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Pasty festival returns! The festival, set to run from Friday 8th to Sunday 10th September, will include a Miners’ Day on the Friday, Pasty Day on the Saturday and a Fun Day on the Sunday. A number of competitions will also take place on the Saturday with some fantastic pasty-themed prizes to be won which have been supplied by our friends at Rowe’s and the Cornish Pasty Association. All competition details are below and the the full festival event details can be found here – International Mining and Pasty Festival

Best Cornish Pasty Under 18s

Think you can make the best traditional Cornish Pasty? Enter it into our Pasty Competition.

Rules:

  1. Your pasty must only use traditional ingredients – Genuine Cornish Pasty : Cornish Pasty Association
  2. Your pasty must be crimped on the side

How to enter:

  1. Read the rules above
  2. Make your traditional Cornish Pasty
  3. Bring your creation to the competition tent in the Alcove between 10:30am and 11:30am on Saturday 9th September 2023 for judging.
  4. Fill out an entry form when you drop off your creation.

Prizes:

  • 20 frozen Pima pasties (voucher) from our friends at the The Cornish Pasty Association will be presented to the winner at 2:30pm.

Please make sure you read the trail T&C’s before entering – best-pasty-competition-under18-terms-and-conditions.pdf

Best Cornish Pasty 18+

Think you can make the best traditional Cornish Pasty? Enter it into our Pasty Competition.

Rules:

  1. Your pasty must only use traditional ingredients – Genuine Cornish Pasty : Cornish Pasty Association
  2. Your pasty must be crimped on the side

How to enter:

  1. Read the rules above
  2. Make your traditional Cornish Pasty
  3. Bring your creation to the competition tent in the Alcove between 10:30am and 11:30am on Saturday 9th September 2023 for judging.
  4. Fill out an entry form when you drop off your creation.

Prizes:

  • A Cornish hamper from our friends at the The Cornish Pasty Association will be presented to the winner at 2:30pm.

Please make sure you read the trail T&C’s before entering – best-pasty-competition-terms-and-conditions.pdf

Most Creative Pasty

If you’ve got an alternative pasty flavour worthy of a prize this pasty competition category is for you.

How to enter:

  1. Read the rules above
  2. Make your traditional Cornish Pasty
  3. Bring your creation to the competition tent in the Alcove between 10:30am and 11:30am on Saturday 9th September 2023 for judging.
  4. Fill out an entry form when you drop off your creation.

Prizes:

  • A Cornish hamper from our friends at the The Cornish Pasty Association will be presented to the winner at 2:30pm.

Please make sure you read the T&C’s before entering – most-creative-pasty-competition-terms-and-conditions.pdf

Best Crafted Pasty

If you don’t like to bake and are a bit of a rockstar crafter this pasty competition category is for you.

How to enter:

  1. Read the rules above
  2. Make your traditional Cornish Pasty
  3. Bring your creation to the competition tent in the Alcove between 10:30am and 11:30am on Saturday 9th September 2023 for judging.
  4. Fill out an entry form when you drop off your creation.

Prizes:

  • 20 frozen Proper Cornish pasties (voucher) from our friends at the The Cornish Pasty Association will be presented to the winner at 2:30pm.

Please make sure you read the trail T&C’s before entering – crafted-pasty-competition-terms-and-conditions.pdf

Redruth Pasty Relay Championships

Teams of 10-15 people have the chance to enter the Redruth Pasty Relay Championships as part of the Redruth International Mining & Pasty Festival on Saturday 9th September.

This new event will see teams of 10 to 15 people pass a pasty (non-edible) 50m from the Welly Dogs at Tatey Court to The Miner Statue in fastest time possible. There will be several heats starting at 11am followed by the grand final.

Prizes:

  • The winning team will then be represented with a chocolate ‘pasty’ cake baked especially for the event by Rowe’s.
  • 2nd and 3rd will receive a Prima hamper box from The Cornish Pasty Association.

Anyone can enter, all you need is a team name and 10-15 people.

To enter a team email

Pasty Trail

Can you find the hidden word in the 5 pasty shops in Redruth?

How to enter:

  1. Pick up a trail card from our information point on Fore Street on Saturday 9th September.
  2. Complete the trail and fill out the trail card.
  3. Return your trail card to our information point by 2pm on Saturday 9th September to enter the prize draw.

Prizes:

  • 1st prize – 1 year supply of Rowe’s pasties (voucher).
  • 2nd prize – a Rowe’s home delivery box (voucher).

Please make sure you read the trail T&C’s before entering – pasty-trail-competition-terms-and-conditions-2023.pdf

Tolgus Outfit Design

For those of you who don’t know, Tolgus is Redruth’s mascot. He’s a huge fibreglass lamb that can be spotted wearing various themed costumes in the library and during parades on festival days. But while Tolgus has many themed costumes, we’ve realised he’s missing an everyday outfit and we want your help in creating one.

How to enter:

  1. Pick up (or download one below) a design sheet from the library.
  2. Create your design.
  3. Hand your design sheet into Redruth Library by 5pm on Monday 11th September 2023 to be in for a chance of your design being made into his next outfit.

Please make sure you read the competition T&C’s and include your contact details on the design sheet as we’ll need to contact you if you’ve won – tolgus-outfit-competition-terms-and-conditions.pdf

Design Sheet