Great Spitalfields Pancake Race

Pancake Day, or Shrove Tuesday falls between 2 February and 9 March, depending on the date for Easter. Pancake Day in London is traditionally celebrated with pancake races.

In 2014, Pancake Day falls on 4 March.

As well as eating pancakes, there's a long tradition of pancake races in London. If you don't fancy racing yourself, you can always cheer on the runners.

Pancake Races in London:

Pancake races take place across the UK, combining fun and fundraising. Participants have to toss pancakes in a frying pan while completing the course; not least among them is the:

The Great Spitalfields Pancake Race

SHROVE TUESDAY 4 March 2014
DRAY WALK, OLD TRUMAN BREWERY, BRICK LANE, E1. at 12.30pm

Get in training for Shrove Tuesday and join in the Great Spitalfields Pancake Race. All you need to get together is a team of four people suitably dressed up (or down) to enter in the relay race. Bring your own frying pan and we'll provide the pancakes. The race will be run along Dray Walk at The Old Truman Brewery on Brick Lane and all you have to do is toss the pancake a couple of times en route.

The heats will start at 12.30pm followed by the finals and the prize giving. Prizes awarded to the overall winners, runners up, best dressed and best behaved teams and there will be scrumptious pancakes for all entrants.

Get in training now and get yourselves sponsored. All funds raised go to London’s Air Ambulance.