Organisers of a pasty relay championships are looking for teams to take part. 

The Redruth Pasty Relay Championships will be staged as part of the Redruth International Mining and Pasty Festival on Saturday, September 9.  

The engagement team at Redruth Town Council is encouraging local businesses, groups of friends, families or community groups to form teams to compete for honour of becoming the pasty relay champions.  

The new event will see teams of up to 15 people line up on Fore Street and pass a pasty to each other in an attempt to be the fastest team. The course will start by the Welly Dogs at Tatey Court and finish at The Miner statue.  

The pasties that will be used in the relay will be fabric to avoid food waste. Winning teams will be awarded special pasty-themed prizes.  

The Redruth International Mining & Pasty Festival is returning in 2023 after an absence of a few years.

The event starts on Friday, September 8, Miners’ Day, where past and present miners will be remembered with special storytelling, music and smoking of the mine engine stacks at Wheal Uny.  

Pasty Day will be held on Saturday, September 9 is with the pasty relay taking place around 11am.

A diaspora food village is planned along with more music, a market and pasty making competitions.  

The weekend finishes on Sunday, September 10 with the fun day in Victoria Park with a dog show, games, assault course, stalls and space hopper racing.  

More information on the programme for all three days will be coming soon; the festival guide will be published on August 25.  

• To enter a team into the Pasty Relay Championships, email Sam White at [email protected] with the team name and how many people make up the team.