Entries
We want to hear from you! The Butcher's Shop of the Year Awards honour and recognise excellence and innovation. You have a fantastic opportunity to display your company credentials, quality products, artisan knowledge, and support for the local community and agricultural landscape by entering the awards.
There are 11 categories to enter – and we guarantee that there will be a match among them for your location and business model. The Awards provide a national platform for positive media attention – whether a family run independent butchers in a rural location, or a chain of outlets.
The 2022 entry portal is now closed.
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The award is designed to celebrate the creativity of independent retail butchery businesses and what they are doing to attract customers into their shops as well as set them apart from the competition.
This can be any initiative, enterprise or business development undertaken in the past 12 months that you feel is above and beyond normal butchery retail activity. It could, for example, relate to your support of the local community or local supply chain, a business scheme, an environmental initiative, use of social networks for marketing and media work. It may be something else.
This award is for new entrants to the butchery business and is open to any shop opened within the last two years from 1 June 2020. Please note, this category does not apply to existing businesses opening a new branch.
This award is open to any online butchery allied to a butcher’s shop, farm shop, or food hall.
To be eligible to enter this category a ‘young butcher’ must be 23 or younger on the 19th November 2021. This entry should be completed by the young butcher themselves.
Please cover the following criteria in your entry submission:
- Why you became a butcher?
- Where you see your career heading over the next five years?
- Which area of your working life you enjoy most? and what area, if any, you consider yourself to particularly excel at or specialise in?
- Why you deserve to be named Young Butcher of the Year?
- List any qualifications/training/awards gained to date
- A supporting statement from your manager/employer on what makes you stand out as a young butcher