Parliamentary Pancake Race

Tuesday February 28, 2017 at Victoria Tower Gardens , Westminster.

10:00am

Free

Watch MPs, Lords and members of the press flipping crepes for charity.

Pancake Day’s most high-profile tossers are back for 2017 for this fundraiser which pits teams comprised of MPs, Lords and members of the press against each other. Now in its twentieth year, the race is organised by the charity Rehab, which helps people with mental and physical disabilities and the vulnerable to rebuild independent lives. This being parliament, oversight is of course necessary in the form of some strict rules: participants must flip pancakes continuously around the course as part of a relay team; ‘gentlemanly and gentlewomanly behaviour will be strictly observed at all times’; ‘frying pans must not be used as weapons or as a means of making unseemly gestures, whatever the depth of provocation or the nature of the party at the root of the provocation’; and ‘any surplus eggs, flour or batter must not be propelled in the direction of other participants or spectators.’ It’s free to spectate and usually thronged with photographers eager to capture the honourable members getting competitive while wearing silly hats.

Those representing the honour of the Houses of Parliament in 2017 will be announced in time.

Source: https://www.timeout.com/