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Members Update 20 June 2025
Meet the Supplier Event – Prephouse
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Traditional Steak Pie & Speciality Steak Pie Awards
Women in Meat Industry Awards 2025 nominations are open now
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Update 20-6-2025
Meet the Supplier Event – Prephouse
Prephouse and Shop visit – Northern Ireland – 22nd & 23rd September 2025
MEET THE SUPPLIER EVENT
Prephouse have kindly invited Scottish Craft Butchers members to visit their premises in Northern Ireland, together with visits to a few retail shops over two days.
Draft itinerary as follows
Monday 22nd September2025 arrival – am Belfast International Airport
22nd September, depart from airport for Prep House in Crossgar
Arrive am , coffee, light lunch/afternoon coffee and factory tour.
Introduction to Prep House range of products and the opportunity for profit.
Sauce tasting,
Depart for hotel.
Free time.
Tuesday 23rd September 2025
Site visits – Addresses and details to be confirmed.
Assemble at Ballyrobin hotel for light lunch before departure to airport.
We have looked at flights from Edinburgh and Glasgow and they arrive around 9 am on the 22nd of September.
Return flight to Glasgow arrives at 1835 and Edinburgh 1735 on 23rd September.
An example of accommodation that can be booked is Holiday Inn Express Junction 1. This is a convenient location for all the planned visits.
(transport between airport and all venues we will arrange)
Initially, if you could confirm your interest in attending to Bruce McCall 01738 637472 or email [email protected] by 27th June 2025.
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Traditional Steak Pie & Speciality Steak Pie Awards
The next product evaluation will be held on Thursday 7th August at Forth Valley College, Stirling. Entries will be online only and will close 17th July.
Thank you to William Sword Ltd for sponsoring the Traditional Steak Pie category and Dalziel Retail Butchery sponsoring the Speciality Meat Pie category.
https://www.craftbutchers.co.uk/product-category/competitions/
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Women in Meat Industry Awards 2025 nominations are open now The annual Women in Meat Industry Awards recognise the substantial and valuable contribution that women make across the UK meat industry. The campaign to find this year’s winners is now well underway, with our dedicated website womeninmeatawards.com open to accept candidate nominations. I do hope you will participate and nominate a candidate or candidates for consideration. Deadline for nominations is 27th June 2025. This is your opportunity to nominate someone who excels at what they do, perhaps inspires a younger generation to join our dynamic industry, or makes a real difference to the business that they are in. You can nominate one candidate or several candidates using the link here: womeninmeatawards.com/nominate/ The categories are below:
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Whether it’s just one category or all of them, one person or more than one, your nominations count and are much valued. You will find full details about the categories on the website.
The overall Meat Businesswomen of the Year Award is presented to one of the winners of the categories above (excluding The Rising Star Award). A panel of industry judges will discuss all the category winners after voting takes place, and then select one overall winner who has made, or is making, an exceptional contribution to the UK meat industry.
To see a short film from last year’s ceremony, click here.
Naturally, should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us and I do hope you choose to get involved with this important initiative.
You can also book tickets or tables with an early-bird discount for the ceremony taking place on 21st November at the Royal Lancaster Hotel, London on the website.
Don’t forget, the nomination deadline is 27th June.
Diary Dates
Regional Meetings
Monday 20th October – Garfield House Hotel, Stepps
Tuesday 21st October – Carfraemill Hotel, Carfraemill, Scottish Borders
Wednesday 22nd October – Laichmoray Hotel, Elgin
Thursday 23rd October – Murrayshall Country Estate, Scone, Near Perth
Annual General Meeting & Training Awards
Wednesday 12th November – Lynedoch Suite, Murrayshall Country Estate, Scone, Near Perth
Scottish Craft Butchers Trade Fair 2027
Booking confirmed for Sunday 16th May 2027
If you have any questions or queries, please get in touch using the contact details below.
MEMBER SERVICES – Bruce McCall: [email protected] 01738 637472
CRAFT SKILLS SCOTLAND – Claire Simpson: [email protected] 01738 637785
Scottish Craft Butchers
8-10 Needless Road
Perth PH2 0JW
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