Six Scottish butchers selected for GB squad at Butchery Olympics 2025
Six butchers from Scotland have been named in the squad that will begin training next month in a bid to represent Great Britain in next year’s World Butchers’ Challenge (WBC) in Paris.
Read moreFive Times World Scotch Pie Champion’s recipe changes hands in butchers’ business deal
• Wemyss Bay butcher secures world-beating recipe as Angus butcher retires
• Production of award-winning products to continue as brand is protected
• Scotland’s favourite recipes brought together in one business
2024 Black Pudding Scottish Championship
2024 BLACK PUDDING
SCOTTISH CHAMPIONSHIP
Sponsored by Scobie & Junor
Scotland’s black pudding butchers spearhead celebration of peasant staple fare to superfood
* First ever National Black Pudding Day served up in Scotland
* Scotland`s current Black Pudding Champion calls for same acclaim as haggis
* Search begins for Scotland`s best Black Pudding butchers
Scottish Meat Industry celebrates top apprentice success!
Marc Ingram from Blair Drummond Smiddy near Stirling has been announced as the Scottish Apprentice of the Year at the annual awards ceremony held in Aberdeen.
Marc completed his SCQF level 5 Modern Apprentice Qualification in April 2023. He worked through his qualification with Craft Skills Scotland who specialise in the delivery of apprenticeships in the Food & Drink sector in Scotland. Marc’s Modern Apprenticeship is funded by Skills Development Scotland.
2024 Home Cured Bacon Product Evaluation
HOME CURED BACON
PRODUCT EVALUATION 2024
Sponsored by Scotweigh
2024 Beef Link Sausage Scottish Championship
2024 BEEF LINK SAUSAGE
SCOTTISH CHAMPIONSHIP
Sponsored by Dalziel
The World Butchers` Challenge - Paris 2025
The World Butchers` Challenge is a butchery competition of epic proportions. With butchers from across the globe battling it out for the title of the world`s best, it`s often referred to as the `Olympics of Meat`.
Paris 2025 — World Butchers` Challenge (
worldbutcherschallenge.com)
UK Sausage Week makes a welcome return in 2024
UK Sausage Week (UKSW) returns next year taking place over the 28th October – 3rd November period. The annual event was suspended during the Covid pandemic.
As usual butchers, supermarkets, foodservice and manufacturers across the UK are expected to be involved.
Red letter day planned for black pudding
• Call for annual National Black Pudding Day
• Scottish butchers spearhead celebrations
• March 18, 2024, earmarked for day of national recognition
Lanarkshire butcher secures meaty industry award
Farmers son James Mitchell worked hard to change direction from engineering to butchery, qualifying recently in a career he loves.
Read morePerth meat industry mentor lifts top award
A Perth abattoir manager who has devoted years to training a new generation of meat industry professionals has been recognised with a national award.
Ronnie Rattray (58), manager with Anglo Beef Processing (ABP) at Perth’s Inveralmond plant, has lifted the coveted Scottish Craft Butchers Training Mentor of the Year Award 2023, sponsored by the Scotch Butchers Club and the Scottish Qualifications Authority.
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