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Nominations for the 2012 Awards

The awards make a difference: they celebrate pioneering business ideas and give heart to people working under the media radar who’ve often pulled off incredible feats when all the odds and conventional thinking were stacked against them.

Who will this year’s winners be? It’s up to YOU. It could be a cook in your local school, works canteen or residential home. A takeaway that’s doing what most takeaways don’t: sourcing with imagination and flare. A farmer producing great crops who’s also bringing benefits to the environment….. You know who they are!

This year’s judges are Angela Hartnett, Valentine Warner, Adam Henson, Arthur Potts Dawson, Victoria Moore, Pete Brown, Charles Campion, Christine Tacon, Helen Crawley, Kath Dalmeny, Simon Parkes and myself.

We’re all waiting to hear from you now… Without you, the time and commitment they’ve made don’t mean a thing. We all look forward to reading your nominations.

Click on the links below to send your nominations before midnight on 12th August 2012:

• Best Food Market
• Best Street Food or Takeaway
• Best Food Producer
• Best Drinks Producer
• Best Local Food Retailer
• Best Big Food Idea
• BBC Farmer of the Year
• Best ‘Dinner Lady’ / Public Caterer
• The Derek Cooper Award

Image: Sheila Dillon launches the Food & Farming Awards 2012.