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Boom! BOOMs bake the room

Awards now open to certified organic bakeries

Image © Soil Association Certification

Published: Wednesday 3 February 2021

The BOOM (Best of Organic Market) Awards are back in 2021 for their fourth celebration of excellence in organic. Brought to you by Soil Association Certification in partnership with online retailer Ocado, the BOOMs are the only UK-wide organic awards.

The 14 categories include Best of Organic Bakery, savoury and sweet.

Entries are FREE for smaller businesses* and this year the awards also feature an exclusive Ocado ‘Winner of Winners’ Award, the prize for which includes a listing on Ocado** and a package of benefits including marketing and social support.

Entries are open until 1 March 2021

*Certified by Soil Association Certification with a certified organic turnover under £250k, limited to two free entries per business.

**If not already a supplier, subject to having the required accreditations to satisfy Ocado’s food tech and mutual agreement of commercial terms.

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Chris Young has coordinated the Real Bread Campaign since March 2009. In addition to lobbying for an Honest Crust Act of better loaf composition, labelling and marketing laws; he created and runs Sourdough September; Real Bread Week; Real Bread For All; Together We Rise promoting therapeutic/social benefits and bread making; the No Loaf Lost surplus reduction initiative; as well as Lessons in Loaf and Bake Your Lawn for schools. He’s the author of the Knead to Know…more microbakery handbook and Slow Dough: Real Bread recipe book; and edits True Loaf magazine.

From 2014-18, Chris also coordinated the London Food Link network, which included editing The Jellied Eel magazine and helping to launch and run the Urban Food Awards. Chris has pulled on his judge’s wig for BOOM Awards, The Cateys, The Great Taste Awards, The Scottish Bread Championship and The World Bread Awards. In 2017, The School of Artisan Food honoured Chris with its first Fellowship.

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