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Free From Food Awards

The UK's only industry awards for free from food & drink

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    • Entry Criteria at a glance
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Taking Part

FreeFrom Food Awards #FFFA21 Key Dates

  • Entry opens on Monday 21st September 2020
  • Early bird 10% discount ends on 31st October 2020
  • Entry closes on Sunday 6th December 2020
  • Information about samples delivery dates & locations for entrants sent out mid-December
  • Judging takes place March/April 2021
  • Shortlist published April 2021
  • Awards’ Presentation party is on 27th May 2021

To qualify

  • To qualify for entry to the FreeFrom Food Awards, all entries must be free of at least one of the 14 major allergens
  • All entries must be available nationwide either in retail or by mail order by the 1st March 2021.
  • All entries submitted for judging must be products on sale to the public and not pre-production samples.

Entry Fees

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Some of the benefits of entering

  • Your brand will be welcomed and featured on our popular social media pages.
  • You’ll get a FreeFrom Food Awards entrant logo, and if you win, winners’ logos to use in your marketing and communication.
  • You’ll receive an invitation to our legendary FreeFrom networking Awards’ Presentation party.
  • You’ll be able to make use of our marketing materials to promote your entry!
  • You’ll get free valuable feedback on your products from our expert judges.
  • You’ll join a large community of mutually supportive yet competitive freefrom brands!
  • Sharing your awards involvement on social media creates a journey that customers can follow, building brand awareness.

How to enter

  • Please read the rules of the awards first. It is a condition of entry that all entrants will be bound by these rules. If you have any queries, please contact us.
  • Then decide on which category/categories you wish to enter – see here for the full list.
  • Please complete a company entry form.   You will find a section for companies with more than three employees and a section for companies with fewer than three employees. Please be sure you choose the right one.
  • Please make your payment or request an invoice.
  • Once your payment has been made, or your invoice requested, please go to the product entry forms – please complete one form per product entered.

What happens next?

  • Once we receive notification that you have entered and paid, we will email you an ‘entrant’ logo for you to use on your site and in your social media posts.
  • We will welcome you on our social media channels. Our hashtag is #FFFA21

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Judging and beyond

  • Judging will take place during March/April.
  • Due to national lockdown, we have postponed judging – we will tell you when & where to send samples as soon as we can confirm new dates.
  • Do not send samples until you have received the precise instructions.
  • Entered products are presented to independent expert judges for their comments and scores, and the shortlist and winners are decided with Gold, Silver and Bronze medals available in each category. More info on judging here
  • The Gold winners of each category are taken forward to a separate judging in which the Overall Best FreeFrom Product of the Year is determined.
  • Once the judging sessions are complete we will announce the Shortlist.
  • Invitations to the Awards’ Presentation will be sent out in good time.

Awards' Presentation

  • Entering the awards entitles each brand to one free ticket to the awards presentation party.
  • The party is a networking event where drinks & freefrom canapés will be served.
  • The winners of the awards will be announced during the evening.
  • The Overall Best FreeFrom Product of the Year will be presented with a trophy.
  • Once the presentations are over, all the Winning products will be showcased in the Winner’s Buffet bought for the event by our undercover secret shoppers.

And after the Awards' Presentation?

  • We will email winners’ logos to all winning brands.
  • We will issue press releases about the awards and winners, and encourage all winners to publicise their wins.
  • We will support winners and entrants where we can through social media. Our hashtag is #FFFA21.
  • Photographs of the presentation and party will be available free for you to download and use.
  • Feedback on all your entered products is available in the weeks after the awards.

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The Gallery

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Marie-Laure Prevost, Fermenti

I just wanted to thank you for your Entrant Feedback 2023 of our product.

It’s a very useful tool and I am still referring to it for ideas. So, many thanks!

Nairn’s

The Free From Food Awards are one of the most credible awards on the circuit, and we tend to enter products every year.  Much of our innovation in recent years has been in the gluten free side of our business so it’s a great opportunity for us to showcase some of our new products.  To free from consumers, displaying the winners logo on pack is a sign of quality and safety, and a win certainly adds value to the conversations our sales team have with their buyer contacts when talking about listings.  The awards themselves are really straightforward to enter and very well organised and they’re attracting some great brands, both big and small, to enter which highlights just how far free from foods have come in recent years.

Bute Island

This year (2018) we won Gold at the Free From Food Awards for our Dairy Free Grated Mild Cheddar Sheese. We have submitted products to these awards over the last ten years, and have been proud to win awards for various products. The process of entering the products is clear and straight  forward. The Bute Island team have attended several of the awards ceremonies and found them to be not only enjoyable, but beneficial for the business. It’s always been a pleasure and an honour to be part of the Free From Awards.

ChocChick

We have been entering the FFF Awards since 2010 and have had some incredible networking opportunities, caught up with industry leaders, begun collaborations and even met with senior buyers who listed our products in stores, so to have won Gold this year for our Cacao Nibbles was the icing on the cake. We are incredibly proud to be part of the Free From family.

Mina Said-AllsoppWildcraft Bakery

The networking opportunities at the FFFA18 party have been really amazing – we’ve met people we have been following on instagram and twitter… We met the founder of Genius which is… AMAZING! We are so excited to put the freefrom logo on our website and all our products.

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Greg Taylor Managing Director, Retrocorn

Our win opened a door to a national distributor in the UK allowing us to get our popcorn in front of all the big UK contract caterers, winning new business with Baxter Storey, Caterlink and many others!  A fantastic award like this really does get you noticed!  We are delighted with our win and will be entering our Hasta La Vista in next years award 100%

 

Emma HeathNairn’s

For us at Nairn’s, winning gold is as much about internal reward as it is about anything external or consumer facing.  For those involved in developing and trialling the products and bringing them to market, winning any of the FFAs further recognition of a job well done and gives a real sense of pride and achievement to the team.

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Sue WarrenStrategic Development Director, Unismack

The FFFA have been at the forefront of driving innovation, awareness and availability of an increasing range in the Free From arena since before it was a trend. The FreeFrom Food awards remain a focus point for the industry and are a great platform for communication and engagement

Julia MarriottDietitian, allergy sufferer and judge at #FFFA

The website gives one place where parents can go and look to see which companies have been shortlisted, who won… it’s a great chance to see the range of products available on the freefrom market that aren’t just in their local supermarkets. Products that have got the FreeFrom Food Awards logo give parents confidence that not only do they taste good, but they have been checked for ingredients and safe manufacturing processes, that sort of thing – it gives them confidence in the products they are choosing.

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