Virtual Lambeth Country Show

Virtual Flower Show Entry Form

Our 2020 virtual schedule is now live: Virtual Flower Show Schedule 2020 (.pdf)

Run in conjunction with the Lambeth Horticultural Society (LHS), there are 20 different classes to enter.

Flower and pot plant exhibits – Fruit and vegetables exhibits – Floral art exhibits – Children’s exhibits – Domestic exhibits – Handicraft exhibits.

Entry is free. Winning rosettes will be posted out to all class winners following the event.

Vegetable Sculpture Entry Form

Although part of the Flower Show Competitions, this class deserves a section all to itself. Our Vegetable Sculpture Competition attracts unrivalled interest and queues around the block from people itching to see these amazing vegetable pieces of art – not forgetting puns galore!

Entry is free. First prize is a £50 voucher.

Scarecrow Competition Entry Form

Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because it was outstanding in its field!

We want to see you getting resourceful with everyday household objects. There’s no theme, so time to get creative, snap a pic and send it to us.

Entry is free. First prize is a £50 voucher.

Recycled Garden Competition Entry Form

Plant anything from a mini vegetable plot to a flower bed. It’s up to you. Use any type of recycled container such as a shopping crate, a washing up bowl or even an old tyre. There’s no theme – your green fingers and imagination are all you need.

Entry is free. First prize is a £50 voucher.

Best in Show Competition Entry Form

This year we are challenging you at home to take part in our Best in Show. Simply grab your Mum, Dad, Cat, Dog or Granny and dress them up as a farm animal of your choice.

Entry is free. First prize is a £50 voucher.

We would like to say a huge thank you to all individuals and organisations that have contributed their time and resources in-kind to this virtual event. It just wouldn’t have happened without all of your efforts and contributions.

Carers 4 Carers

A charity group set up in Lambeth to support the physical, emotional and financial wellbeing for those who themselves care for their disabled, sick and elderly loved ones. They will be hosting some live morning fitness classes.

Little Giants Volleyball

Lambeth based adult and junior volleyball club that provide open volleyball sessions, beginner’s volleyball, indoor volleyball tournaments and grass volleyball.

Oasisplay

Oasisplay is a local charity that runs unique facilities for disabled and non-disabled young people in Stockwell, London.

Cycle Confident

A reliable, dynamic and progressive training organisation whose aim is to unlock London by empowering everyone to cycle confidently and safely.

More to be announced soon.

Aim High Dance Academy

Aim High Dance Academy provides an environment where learning both dance and life values go hand in hand and where each participant can become confident in his/her efforts and successes.

The Chocolate Museum

The Chocolate Museum are Brixton based with a mission to inspire a passion for learning about quality chocolate and its history both in Britain and worldwide.

Joy of Sound

Joy of Sound practices and promotes social inclusion through music, movement and creative arts. They run weekly year-round participatory music sessions, and regular combined arts projects.

Kids Kreate

Kids Kreate is a Brixton based art club where kids can make and create with freedom to their heart’s content.

Omnibus Theatre Online – Dem Times (PodPlay)

Written by Jacob Roberts-Mensah.

A young adult comedy-drama following the re-education of British-born troublemaker, Samuel Adjei, in a Ghanaian boarding school. All part of an online series of plays brought to you by Omnibus Theatre.

South London Samba

South London Samba are a drumming ensemble based in New Cross. They play music inspired by Latin, Brazilian, African and Caribbean rhythms.

TEDx Lambeth

An independently organised TED talk with the borough of Lambeth as its focus. TED is a nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or less). TEDx events help share ideas in communities around the world.

The Rig

Welcome to The Rig! An interactive installation combining percussion, musical exploration, creativity and adventure. Designed by professional musicians and artists, The Rig is a unique musical soundscape with an exciting visual impact aimed at kids from 1 to 100 years old! The ‘Team Rig’ family of passionate, fun and friendly musicians, host The Rig and love sharing its sonic secrets with you!

Ukelele Choir – Learn To Uke

The Ukelele Choir have been getting adults to strum their first well-known songs or learn some new tricks in an hour at London pubs since 2009.

More to be announced soon.

Charities and Community Groups from Lambeth and beyond make up a huge part of the show each year. Below you will find information about them along with links to the campaigns and fundraising they are currently doing to help raise some much needed awareness.

Age Exchange

Age Exchange provides creative engagement and support to about 150 people with dementia and their carers every week. The team came up with the idea of Reminiscence Arts Activity Boxes when the charity had to close its doors earlier this month due to the coronavirus pandemic. The team have carefully designed the contents to improve the mental health, mood and engagement of someone with dementia.

Black Thrive

Since the 1950’s Lambeth has been home to the UK’s biggest black community with people of African and Caribbean origin, making valuable and sustained contributions to the cultural and economic life of the UK. Black Thrive is a partnership between communities, statutory organisations, voluntary and private sector. They work together to reduce the inequality and injustices experienced by Black people in mental health services.

Brook

Our vision is that young people’s lives are free from inequality, rich with opportunity and enriched by happy, healthy relationships.

Faiths Together in Lambeth

Faiths Together in Lambeth (FTiL) is an independent, Lambeth-wide body, fostering constructive relationships among faith communities and promoting faith and multi-faith involvement in the civic life of the borough.

Oasis Wandsworth

Wandsworth Oasis are a local charity raising money for people living with HIV, largely through its eleven charity shops in and around the borough.

More to be announced soon.

Original Flava

Craig and Sean Mcanuff share some classic caribbean recipes from their excellent cookbook ‘Original Flava’.

Network Norwood (Norwood Forum)

Network Norwood is a new health and wellbeing social enterprise. As a Community Hub, Network Norwood’s aim is to help people connect in the real world by improving accessibility to community events, activities and services. Community life and having a voice in local decisions are all factors that make a vital contribution to our health and wellbeing and we believe that a person’s social network is important too.

A History of Coracles

You may have heard of coracles or even seen someone paddling one down a Welsh river, but how much do you know about them? You may even be asking yourself; What is a coracle? You can learn about their size, construction and how people paddle them on water.

More to be announced soon.

Royal Society of Biology

The Royal Society of Biology is a membership organisation for biologists worldwide, with 17,500 members and counting! We work to provide a unified voice for the biosciences for policy and education, and also bring the wonders and importance of the biosciences to audiences across the UK and beyond.

RSB have attended LCS for a number of years with their Biology Big Top and will be providing a series of videos on some of their favourite topics such as ‘Why do slugs and snails need slime?’, ‘How do butterflies drink?’ and ‘Why do leaves change colour in Autumn?’. Suitable for all ages.

British Society for Immunology

The British Society for Immunology’s mission is to promote excellence in immunological research, scholarship and clinical practice in order to improve human and animal health.

Institute of Imagination

The Institute of Imagination is a Lambeth based charity creating space to re-imagine our world, together. Their goal is to spark imaginations everywhere through our events, training, partnerships and research.

Brixton Windmill

Find out more about the intriguing history of the “two mills in one” and the Ashby family who milled there. Discover the history of the area around Brixton Hill and the other 11 mills in Lambeth.

Chucklehead Cider

Michael and Liz have been making Chucklehead Cider since 1993 using traditional methods and a blend of West Country cider apples. They will be putting together a short video for you to show you around their farm along with the process of cider making.

Healthwatch Lambeth (Before I Die…)

We are the independent champion for people who use health and social care services. We’re here to make sure that those running services put people at the heart of care. Our purpose is to understand the needs, experiences and concerns of people who use health and social care services, and to speak out on their behalf. We focus on ensuring that Lambeth people’s worries and concerns about current services are addressed.

More to be announced soon.

Bee Urban

Bee Urban is a social enterprise that aims to work with communities to improve the environment for the benefit of us all. We focus on responsible urban beekeeping, horticulture and community growing. It’s not just about bees, people are vital to Bee Urban.

Community engagement and volunteering is important to us, providing opportunities to contribute to the locality, be creative and reduce social isolation. We are here to work with everyone, whatever your age, level of experience or need. We are skilled in working with vulnerable adults, including those with mental health needs and learning difficulties. Everyone is welcome. You can read more about our projects and volunteering opportunities

Brixton People’s Kitchen

Brixton’s first food waste Social enterprise. Since 2011 they have been sharing food with strangers as a way of bringing people together.

Brockwell Park Community Greenhouses (BPCG)

BPCG is a community garden in the centre of Lambeth’s Brockwell Park. Our beautiful, large site includes an orchard, a series of demonstration gardens, a walled herb garden and two commercial-sized greenhouses.

Every Can Counts

Every Can Counts are passionate about the infinite recyclability of drink cans and aim to inspire people to do the right thing with their empty cans by recycling them.

OLIO

Olio is a mobile app for food-sharing, aiming to reduce food waste. It does this by connecting those with surplus food to those who need or wish to consume such food.

Red Line Action

We are celebrating recent commitments by Lambeth and Southwark for carbon neutrality. We need to make a COMPLETE and FAIR transition to clean energy and stop using fossil fuels. Children are engaging with the climate crisis and we want to help shape a zero carbon future together.

Trees For Cities

We get stuck in with local communities to cultivate lasting change in their neighbourhoods – whether it’s revitalising forgotten spaces, creating healthier environments or getting people excited about growing, foraging and eating healthy food.

More to be announced soon.

The Sheep Show

The New Zealand style team of presenters educate and entertain with their fantastic sheep all over the country. ‘Nobby’ the Norfolk Horn stands centre stage while others are introduced to their podiums. Learn about the attributes of each breed and how wool from the sheep’s back becomes a jumper to wear. The shearing demonstration will have you captivated.

Vauxhall City Farm

Vauxhall City Farm is one of the oldest and most central city farms in London being located within earshot of Big Ben and in the shadow of MI6.

Interested in finding out more? Take a look around their website, read about the History of the Farm, our Mission Statement and find out how to Support Us.

CJ’s Birds of Prey

The unique family run business of “CJ’s Birds of Prey” has successfully developed over the past 15 years to become one of the most popular and professional Birds of Prey Display Teams in the UK.

More to be announced soon.

Virtual Flower Show Schedule 

We welcome you to our very first Virtual Flower Show and are proud to continue our partnership with the Lambeth Horticultural Society in producing this year’s schedule with 20 different online classes to enter. These have been selected to cover all sections of our popular Flower Show including Flower and Pot Plants, Fruit and Vegetables, Children’s Exhibits, Flower Art, Vegetable Sculptures, Domestic and Handicraft Exhibits.

View this year’s Virtual Flower Show Schedule (.pdf)

See the ‘Competitions – Get Involved’ section above for information on how to enter, as well as our other Flower Show Competitions such as the Scarecrow, Recycled Garden and Vegetable Sculptures.

Royal Horticultural Society

The RHS is the world’s leading gardening charity and have been attending the show for a number of years as part of their RHS on Tour programme. We’re delighted to be working with them once again with a series of talks from independant horticulturists and virtual garden tours.

Adam Pasco

With over 30 years experience as a gardening journalist – including 22 years as Editor of BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine – Adam has worked as a broadcaster in TV and radio, and a horticultural consultant to the garden industry. He will be offering a talk packed full of simple gardening tips.

Bryn Bowles (Harptree Nursery)

Being an official judge comes with a lot of responsbility and technical know how. Bryn will deliver a talk on the ins and outs of being an RHS judge.

Pauline Macbride (Sussex Prairies)

Pauline will be delivering a talk on the Sussex Prairie Garden.

Sam Day (Kent Beekeepers’Association)

An Asian Hornet sighting was confirmed in Kent on September 9th 2019. Everyone is asked to keep a look-out for them. Sam will be delivering a talk about these very big and dangerous insects.

Stephen Powles

Stephen Powles, is a passionate and award winning wildlife photographer who often takes on the most challenging of subjects. He lives in Devon and has a particular interest in otters, tawny owls, hedgehogs and hornets and made three TV appearances.

A full listing will be made available here soon.

Immersive Experiences^® is the multi-award winning multi-functional digital VR, planetariums & immersive projection service provider. Boasting the world’s largest fleet of planetariums, domes and geodesics – they have been attending LCS for a number of years in Discovery and they are kindly offering live planetarium shows covering talks and films for our virtual event.

Find out more

Spaces are limited, so book your free tickets by using the links below.

Saturday is the main event and will feature a whole host of extra activities for people of all ages between 10am and 3pm:

• Live Astronomer talks with our virtual planetarium, including Q&A
• Meet the Scientist talk and live show, for careers in STEM
• Live Ancient Artillary shows
• Access to their online astronomy course for 1 week
• Access to some of their popular films, including Dinosaurs, Space, History, Biology and more.

Planetarium shows will be happening between 10am and 3pm on both days.

Virtual Planetarium Experience – Book your ticket here

Virtual Immersive Experience Shows – Book your ticket here

Saturday 18 July

11am – 12 noon: Country Show Wriggle & Rhyme special for under 5s

Lambeth Libraries brings you Wriggle and Rhyme live in your home! Join our librarians for songs, stories and rhymes for the under 5s, reflecting the journey to the show, the stalls, food, people, animals, plants, fair, music and the park. Facebook live @ Facebook/Lambeth Libraries: Wriggle and Rhyme Online.

11am – 12 noon: Summer Reading Challenge kids quiz

Join Librarian Zoey for a fun book quiz for children, lots of fun and book prizes to be had! Join her on Lambeth Libraries Instagram.

4pm – 5pm: Code Club Tasters

Code Club for children aged 9-13. It provides step-by-step activity sheets to create games, animations, and websites, learning the key concepts of coding at the same time. Join Ana on Saturday or Sunday, email for meeting ID and details ARodriguezPanadero@lambeth.gov.uk

6pm – 7pm: Lambeth Libraries Literary Lockdown Quiz

Lambeth Libraries book quiz to entertain and test your literary brain. Join Library quizzer Rossella. Email brixtonlendinglibrary@lambeth.gov.uk for your invitation and password.

Sunday 19 July

10am – 11am: Garden Storytime with Miranda

Our Book of the week is specially chosen by your local librarian with the Country Show in mind. Join Miranda in the garden on Sunday at Lambeth Libraries Instagram.

3pm – 4pm: Code Club Tasters

Code Club for children aged 9-13. It provides step-by-step activity sheets to create games, animations, and websites, learning the key concepts of coding at the same time. Join Ana on Saturday or Sunday, email for meeting ID and details:

ARodriguezPanadero@lambeth.gov.uk

Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 July

Lambeth Archives at the Virtual Lambeth Country Show

Lambeth Archives are spending the weekend reflecting on Country Shows from Lambeth’s past – check out some wonderful memories on Twitter @LambethArchives.

Sunday 19 July

2pm – 3pm: Why Parks Matter!

On Sunday catch the wonderful talk by Lambeth Archivist Jon Newman on Why Parks Matter! Available on Lambeth Libraries Instagram at 2pm.

Lambeth Recycles and Veolia Lambeth will be hosting series of how-to videos for you to watch whenever you like during the event. Videos will include:

• How to make a cushion cover from old textiles
• How to make a food waste caddy liner from newspaper
• How to use reusable nappies
• How to cook a zero waste vegetarian meal

The Arts Society

The Arts Society offers enjoyable opportunities to discover and support the arts of yesterday, today and tomorrow, wherever you are. Their events provide welcoming places – locally, nationally and globally – to hear excellent lecturers share their specialist knowledge about the arts.

Brixton BookJam

The Brixton BookJam is a free quarterly literary event that is unpredictable, eclectic, and aims to curate the very best in contemporary writing. From a-listers to talented unknowns, each BookJam brings a range of talent to our dedicated and passionate audience.

Poetic Unity

Poetic Unity is a Brixton based charity. Our vision is to give young people a voice and to empower them to reach their highest potential.

This is Book Love

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. In schools, libraries, galleries, on screens and even on our high streets – the stark lack of culturally inclusive representation, is sadly too obvious.

We at ‘Book Love’ have made it our mission to change this AND to change the narrative and the Travelling Multicultural Book Carnival is spreading the ‘Book Love’. ​

More to be announced soon.

CJ’s Birds of Prey

The unique family-run business of “CJ’s Birds of Prey” has successfully developed over the past 15 years to become one of the most popular and professional Birds of Prey Display Teams in the UK.

The Cavalry of Heroes

Each year the cavalry grace our Main Arena with unique jousting, stunt and theatrical shows.

Dog and Duck Show

As one of the most popular dog displays in the country, with over 100 events each year, the Dog and Duck Show team work extremely hard to educate the public about dog behaviour in a fun and enjoyable way for both the animals and owners. By using energy and body language, we show the audience how we control our sheep dogs at different stages of their training, while demonstrating simple techniques to help with common dog behaviour issues.

More to be announced soon.

Expect live music on both days from artists who have performed over the years, as well as some fresh faces.

Earl Sixteen

Born Earl John Daley on 9 May 1958 in Kingston, Jamaica, Earl Sixteen is a reggae singer whose career began in the mid-1970s. He’ll be performing some tracks exclusively for us.

Youthsayers

Youthsayers is a creative music opportunity for young people aged between 11 to 18 year olds living in the Lambeth area. The project was created in 2016 in collaboration with Raw Material, School Ground Sounds and Lambeth Music and are funded by Arts Council England.

Performances will be available to watch on Facebook Live, YouTube Live and Periscope.

More to be announced soon.

Oxjam Brixton

Oxjam Brixton are a part of our Village Green this year to bring you the best local unsigned acts who would have been gracing our second stage.

Lambeth Wind ‘Zoom’ Orchestra

Lambeth Wind Orchestra (LWO) is a concert band based in Herne Hill, south London. LWO performs a varied programme of music for the community at both formal and informal events, including the Lambeth Country Show each year.

Real Voices – Zoom Choir

Real Voices celebrates the fact that all voices are unique: some are trained, others are not; some boldly project, others are soft and haunting; some are clear, others are husky. With all these weird and wonderful combinations, the possibilities of what we can create when singing together are endless.

The Noteables – Zoom Choir

The Noteables are an award winning, pop chamber choir directed by Vikki Stone. Formed in 2012, The Noteables are a small group of like-minded singers who like to sing good music, whilst having serious levels of fun. They are all partial to gin in a tin.

Some performances will be available to watch live on Facebook Live, YouTube Live and Periscope.

More to be announced soon.

We love featuring local makers of craft and delicious street food each year at the Lambeth Country Show. We are sure you’re going to miss them this year as much as we are, which is why we are pulling together a dedicated Virtual Market where you can find out what they can still deliver to you during these isolated times.

Visit our Virtual Market.

We have put together a playlist for you all featuring artists that have performed on our Main Stage on Saturday throughout the years, as well as music from some well-known local heroes and songs we feel sum up the wonderful atmosphere of the show.

The playlist will be posted here on the weekend of the virtual event and available on both Spotify and Amazon Music.

Expect music from the likes of Jocelyn Brown, Imagination, Odyssey, Hot 8 Brass Band, Cymande, Incognito, Loose Ends, Osibisa and many more.

We have put together a playlist for you all featuring artists that have performed on our Main Stage on Sunday throughout the years. Sunday has become known as our Roots Day and has featured international acts from across the globe showcasing the very best in reggae, dub, ska, lovers rock and more.

The playlist will be posted here on the weekend of the virtual event and available on both Spotify and Amazon Music.

Expect music from the likes of Johnny Clarke, Dennis Bovell, Aswad, Dawn Penn, Janet Kay, Steel Pulse, Michael Prophet, Cornell Campbell, Max Romeo and many more.