Nottingham Racecourse will host Racing Together Industry Day on 6th February 2025. This key event brings together a range of leaders and active practitioners working across community engagement, in racing and other sports.

The theme of this year’s Racing Together Industry Day is:

‘Transactional or Transformational – the real value of racing’

Baroness Dido Harding, Senior Steward at The Jockey Club is confirmed as the keynote speaker. Other contributors from horseracing; the wider sporting world and across the charity and commercial sectors will be announced in due course.

Delegate prices have been held at this year’s rate and early-bird tickets at £75 are now on sale until 6th January, and can be purchased here.

The day includes welcome refreshments and lunch. There will also be an opportunity for attendees to meet a very special retired racehorse as part of the event.

John Blake, CEO of Racing Together said: “The support and feedback from the inaugural Industry Day at Ascot and also this year’s event at Chester, evidenced an appetite for honest exploration of the progress and potential of community engagement across racing.

“Building on past themes, while bringing new voices and experiences to our audience is the challenge of this day and will be the measure of its success. The hope is for guest speakers to trigger an assessment of whether racing can claim an authentic role supporting social cohesion, or if its range of community outcomes amount to an intermittent by-product of commercial success.”

Racing Together Industry Day is supported by the HBLB; the Racecourse Association and The Racing Foundation.

The full-day seminar programme and speaker information will follow in due course.

The Racing Foundation has kindly agreed to cover the cost of tickets for up to two representatives of small charities. To check eligibility, please contact matt@racingtoschool.co.uk.