BFA Industry Awards 2024: Voting and judging is open!

All the verified nominees who wanted to enter the awards have now uploaded their entries and we move onto the next stage of the awards!

It’s time for the judging and voting! All the industry expert panel judges are now looking though the entries to find who they think should win. It’s not all down to them though…… The public vote is also a huge part of the awards so cast your votes now.

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The verified nominees are:

IPF FLORISTRY STUDENT OF THE YEAR

This category is panel judged only.

  • Karen Massey, Moreton Morrell College WCG
  • Oliver Low, The Floristry School
  • Angela Wake, East Durham College

FLORISTRY TUTOR OF THE YEAR

  • Abigail McGuire, The Floristry School – Sheffield
  • Allan Raby, East Durham College – Durham
  • Anne Marie Grant, CAFRE – Antrim
  • Charlotte Perrett, East Durham College – Durham
  • Denise Cross, Bicton College – Budleigh Salterton
  • Fiona Davies, Reaseheath College – Nantwich
  • Helen Longshaw, Reaseheath College – Nantwich
  • Jane Benefield, Morton Morrell WCG – Warwick
  • Jo Cullingworth, Doncaster College – Doncaster
  • Tina Parkes, British Academy of Floral Art – Exeter

TRAINING PROVIDER OF THE YEAR

This category is public vote only

  • Askham Bryan College – York
  • Bicton College – Budleigh Salterton
  • CAFRE – Antrim
  • Doncaster College – Doncaster
  • East Durham College – Durham
  • Moreton Morrell College WCG – Warwick
  • The Floristry School – Sheffield

GROWER OF THE YEAR

  • Bredefleur – Netherlands
  • Crosslands Flower Nursery – UK
  • Irish Green Guys – Ireland
  • Tesselaar Alstroemeria – Netherlands

FLORISTRY SERVICE PROVIDER OF THE YEAR

  • Details Flowers Software
  • Direct2florist
  • FloristPro
  • Strelitzia Software
  • The Paper Studio

SUNDRIES SUPPLIER OF THE YEAR

  • Country Baskets High Wycombe, High Wycombe
  • Floral Box, Galway
  • Flowervision Lancashire, Chorley
  • I.S.Sundries, Peterborough
  • Lavenders of London, Isleworth
  • Oasis® Floral Products, Washington
  • Whittingtons Leicester, Leicester
  • Whittingtons Bournemouth, Christchurch
  • Whittingtons Sheffield, Sheffield
  • Whittingtons Waltham Cross, Waltham Cross

FLOWER SUPPLIER OF THE YEAR

  • Florismartdirect
  • Van der Plas Flowers & Plants LTD

LOCAL FLOWER WHOLESALER OF THE YEAR

  • Flowervision Bristol – Bristol
  • Helliwell Flowers & Plants – Southampton
  • Lavenders of Sheffield – Sheffield
  • Westflor – Enfield

WEDDING/EVENT FLORIST OF THE YEAR

  • C Taylor’s Floristry, Hockley – Essex
  • H Watts Florist, Plymouth – Devon
  • Perfect Petals UK, Evesham – Worcestershire
  • Rambling Rose, Newry – County Down
  • Somerset Blooms, Liverpool – Merseyside
  • Something Special Flowers, Blairgowrie – Perthshire

RETAIL FLORIST OF THE YEAR

  • Arcade Florist, Great Yarmouth – Norfolk
  • Artisan Flowers, Hull – East Yorkshire
  • Bluebell and Ivy, Ulverston – Cumbria
  • Blossom Hill, Chelmsford – Essex
  • Burgeon Floral Design, Barnet – London
  • Chelsea Flowers of Wilmslow, Wilmslow – Cheshire
  • Fleur By Lizz, Peterborough – Cambridgeshire
  • Floren Flowers, Exeter – Devon
  • Flowers at No 10, Glasgow – Lanarkshire
  • Flowers by Isabel, Blantyre – Lanark
  • Flowers by Karen, Kilmarnoch – Ayrshire
  • Fresh Ideas Florists, Chesterfield – Derbyshire
  • Garden of Eden-Norden, Rochdale – Greater Manchester
  • Greenwoods Florist, Hull – East Yorkshire
  • Helensburgh Flowers, Helensburgh – Argyll and Bute
  • Marion’s Florists, South Shields – Tyne and Wear
  • Posies of Clevedon, Clevedon – North Somerset
  • Miss Pinks Florist, Plympton – Devon
  • Monica F Hewitt, Sheffield – South Yorkshire
  • Silver Birch @ BHGS, Evesham – Worcestershire
  • The Bloom Room, Millom – Cumbria
  • The Florist of Poundbury, Dorchester – Dorset
  • The Henley Florist, Henley on Thames – South Oxfordshire
  • The Little Flowermonger, Rhyl – Denbighshire
  • The Rose Garden, Dunmow – Essex
  • Victoria Bloom, Crieff – Perth and Kinross

Best of Luck and we’ll be announcing the finalists on 6th September before announcing the winners at the awards evening on 28th September at the FleurEx 2024 weekend.

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