Can it get any better for Nantwich Food Festival?

Nantwich Food Festival is overjoyed to announce that it has just been crowned as the winner of a major Cheshire Life Food & Drink Award.

The award was presented at a prestigious occasion, where other high profile shortlisted events were in evidence, showing that the Festival was up against some stiff opposition for the Award for Specialist Venue or Event of the Year.

To say that the Festival team is delighted at winning the award is a real understatement – winning a new and prestigious Cheshire Life Food & Drink Award is a great accolade and says all we need to know about how professionally the Festival is organised and run and its high reputation.

All of the organisers and helpers that locals and visitors see wearing their hi-viz tabards over the Festival weekend are volunteers.

Most of the Festival volunteers are able to offer anything from a couple of hours of their time over the Festival weekend, with some covering the full weekend. However, a small team of them works on specific major projects throughout the year for the Festival.

The organisers may be volunteers, but high professional standards are maintained in the way the Festival operates, with clear organisational structure and processes, happy well-trained and supported volunteers, happy Festival goers, involved local business owners, supportive sponsors and very happy exhibitors, who say there is nowhere like the Nantwich Food Festival because of all the help and support they receive from the volunteers.

All these volunteering hours, days and months add together to ensure that the Festival is run in the most cost-effective way possible, so that locals and visitors also benefit by not having to pay the entry fees that other food festivals levy.

New, keen volunteers are always welcome!

The Festival is one of many great events held within the town during each year and this is what makes Nantwich such a special place. Not only does the Festival play an important part in the local community, it is one of the key events in the wider Cheshire calendar.

Nantwich Food Festival was represented at the black tie event at Carden Park on 21^st July by Nanna Pedley, Festival Director and Sponsorship Manager, Nathan Arndt, Festival Secretary and Marquee Manager and Jackie Stringer, Festival Town Liaison Manager. We can see from their smiling faces just how thrilled they were to collect the trophy on behalf of Nantwich Food Festival.