BOOM Awards categories
New and improved BOOM Awards categories
We have revamped our categories for the 2025 BOOMs, with improved Food and Drink Product, Beauty & Wellbeing and Fashion & Textiles categories. We have also introduced new awards to support our vision of ‘Organic For All’, making organic affordable, available and accessible for all in society.
Sub-categories have been removed in favour of having more distinctive individual categories and these will be rewarded a gold, silver and bronze award, with the gold winner receiving a trophy at the awards event
Entries for 2025 will open on December 2nd 2024.
Look out for more information about how to enter, criteria and terms and conditions soon.
Organic Food and Drink Product Awards
We have 27 organic Food and Drink Product Awards, which will showcase the absolute best of what’s possible to offer the UK public from the world of organic, specifically relating to taste and quality.
1) Best of Organic Milk, Cream & Butter
2) Best of Organic Cheese
3) Best of Organic Yoghurt
4) Best of Organic Fresh Produce
5) Best of Organic Bakery
Includes biscuits, cake, crackers, breadsticks – all
baked goods.
6) Best of Organic Chocolate
Includes chocolate beverages.
7) Best of Organic Chilled & Frozen – Savoury
8) Best of Organic Chilled & Frozen – Sweet
9) Best of Organic Fresh Meat
10) Best of Organic Charcuterie & Processed Meats
11) Best of Organic Store Cupboard Staples
Includes canned goods, pasta, stock, herbs and spices.
12) Best of Organic Oils, Vinegars & Dressings
13) Best of Organic Preserves & Spreads
14) Best of Organic Home Baking
Includes flours, sugar, eggs, dried fruit.
15) Best of Organic Cereals & Morning Goods
Includes cereals, granola.
16) Best of Organic Beers
17) Best of Organic Ciders
18) Best of Organic Wines
19) Best of Organic Spirits
20) Best of Organic Tea
21) Best of Organic Coffee
22) Best of Organic Soft Drinks
23) Best of Organic Vegan Products
24) Best of Organic Free-From Products
25) Best of Organic Baby & Children’s Food & Drink Products
26) Best of New Organic Food & Drink Products
We are looking for exciting and innovative new products in organic, that offer something new and different to the organic market. Products are judged on concept, market need, ingredients, consumer insight and packaging alongside taste.
27) Winner of Winners (WOW) Award
The ‘Winner of Winners’ will be selected from the food & drink product award winners.
Best of Organic Beauty and Wellbeing Product Awards
We have five Beauty and Wellbeing Product Awards, specifically for products that are certified organic (COSMOS Organic and/or Soil Association Organic) and that feature creative and innovative use of ingredients and design, as well as communicating the benefits of organic.
These have two rounds of judging and three finalists from each category will be required to send product samples for testing so judges can score the actual product on:
- Sensory experience (e.g., smell, texture, visual appeal)
- Ease of use
- End result
1) Best of Organic Cleansers
2) Best of Organic Serums
3) Best of Organic Moisturisers
4) Best of Organic Pregnancy & Baby Products
Products that are certified organic (COSMOS and/or Soil Association Organic) and that feature creative and innovative use of ingredients and design as well as communicating the benefits of organic. All Finalists will be required to send product samples for testing.
5) Best of Organic Health & Personal Care Products
Products that are certified organic (COSMOS and/or Soil Association Organic) and that feature creative and innovative use of ingredients and design as well as communicating the benefits of organic. All Finalists will be required to send product samples for testing.
Organic Fashion and Textiles Product Award
This award is for finished products that are GOTS certified organic and feature creative and innovative use of materials and design, as well as communicating the benefits of organic.
These have two rounds of judging, and three finalists will be required to send product samples for testing so judges can score the actual product on:
- Visual appeal
- Hand feel
- Finishing / quality
Organic For All Awards
We want the organic market to BOOM, and this means organic needs to become more affordable, more available, and more accessible. Our six new Organic For All Awards reward people, businesses and organisations who are helping to achieve these goals. They will be desk awards with entries judged via a series of questions submitted by entrants.
1) Best Organic Champion
You might be a farmer, chef, changemaker or someone from a brand doing great things to champion organic to the public. This is an award for a great storyteller from the sector, for someone whose advocacy for organic is helping grow the public perception of everything we stand for.
2) Best Organic Supply Network
One of the key principles of organic is fairness. A fair and transparent supply chain is one that rewards everyone, and does so whilst making organic products more affordable, available, or accessible. This is an award for the changemaker – you might be improving link between farmers and their customers or scaling supply in an innovative way.
3) Best of Organic Out of Home
Organic doesn’t currently show up everywhere, and we believe it should, especially where it matters most. Finding healthy and nutritious food in an out of home setting can be challenging. Our public settings especially, often care for the most vulnerable, our children and the elderly, those with illness or that need extra support. We know that organic can go a long way in nurturing people. This award is for any out of home provider, working hard to get organic on the menu.
4) Best of Organic in Communities
Organic can be for everyone and we know if it is, the benefits of organic can be felt widespread. This award is for organisations and groups helping to make organic truly accessible and to champion organic from the ground up. You might be helping to establish better network links with communities or exploring innovative new ways to make organic produce more accessible to all.
5) Best Organic Retailer
Retailers are a crucial final stage of the supply chain that shape the public access to organic. This award will celebrate supermarkets, online retailers, indies, farm shops, health food stores and box schemes that are working hard to make organic available, accessible and affordable whilst properly rewarding the producers.
6) Best Organic Gardener
Organic belongs to us all and there is a vast, green-fingered community, passionately growing vegetables, fruits, and flowers using organic principles. Growing organically is an act of grassroots activism, and our gardens, allotments and community spaces are all better off for it. This award is open to members of the public to enter and will honour an individual who has created a beautiful and diverse garden using organic techniques such as companion planting, crop rotation and havens for beneficial insects.
Nation's Favourite Award
Nominated by and voted for by the general public, the Nation's Favourite Award is for the most popular organic product and this year, can include nominations for food and drink, beauty and wellbeing, and fashion and textiles products.
There are two rounds of voting. In the first round the public can nominate any organic product. All nominations are checked for integrity and then shortlisted down to the top ten. The top ten nominated brands must accept the nomination and provide a pic and brief product info. These are then promoted for a second round of voting and the award is given to the product with the highest number of votes.
Soil Association Special Contribution Award
This award is for an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to organic.
Entries are by nomination from Soil Association and Soil Association Certification employees.
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