Launceston Show Team

We welcome you again to the largest event in Launceston.
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On 31st July, our Showfield at Kennards House will be buzzing with activity, flags, colour and bunting, there will be buttonholes and bowler hats, carrying on the tradition of our 134 years.
The livestock will be arriving early with prize winning cattle and sheep, not forgetting the prestigious horse section, all of them prepared and manicured hoping to take a trophy home. Always a sight I love personally, seeing the trophies gleaming on the table then handed over to the smiles of the well deserved winners.
Each year we strive to put on the BEST day out for our visitors. Always the last Thursday in July, this year it falls in the first full week of the School summer holidays we are so excited to get our younger visitors involved. With competitions, free entertainment, free bird box trail, main ring events -  there is so much to get involved in, you just have to join in. That includes the big Mum and Dad kids too!
We can't wait to see you all, the Showfield will be packed with food and farming, tractors and trade. It's a great reminder how lucky we are to have such amazing local produce and appreciate where our food actually comes from.
Something for everyone..... we hope the sun will come too.
It takes us all year to prepare for the Show, I thank everyone for their help, my amazing Committee, the Sponsors, the Volunteers, the Stewards, so many people who give up their time for the love of the Show. I hope you will come and join us.

Thank you ~ Sharon Horsington, Show Secretary

Here's his message to you all:

I have been proud to be the Chairman of Launceston Show for 20 years - this will be my last Show leading a fabulous Committee. We need to keep changing to keep up with the changing world, so I feel it is the right time to stand back and watch the next generation take the Show forward.

Launceston Show has always been the highlight of my year. As a sheep farmer, I am delighted the livestock numbers increase year on year, showing just how popular farming still is. Evermore we need to celebrate the locally sourced foods we have, which our local farmers produce. Town really does meet country, we need each other, the Show is the perfect opportunity for meeting and chatting. Finding out where where our food comes from has never been more important.

The show continues to attract 200 trade stands, many returning year after year. Caterers offer tasty foods. The big machinery, the chainsaw carving, floral displays, children's entertainers, music and dance on the main stage - is all there for us all to enjoy. We are grateful to the Young Farmers who are always relied on to be having fun, I was a Young Farmer and enjoyed enormously the fun and friends it offered me.

I have been fortunate over my term to view all the Showfield whilst escorting the President. I have worn wellies and I've caught the sun. There have been some memorable times, pulling out vehicles in the mud, the difficult years of foot and mouth and covid. The amazing years with fabulous weather and record breaking visitor numbers spilling out of the car parks.

None of this could I have done without Hilary, my wife, by my side. Once one year is over, preparations start for the next year. Changes will continue to be made to ensure the Show progresses, we will both still be involved, sitting in a different chair, in the Committee rather than leading it.

So as the Show approaches, we look forward to all it offers and welcome you to join us for the best day for all the family.

- Hold a Horse Show for the district and that a Public Meeting should be held in the Guildhall, Launceston on Saturday 26th February 1887 to elect a committee and make all necessary arrangements.

- Following this second meeting it was agreed to make the sum of £130 available for prize money and that Thursday 21st August 1887 be fixed as the date of the first Launceston Show.