USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand
We are thrilled that you are considering entering this year’s International Cheese and Dairy Awards, being held at Bingley Hall, Stafford in the United Kingdom. As the oldest Cheese and Dairy Show in the world, it has an excellent reputation both in the UK and internationally, providing a platform to benchmark your products against the very best on the market and helping to further enhance your reputation internationally for the manufacture of quality cheese and dairy products.
We hope that you will be at the show for the trophy presentations at 10 AM on Thursday, 26 June 2025.
We are trying to make the safe passage of your cheese as simple as possible, working with our colleagues globally.
Please arrange to move your exhibits via your local consolidation point on time, using the timeline below to plan. Your forwarder will confirm the documents required for movement of your entries to our location at London Gatwick in the United Kingdom. Full details will be provided once online entries have been processed.
Once successfully through customs, the show will meet the costs for the onward journey by chilled road freight from our consolidation location at Gatwick through to the staging of exhibits, prior to judging.
PLEASE NOTE:
- AN OFFICIAL VETERINARY STAMPED HEALTH CERTIFICATE WILL NOT BE REQUIRED. Further guidance will be provided after entries have been received online.
- WE WILL ISSUE YOU WITH A UK IMPORT AUTHORISATION ON BEHALF OF THE AWARDS. You will receive this approximately 2 weeks before you move your entries.
- INDIVIDUAL ENTRIES SHOULD NOT EXCEED 5 KGS (11 LBS). We recommend a minimum of 1 KG per entry for judging.
- THE TOTAL CONSIGNMENT MUST NOT EXCEED 250 KGS (550 LBS).
- AN ELECTRONIC COPY of a completed, signed Commercial Invoice / Health Declaration Form must be sent ahead of your dispatch to your consolidation location.
- THE DETAILS ON THIS INVOICE MUST MATCH EXACTLY the contents of each case.
- A copy of the signed Commercial Invoice / Health Declaration Form and Import Licence must accompany your entries for their entire journey.
- PLEASE ENSURE YOU GET YOUR CHEESE TO YOUR CONSOLIDATION ADDRESS BETWEEN 26 MAY AND 11 JUNE, but only after you have received the Import Licence from us.
IMPORTANT NOTICE - USA ENTRIES
PLEASE NOTE:
Due to current UK import restrictions, only entries from fully pasteurised milk will be allowed until further notice. Raw/thermised and mixed raw/pasteurised entries will not be allowed access.
TIMELINE
USA, AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND TIMELINE
| Event | Date |
|---|---|
| Invitation Schedules circulated | Jan 2025 – May 2025 |
| ABSOLUTE Closing date for entries received | Wed 07 May 2025 |
| ICDA to request Import Licence from DEFRA | Mon 12 May 2025 |
| Identifying labels despatched to exhibitors by email before | Mon 12 May 2025 |
| Requests for Combined Commercial Invoice and Export Health Declaration | Feb-May 2025 |
| ICDA to receive Combined Commercial Invoice and Export Health Declaration | By: Mon 12 May 2025 |
| ICDA to circulate Import Licences to all exhibitors | Mon 19 - Fri 23 May 2025 |
| Exhibitors can move entries to Local Consolidation points (after receiving Import Licence) | Mon 26 May – Wed 11 Jun 2025 |
| Airfreight Despatch to PML Seafrigo, London, Gatwick | Fri 13 Jun 2025 |
| Customs clearance | - |
| Chilled Delivery to Bingley Hall, Stafford, UK (By 8 AM) | Tue 24 Jun 2025 |
| Cheese staged | Tue 24 Jun 2025 |
| Judging | Wed 25 Jun 2025 |
| Results available online | P.M. 26 Jun 2025 |
Full details of the Consolidation point and contact information, along with further instructions, will be forwarded to you upon successful completion of your online entry.
We look forward to receiving your entries and wish you every success this year.