UK Sausage Week 2025 competition winners exclusively unveiled

UK Sausage Week 2025 competition winners exclusively unveiled

A variety of winners were revealed on 27th October at a sell-out luncheon and awards ceremony at Butchers’ Hall in London, to mark the start of UK Sausage Week.

The 2025 celebration luncheon was attended by butchers, retailers, supermarkets, manufacturers and foodservice, all involved in the annual competition or simply wishing to be part of the event.

The presentations followed a convivial drinks reception and luncheon, with Owen Taylor & Sons Ltd providing its Taylor’s Country Special Sausage for the main course.

Meat Management magazine organises and creates UK Sausage Week each year, including its annual competition and themed luncheon. The Master of the Worshipful Company of Butchers (WCB) Gwyn Howells was the VIP guest and handed out awards to each of the category winners, alongside Meat Management publisher Graham Yandell MBE.

The 2025 UK Sausage Week winners are:

• Best Traditional Pork Sausage – Wicks Manor Olde English Pork Sausage
• Best Speciality Sausage – Morrisons The Best Ultimate Black Garlic & Red Onion Pork Sausages – Myton Food Group
• Best Lincolnshire Sausage – Waitrose & Partners No.1 Lincolnshire Pork Sausages – Pilgrim’s Europe
• Best Cumberland Sausage – Exceptional by Asda 6 Cumberland Pork Sausage – Finnebrogue
• Best Cocktail Sausage – Porky Whites Thai Style Cocktail Sausage
• Best Beef Sausage – Beef & Tomato Sausage – South Downs Butchery
• Best Chipolata Sausage – Taylor’s Country Chipolata – Owen Taylor & Sons Ltd
• Best Frozen Sausage – Cranberry and Stilton Sausage – Korker Sausages Ltd
• Best Gluten Free/Free From Sausage – Olde English Sausage – Aubrey Allen (Gluten Free)
• Best Chicken Sausage – Chicken Smoked Paprika, Red Pepper & Garlic Sausage – Country Harvest
• UK Supreme Sausage Champion – Wicks Manor Olde English Pork Sausage

The overall UK Supreme Sausage Champion is selected from the 10 competition categories, and this year Wicks Manor was the judges’ top choice for its Olde English Pork Sausage.

Graham Yandell MBE, publisher of Meat Management magazine, which organises UK Sausage Week, stated: “It’s a pleasure to be able to recognise these well-deserving businesses for the quality sausage products that they are producing.

To take a mealtime staple like the sausage and create a quality product time and time again is an impressive feat, and these awards are truly a testament to the creativity, hard work, time and care that has been put into each flavour, old and new. Congratulations to all the 2025 winners!”

Master of the Worshipful Company of Butchers Gwyn Howells added: “It has been a real pleasure to join in the celebrations today and to make the presentations to all the competition winners. And what better place to do this than Butchers’ Hall – it has been a real success.”

Fergus Howie, managing director of Wicks Manor, was delighted with the award of UK Supreme Sausage Champion, commenting: “To win this award is a game changer for us, we are so proud of our products that we make, but to say that we produce the UK Supreme Sausage Champion is incredible, a very powerful statement. I am blown away and on cloud nine, it’s so important because it’s recognition of the care, dedication and hard work that all our team put into every product we make.”

The UK Sausage Week initiative

UK Sausage Week, the premier initiative celebrating a British meal-time staple, will run through the last week of October.

The week-long programme, running from Monday 27^th October – Sunday 2^nd November, will see Britain’s butchers’ shops, supermarkets, caterers and manufacturers highlight the fantastic range of sausages available.

UK Sausage Week offers retailers across the UK the chance to spotlight their sausages, and in previous years has seen a fantastic range of initiatives launched as a result – from limited-edition products to sausage-eating contests and customer competitions.

In 2024, the Sleaford Sausage Shop created a Lincolnshire Foot Long sausage, while Scotland-based We Hae Meat celebrated by giving away five special boxes full of its sausage products. Nigel Alderson, who runs Alderson’s Butchers in Darlington, spent the week handing out more than 100 free sausage sandwiches to local businesses, with recipients including charities, funeral homes, hospitals and care homes.

Previous years have seen winners appear on ITV’s This Morning, The Chris Evans Breakfast Show and national and local radio stations.