – Balancing Act Theatre (all ages)

Explore wellbeing through theatre devising, movement and storytelling. Suitable for all ages.

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4:15pm – Waggle Dance Workshop (all ages)

Take part in a mass waggle dance! Everyone has to learn a short routine to the waggle dance original track and like a flashmob we can bring the whole festival together in group movement. it will only take 10 minutes to learn choreography and then play the track twice through. Fun and joyful for absolutely everybody. Get involved with all the family.

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5:15pm – Joy of Sound (Accessible music workshop – all ages)

Joy of Sound promote and advocate for social equity and inclusion through music and combined art activities, public events and research in established and new community settings across Greater London, UK wide and internationally. Come and join in on their annual Country Show musical jam.

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7pm – 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. Parental supervision required for 5-12 year olds.

★ 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

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★ Science Big Top

Plus many more organisations…

See your Discovery page for more information.

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?

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★ 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.

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★ 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.

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★ RSPB

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★ 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.

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★ 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.

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★ 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.

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★ 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.

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★ Upcycle LDN

upCYCLE is an organisation established by Philip Dobson in June 2020. Inspired by the global Black Lives Matter movement, he felt the need to help young ethnically diverse people in London. As a person of colour, he was devastated to see the inordinate impact that Covid-19 was having on London’s ethnically diverse community, with young people forced to use public transport, which increases the risk of infection and passing it on to high risk or elderly family members.

He started off simply fixing bikes that were destined for landfill and donating them to charities in London, but after discussions with charities and community leaders he realised that much more was needed to get young people involved in cycling and, more importantly, actually keep them interested.

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★ Repowering London

At Repowering London, they are Creating Local Energy and putting people at the heart of the energy system. They provide much more than low-carbon energy to the communities they work with. They deliver a unique programme that includes social, financial and educational opportunities.

★ The Sheep Show

Both days: 2:30pm, 5pm and 7:30pm

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!

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★ 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’.

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★ Brymills Livestock – Sheep Shearing Displays

Best in Show Arena: 2pm, 3pm, 4:30pm and 5:30pm

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★ 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.

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★ 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.

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★ Diggerland

Both days: All day

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★ Ben Willis Woodcraft

Both days: All day demonstrations

The story of green woodworking reaches back probably as far as mankind’s relationship with timber. The term itself is a relatively new one, coined sometime in the latter half of the last century to distinguish it from what by then had become almost the universal method for working wood, certainly in industrialised societies, in which timber is cut, planked and seasoned before being worked. While this method is fine in its own way, it favours mechanised processes more suited to what by the time it comes to be fashioned has become a hard, unforgiving material.

…in partnership with the Lambeth Horticultural Society.

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There are 83 different classes to see, including the coveted Vegetable Sculpture Competition.

LCS 2024 FLOWER SHOW SCHEDULE (.pdf)

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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.

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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.

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★ 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).

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More to be announced soon.

See the LatinoLife page for full line-up.

On Sunday we leave the battle aside to bathe in the melting pot of sounds from across the Latin Caribbean and Pacific coast – from Puerto Rico to Colombia via Cuba – in a euphoric celebration of tropical rhythm, dance, and culture.

Prepare to be transported to the streets of San Juan, Havana and Cali at Salsa Splash, a celebration of rhythm, dance, and culture.

Featuring a stellar line-up of world-class performers, including Rene Alvarez and his band paying tribute to Hector Lavoe, the Omar Puente Charanga Jazz Sextet, Dorance Lorza & Sexteto Café, and Sarabanda led by Sara McGuinness.

Hosts Yanet Fuentes and Edwin “Salsa” will be accompanying you through this vibrant fiesta along with top DJs spinning sizzling Latin beats throughout the day.

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.

FULL GROOVESCHOOL LINE-UP

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.

Grooveschool will be hosting a stage showcasing the talents of their students, local DJs and producers.

Les Amis d’Onno Equine

Jousting Show: 3pm & 8:15pm

Trick Riding Show: 5:15pm

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.

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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.

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2:15pm and 6pm – Bob Hogg Sheepdog Display

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3:45pm and 7:30pm – The Lamb National

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6:45pm – FEFOBOL: Baila Bolivia

7:15pm – Ceilidh Tree

The perfect way to finish the weekend off is with Ceilidh Tree who will be leading you through a mass participatory ceilidh at the Village Green stage. Ceilidh Tree’s ace fiddles and amazing caller are guaranteed to get you dancing, whether you are ceilidh virgins or veterans.

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6pm – Brasstermind

Brasstermind are a 10 piece brass band from Brixton playing New Orleans / soul / funk / afrobeat / grunge brass sounds.

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5pm – JOM “Junior Open Mic” Mini Concert

JOM is a community group of parents that organise free open mics for young people aged between 4 and 18. Their mission is to ensure young performers feel as special as possible before, during and after their performance.

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3:45pm – Lambeth Wind Orchestra

Lambeth Wind Orchestra is a community concert band based in Herne Hill. The orchestra was founded in 2008 and has around 40 members who come from across London and beyond, though they are always keen to hear from people who would like to join.

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2:30pm – Raw Material presents Raw Vibrations

The Raw Material House Band comprises a collective of musicians from the South London community who all participate in a weekly session of instrumentation and songwriting in Raw Material’s own rehearsing space. The sessions are aimed at creating original music and showcasing the unique role that each member can play in the band, regardless of musical experience, background or skill level. This year at the Lambeth Country show, they bring a selection of new material, written and developed collaboratively over the course of the programme.

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1:15pm – The Norwood School Sixth Form Band

Sixth form music students at The Norwood School study RSL Subsidiary Diploma in Music. The students spend their time mastering their instruments and learning and rehearsing a wide variety of music and take part in numerous performances throughout the year, including gigs at well known local music venue The Railway Tavern in Tulse Hill… and now the Lambeth Country Show!

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!