Choristers and bishops held their annual sponsored pancake race to celebrate Shrove Tuesday today (February 28).
This year’s race took place at 6.30pm, after Evensong, and included a ‘bishop and a pancake party’ to raise awareness of food poverty.
Teaming up with the Church Urban Fund, choristers, cathedral clergy - including two bishops - and musicians flipped their way to the finish line to raise funds and awareness for people struggling to put food on the table.
The boys, aged between eight and 13, wore their red cassocks for the event.
The annual race sees around 20 choristers compete around the 12th Century cathedral, which has one of the longest naves in Britain.
Lesley Ann Thompson, a spokeswoman for Ely Cathedral, said: "Choristers have taken part in a pancake race at the cathedral for as long as anyone can remember.
"It marks the start of Lent which is a period of austerity and it's something fun for them to do. The boys always really enjoy it."
Supported by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the pancake day fundraisers were held in churches, schools and homes throughout Cambridgeshire.
The church attributes the rise in food poverty to the price of food and non-alcoholic drinks increasing by 31 per cent in the UK since 2007.
That figure, it says, amongst various other factors, has led to serious consequences for many across the country, with the number of children attending their first day of school underweight increasing by 16 per cent between 2012 and 2015.
As free school meals disappear off the menu, £3 can provide one lunch for a child over the summer, while £9 will buy an emergency food parcel for a family for one day.
Meanwhile in kitchens up and down the country, people tossed and flipped pancakes for the age-old tea time tradition marking the beginning of lent.
The culinary event has become so popular this year St John Ambulance issued a public health warning about the dangers of burns and scalds caused by ‘flipping injuries’.