Community Competition
The search is on for this year’s Champion of Change
As part of British Food Fortnight 2025, we’re looking for inspirational individuals, community groups, and organisations that are driving meaningful change by growing, cooking or championing British food.
The annual Community Competition, run in association with Morrisons, our Official Retail Partner, is your chance to nominate someone who’s leading the way in promoting a deep-rooted connection with British produce. A connection that has the power to bind us together, sustaining the nation, helping us to grow physically, culturally, economically, and securely.
In short, we are looking for someone who’s a true Champion of Change.
Do you know a Champion of Change?
The newly introduced Champion of Change title celebrates those having a positive impact within their community. Do you know someone who is…
- Championing British produce in a range of settings, it could be in schools, universities, care homes, hospitals, restaurants, businesses or within their local community?
- Making a tangible impact by reducing food waste or food miles, promoting healthy diets, or supporting local food systems?
- Educating and raising awareness about the benefits of buying and supporting British food and why it matters?
- Increasing access to British seasonal produce and relieving food poverty?
- Leading a community initiative that inspire others to make informed, sustainable food choices?
- Increasing accessibility to fresh British food or encouraging others to grow, cook and champion British food?
- If the answer is ‘yes’ - we want to hear about it!
How to enter
- Nominate your Champion of Change using the nomination form below.
- Tell us why – Share how your nominee is inspiring others in your own words (max 500 word)
- Deadline for nominations: Midnight Sunday 12 October 2025
- Judging – Representatives from Morrisons, Love British Food and its ambassadors will review all entries to select a winner and two runners up
- Win the title – The winner will be contacted w/c 20 October 2025 and formally crowned Champion of Change w/c 3 November.
The Champion of Change prize
- Exclusive recognition during British Food Fortnight, including features on our website, posts on our social channels and press release to national and regional media
- We’ll host the winner at a congratulatory event with local and national food champions
- Receive a very special hamper kindly donated by Morrisons filled with amazing British produce to enjoy and share
- The winner and two runners up will receive a commemorative oak plaque
- Most importantly, our winner will be celebrated for the incredible work they are doing to make British food an integral part of everyday life
A word from our Official Retail Partner
“As a champion of British food, Morrisons is proud to support British Food Fortnight’s Community Competition and this year’s search for a worthy ‘Champion of Change’.
“This is a chance to celebrate the unsung community heroes who are working tirelessly to make British food the first choice on every plate.
“The competition provides an exciting platform to recognise those having a lasting impact on their communities by developing a stronger connection with British food.”
Joseph Clark-Bland, Morrisons Community Manager
What next?
Let’s make British Food Fortnight 2025 a year to remember – by recognising and celebrating those who are helping to shape a more sustainable, resilient, and British food future.
👉 Nominate your Champion of Change now
Let’s champion change, together!
British Food Fortnight Community Competition Winner 2023 - Farm Fresh Revolution
https://www.farmfreshrevolution.com/
A small food charity run by the entrant, in a part-time role, and an army of volunteers. They distribute high quality fresh produce to schools in low socio-economic areas of Staffordshire.
They deliver to approximately 200 families each week.
Runners up:
Somerset NHS
South Brockwells Farm
Highly commended:
Tilton Green Fair
The Cheshire Harvest 2023
2022 winner: David Smyth, Catering Production Manager of Antrim Area Hospital in Northern Ireland
David has led the way for hospitals in Northern Ireland to take part in the national food celebrations, creating a promotion titled ‘Celebrating Northern Irish food during British Food Fortnight’. He inspired other Trusts to get involved and his colleagues in other hospitals to join the Love British Food Hospitals Working Group. He bought Dexter beef farmer Sean O’Neil on board with all the activities providing an invaluable contribution to the discussion on local supply chains.
Alexia Robinson, founder of Love British Food says: “David has been the most remarkable leader in inspiring people and the results speak for themselves.”
David Smyth said: “It is a pleasure to be involved with Love British Food and Celebrating Northern Irish Food during British Food Fortnight. What can I say but thank you so much. I will proudly display the plaque in our restaurant. The catering team will be delighted with this news.”
2021 winner: Victoria Buob-Aldorf, Bartholomew School in Oxfordshire for the most wonderful British Food Fortnight school menus throughout the two weeks. Victoria also organised learning activities for pupils to inspire them to cook at home; and she involved the whole school and parents in the event.
2020's winner is Flo Osborne, 89, from Dovercourt, Essex.
During lockdown Flo made more than 100 pies for the elderly and vulnerable in her community.
Flo went above and beyond for her community. Thank you Flo!
2019 Somerset villages Great Harvest Trail
2018 the county of Hampshire: local food promoters, Hampshire Fare, worked with Hampshire Country Council Catering Services to organise British Food Fortnight menus and wonderful educational activities in 400 schools across the county. It was a tremendous endeavour and one that has inspired other local authority catering services. It is a beacon of how to put local food on school menus and make it exciting and educational for pupils. It was achieved through the inspiration and endeavours of two inspirational women whose vision extended across a whole county.
2017 Ginger & Spice Festival: a 4-day event celebrating the history and heritage of the town of Market Drayton and its links with the Gingerbread Man. The aim was to bring the local community together to discover, explore, re-connect and celebrate their unique culinary heritage, as well as promote and celebrate their local produce. It was such a success, the festival has taken place every year since.
2016 City of Bath & NE Somerset Local Food Partnership: an inspired programme of celebrations, activities and events during the Fortnight with more than 30 local businesses getting involved. Food festivals, cooking courses and a British Breakfast for all participating schools using local produce were just some of the activities that took place throughout the city during British Food Fortnight.
2015 City of Peterborough: celebrated food and the unique role that agriculture has played in the development of the city. A series of events filled the city centre with the sights, sounds, tastes, smells, songs and dances of the countryside finishing with an open-air British food lunch in the Cathedral square attended by hundreds of people sitting at long tables recreating a modern-day harvest feast. Most notably, Peterborough’s city centre food and craft market was reinstated after 50 years providing a wonderful legacy from the competition.
2014 Emsworth market town, Hampshire:
they created a food festival, not for outside visitors, but for the town itself. What they achieved was astonishing; two weeks of events with local producer markets, foraging walks, themed lunches, films about the town’s oyster heritage and tastings. Students from nearby colleges took over the Brookfield Hotel to prepare a three course Great British Menu. A food mountain was built in the centre of town and all the food was donated to the Beacon Food Bank. Winning the British Food Fortnight competition has inspired the town to expand the celebrations every year since and the whole town and surrounding area now celebrate British Food Fortnight every year. The vision of one man, Alistair Gibson, Emsworth Food Festival is now the benchmark against which we judge all other food festivals. What they achieved is truly astonishing. There is a fun film of it here:
https://emsworthonline.co.uk/Emsworth%20British%20Food%20Fortnight.html
2013 The village of Haslington,
Cheshire: our first winner and proof that small communities can also be winners. The whole community were hands-on in organising a weekend of harvest celebrations that truly gave a modern-day interpretation of the tradition of harvest festival. Farm animals were bought into the centre of the village, there was a farmer’s market on the village green, there was a whole village debate about food and farming led by local farmers and the local MP and a grand finale harvest celebration with local producers and the WI.