The 2025 PR campaign for Cumbrian event, Grasmere Lakeland Sports and Show, has become a finalist for a prestigious PR Moment Award North, in April 2026.
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The Sedgwicks Highlight Grasmere Sports’ Family Significance
Tommy Sedgwick, the Bellman at Grasmere Lakeland Sports and Show, is already counting down the months to next year’s event, on August 30, 2026, knowing it will mark 50 years since he broke the record in the Senior Guides fell race.
Swap Screen Time for Serene Time This Bank Holiday
Grasmere Lakeland Sports and Show is encouraging families to swap screen time for ‘serene time’, as it prepares to open the gates for its annual event on Sunday August 24. The traditional elements of fell racing, hound racing and Cumberland and Westmorland wrestling will all be in evidence, as the cornerstones of an event older than the modern Olympics. This year, however, there will be a brand new attraction. The event will also encompass the first ever paragliding race, the thrilling Grasmere Hike and Fly, which is parachuting into the programme.
Grasmere Sports Parachutes Paragliding Into August Programme
Grasmere Lakeland Sports and Show – an event older than the modern Olympics – is taking a leaf out of the book of Olympics organisers and breathing fresh life into its programme, with the introduction of a brand-new event for 2025.
Harry Keeps Career Ambition on Track After Grasmere Sports Reporting Win
A teenager from Whitehaven has made great progress in his quest to one day become a sports reporter, by being named Grasmere Lakeland Sports and Show’s Young Sports Reporter 2024.
Locals and First-timers Could be Rewarded at Grasmere Sports
Get your running shoes on, if you are local to the Grasmere area, or channel your inner resilience and resolve to have a go at a sport you’ve never tried, as both could see you picking up some rewards this weekend.
Grasmere Sports Strengthens Farming Connection
Grasmere Lakeland Sports and Show has announced a last-minute addition to its already packed programme of events, which will emphasise its long-established roots within the farming community and add even […]
Young Wrestlers to Compete for Honour of Being First Roger Robson Memorial Trophy Winner
Young Cumberland and Westmorland wrestlers heading to Grasmere Lakeland Sports and Show will have the opportunity to scoop a brand new trophy, poignantly named in honour of a wrestling legend and incredible ambassador for the sport.
Competitors Can Win Poignant New Silverware & Other Glittering Trophies at Grasmere Sports
As Olympians start to eye up medals, Grasmere Lakeland Sports and Show is making it known that it too has glittering trophies on offer – and more than ever before. […]
Race on to apply for fell-running bursaries
Grasmere Lakeland Sports and Show is going all out, for the second year running, to help shape a young cross country or track runner of the future, through the award of a running bursary established in the name of the late great, Pete Bland.
New Grasmere Sports Manager Has Hit the Ground Running
The Lake District’s premier traditional Cumbrian show and sporting occasion, Grasmere Lakeland Sports and Show, has a new Sports Manager at the helm – and it’s one who understands the world of Lakeland sports to a tee.
Molly Follows in Great-Grandad’s Grasmere Sports Footsteps
A strange case of serendipity occurred at Grasmere Lakeland Sports and Show on August 27, when it was discovered that a young reporter had unknown connections to the event. In […]
Legend Details What it Will Take to Break ‘Lakes Olympics’ Record
The history of fell running will fall under the spotlight at the weekend, as those watching the Senior Guides race at Grasmere Sports again wonder whether Fred Reeves’ long-standing 1978 […]
Grasmere Sports Celebrates the Return of The Bretons and the Icelanders!
Grasmere Lakeland Sports and Show is celebrating the news that 15 Breton wrestlers will be back in Grasmere on Sunday August 27 and competing for Cumberland and Westmorland wrestling prizes, […]
Sport of Hound Trailing Given Big Boost at Grasmere Sports
The audience at Grasmere Lakeland Sports and Show will be asked to ‘shush’ at times at this year’s event on August 27, as just part of an electrification of the […]
Search Begins for Grasmere Sports Young Sports Reporter of the Year!
Keen young writers should start sharpening their pencils, as Grasmere Lakeland Sports and Show has launched a search for budding young sports reporters, who can capture the essence of its […]
Lake District Children Invited to Design a Traditional Wrestling Outfit
To celebrate having been awarded the All-Weights World Championship as part of its 2023 Cumberland and Wrestling programme on Sunday August 27, Grasmere Lakeland Sports and Show is inviting talented primary school-aged […]