Cancellation of the 2021 Penrith Show

With heavy hearts the Trustees of Penrith Agricultural Society have made the difficult decision to cancel the 2021 Penrith Show.

Planning should have started for this year’s Show back in October.  Since then there has been much discussion, over a number of meetings, as how to run a COVID compliant Penrith Show.  We have tried our best, but we can only make decisions based on current guidelines and these would not be financially viable for our Show. 

Agricultural Shows like Penrith are not the huge profit making machines like some would think, but breaking even is preferable to a loss.  We always take a risk with the Cumbrian Weather, which has been unkind in the last few years, but to take such a risk in a pandemic is a step too far.

Instead, we will host an Arable Competition as usual in 2021, which is as socially distanced as you can get and save our resources to fund a full and exciting Penrith Show on 16^th July 2022.  So put the date in your diary and we will see you all then!!