How to enter the BOOM Awards

Everything you need to know about entering the Best of Organic Market (BOOM) Awards 2025.

Find the information you need:

Best of Organic Product Awards
Organic for All Awards
Public Vote Award
Soil Association Special Contribution Award
How the BOOM Awards are judged

Early bird offer: 10% discount throughout December 2024 for products and businesses certified by Soil Association Certification.

Enter in the BOOMs

Best of Organic Product Awards

How to enter

Entries open on Monday 2nd December 2024 and close at midnight Monday 3rd February 2025.

Take a look at our improved categories for Food and Drink, Beauty and Wellbeing, Fashion & Textiles and check the criteria to ensure you're eligible before entering.

Make sure you check the email sent to you to verify your account. If you entered the previous BOOM Awards, you can log in to your existing account.

Start your entry and save it to finish later. Ensure all mandatory questions must be answered and make the payment to submit your entry.

Some products cross over categories, in which case, you may enter your product into more than one category, for an additional entry fee.

We may decide to move an entry into the category that is more appropriate to allow the fairest judging.

After you have entered, we will share further information on how and when to supply your products for judging.

Cost to enter

£75 +VAT for Soil Association-certified businesses.
£150 +VAT for businesses certified with another certification body.

Early bird offer: 10% discount throughout December 2024 for products and businesses certified by Soil Association Certification.

If you enter multiple products, you will get 25% off for your 4th entries or more.

We offer one free entry for Soil Association-certified businesses with organic sales turnover under £85K.

Free entry code: use the discount code "smallbusiness" upon checkout*

*Only organic businesses certified by Soil Association Certification are eligible for the free entry code offer and you will need your Licence number to enter. Licences will be checked and any false application of the discount code will lead to immediate disqualification.

WOW Award

All entrants for the Food and Drink Product Awards will automatically be entered in the Winner of Winners (WOW) Award, which will be announced at the ceremony.

Ocado- Pitch Your Product

We are excited to announce our partnership with Ocado for the 2025 BOOM Awards. As the UK retailer with the most organic products, Ocado is seeking innovative organic brands and products. Food and Drink, and Beauty and Wellbeing entrants to the BOOMs will have the chance to pitch to Ocado’s buying team in a ‘dragon’s den’-style session.

Ocado Retail will in good faith negotiate the listing but it will depend on the commercial feasibility of the product.

Ocado Roots Award

The Ocado Roots Award celebrates the Ocado Roots Programme, designed to support and showcase start-ups and challenger brands. Organic Food and Drink, and Beauty and Wellbeing entrants meeting the criteria can apply for this award.

The Ocado Roots team will select the winner, who will receive exclusive guidance, business support, and access to Ocado’s insights tool, Beet by Ocado.

Organic for All Awards

Take a look at our new Organic for All categories and check the criteria to ensure you are eligible. Entries open on Monday 2nd December 2024 and close at midnight Monday 3rd February 2025.

Register on the BOOM awards platform. Make sure you check the email sent to you to verify your account. If you entered the previous BOOM Awards, you can log in to your existing account. You can then start your entry and save it to finish later.

You can then start your entry and save it to finish later, but all compulsory questions must be answered.

The Organic for All Awards are free to enter.

Public Vote Award - Nation's Favourite Organic Product

Any member of the public can cast a vote for the Nation's Favourite Organic Product Award, which must be certified as organic by an accredited certification body. This award now includes Food and Drink, Beauty and Wellbeing and Fashion and Textiles products.

Dates for voting will be confirmed in January 2025. Keep an eye on our website and social media for updates!

Find out more about the Public Vote Awards.

Soil Association Special Contribution Award

This award is dedicated to someone who has made an outstanding contribution to organic. Entries to this category are by nomination from Soil Association and Soil Association Certification staff.

How the BOOM Awards are judged

Judging will take place in spring 2025. Finalists will be contacted shortly after the judging to confirm they have been shortlisted for an award, by the beginning of June 2025 at the latest.

The Organic Food and Drink Product awards are tasted by an independent panel of judges. They are judged on quality and taste, not organic story. We regret that entrants may not attend judging.

The only exception is the Best of New Organic Food and Drink Product Award, Best of Organic Baby, and Children’s Food and Drink Product award, which are also judged on evidence submitted via the online entry form.

The Beauty and Wellbeing, and Fashion and Textiles Awards will be judged remotely and the top three finalists will be asked to send products for testing.

The Organic For All Awards are ‘desk-based’, meaning they are judged remotely by an independent panel of judges.

The Public Vote Award will be judged remotely in two rounds:

Nominations are checked for integrity and then shortlisted down to the top 10
Finalists will be promoted for further voting and the Nation's Favourite Organic Product will be awarded to the entry with the highest number of votes

View our Terms and Conditions for more information on judging.