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Events and training
Trade events and training
As part of our offering for Certification clients, we provide learning days. These events share in-depth knowledge on what organic means, the processes involved in growing and selling organic, and information about organic trade, including consumer insights and commercial trends. These learning days take place on a regular basis, merging group learning sessions with delicious organic food and stunning landscapes to create a fun, inspiring day for all involved.
Throughout the year, we take part in many industry and trade events. This gives us the opportunity to engage with people to find out more about what we do as an organisation and to learn about organic principles. If you'd like to know which events we are attending, please take a look at the links below.
We also host events and webinars for businesses who haven’t yet certified with us to help them understand the market and business benefits of organic certification, the application and inspections process, and how we can help.
Upcoming events
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Understanding organic: on-farm experiences
Immerse yourself in all things organic, when you join us on one of our ever-popular on-farm experience days at Yeo Valley Farm. You’ll observe organic principles brought to life; taking a break to feast in the award-winning canteen in between learning from our organic experts.
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GB Certificates of Inspection Webinar, 17th September 2024
As of 1st February 2025, all consignments of organic food, drink, feed, seed and livestock imported into Great Britain from the EU, EEA or Switzerland will require accompanying GB Certificates of Inspection (GB COI). Goods without a valid GB COI may be refused entry to GB. Soil Association Certification know that many organic businesses have questions and concerns about these important changes to import rules. To help support businesses, we will host a webinar on the 17th of September providing guidance on these important new changes together with details of known implications for UK trade and any potential mitigations discovered.
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Organic Trade Conference 2024
Join us online where we’ll explore the insights and opportunities for the organic sector.
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BOOM Awards
There are exciting plans in store for the BOOM Awards 2025, with improved Food & Drink Product, Beauty & Wellbeing and Fashion & Textiles categories. Entries will open in the Autumn, so sign up to Trade News to ensure you receive all BOOMs update
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Forestry training courses
We develop and deliver both FSC accredited training courses and other training courses under our ‘Excellence for Forests’ programme, all aimed at building capacity and technical knowledge for responsible forest management.
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Import and export events
Get more information on key export events your organic business needs to know about.
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