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And the best marmalade makers are….
- Winners of the 2012 Marmal’Oscars’ revealed – On the same weekend as the Oscars, a woman from Milnthorpe in Cumbria has received her very own golden gong – but not for a movie blockbuster. Hazel Rushton has been crowned the world’s best amateur marmalade maker at this year’s ‘Oscars’ of the marmalade world – The World’s [...]
Record entries get toasted at Marmalade Awards
Press release: 23 February 2012 - Over 1,700 entries including Australian ‘MarmalAshes’ team – A record number of marmalade makers from all over the world have sent in their jars to be judged at this weekend’s The World’s Original Marmalade Awards & Festival, giving a big sticky thumbs up to this most British of preserves. [...]
Last call for marmalade makers to enter their jars
- Deadlines for entries: artisan 12 February, amateur 19 February – Marmalade makers wanting to enter The World’s Original Marmalade Awards & Festival have just days left to perfect their citrusy concoctions, parcel up their jars and post them off for judging. Artisan entries for the 2012 Awards need to be received no later than [...]
Scotland’s marmalade makers get a chance to prove they are a cut above
Marmalade lovers from across Scotland are being encouraged to enter their own marmalade in the prestigious, and quirky, culinary contest – The World’s Original Marmalade Awards & Festival. For centuries Scotland has been the home of marmalade, with the preserve as we know it, first produced in Dundee, by the Keiller family in 1797. Now [...]
What our artisan winners say – Perthshire Preserves
Ian B Mackenzie from Perthshire Preserves ‘Since achieving a 3rd place for our Pink Grapefruit and Ginger Marmalade at the Marmalade Awards our Pink Grapefruit and Ginger has sold by itself. Our Customers look at the sticker on the Jar and recognise that it’s quality in a Jar. Our other Preserves are selling well on the back [...]
What our artisan winners say – Ludlow Food Centre

Tom Hunt from Ludlow Food Centre : ‘The Marmalade Festival has been fantastic for the Ludlow Food Centre. We have entered three festivals and have had great success including a supreme product champion which has helped us to establish our brand of marmalade as one of the best in the world. We have also benefited [...]
Search launched for the best marmalade makers
Can you help us find the country’s best marmalade makers? Have you recently stayed in a B&B, guest house or hotel and been served the most delicious home-made marmalade? If you have, then why not let us know the name of the establishment and we’ll send them an entry form for our awards. We have [...]
Perfect your preserves for new National Marmalade Week
- 7th annual World’s Original Marmalade Awards & Festival signals start of National Marmalade Week – The first ever National Marmalade Week will take place from 25 February – 3 March 2012 thanks to the boom in the number of people making their own marmalade. The inaugural awareness week has been created by the organisers [...]
Literary competition – winning children’s entry
Paddington and the Dolphin by Amelia Macklin (aged 7) One day Paddington went on holiday with the Browns and Aunt Lucy to Skye. Skye is a long way from London. It is an island in Scotland. They went by train from Paddington station. They stayed in a flat. “This is a nice place,” said Aunt [...]












