Launchpad’s 2024 Pancake Race

Will your team be the one to lift 2024’s Pancake Race trophy?

Join us at our eggs-traordinary lunchtime event on Shrove Tuesday, 13 February 2024. 

Teams register at Broad Street Mall between 11.45am and 12.15pm on the ground floor. At 12.15 All teams join a parade to the start line on Broad Street. 

They will then take part in a series of relay races, with knock-out races leading to the grand finale. Pancakes must be flipped as you race! Poor flipping will lead to disqualification.

The first race is at 12.30pm and the prize giving will take place immediately after the last race, at approximately 1.30pm.

In 2023, 36 team of four represented businesses and organisations from across Reading and raced for the right to win our coveted trophy. After many very close races our 2023 winners were a team from the creative agency TMW.

How do you sign up?

The entry fee for the race is £125 for a team of 4 all funds raised will help fund Launchpad's vital services for people who are homeless or at risk of losing their home. To secure your spot and batter it out with other businesses, please call the pancake hotline on 0118 950 7656 (option 5). Or email by clicking here by ASAP!

We’ll need your team mate’s names, and the name and address of your workplace. Launchpad’s fundraising team will confirm your entry, and arrange payment of your registration fee.

This is going to be a fab fun event in Reading this half term.