Proud of your pub? It's time to shine!
The Great British Pub Awards are back for 2025! The most prestigious awards in the pub industry are here once more, ready to shine a spotlight on the nation’s very best pubs. It’s time to celebrate excellence, boost your pub’s profile, and give your team the recognition they deserve.
With an exciting mix of categories—from ‘Best Country Pub’ to the ever-popular ‘Best Pub for Dogs’—there’s a chance for every pub, no matter its size or style, to step into the spotlight.
Designed to deliver real benefits to those who enter, securing a finalist spot is a powerful way to raise your profile, attract new customers, and open the door to fresh opportunities. Last year’s awards generated millions of views and hundreds of press mentions—a win here could take your business to the next level.
Why enter? Here's what's in it for you:
- Boost your business, increase awareness and attract new customers
- Showcase your hard work and achievements
- Lift your team’s morale by recognising their contribution
- Generate excellent national and local PR for your pub
- Attract new suppliers
- See how winning an award has directly impacted pubs in the past by viewing their testimonials here
Entry Deadline: Friday 2 May 2025
The Great British Pub Awards are a two-phase judging process. We know that pub operators are busy, therefore the first stage has been crafted to be as simple and quick as possible. Entries that are shortlisted will proceed to stage two where they will be asked to provide additional information. For more information, please see our judging page or contact us at Becky.Cumbers@wrbm.com.
If you know of a pub that deserves special recognition, you can nominate them here.
Categories for Entry 2025
Click the arrows below to see the criteria for each category!
Open to all pubs with a focus on their exceptional beer offer. The winner will consistently deliver value and high standards through their range, showcasing the quality of their serve, cellar management and training, staff knowledge and excellent customer service.
Open to pubs who have succeeded in building a successful business that is at the centre of its community. The winner of this category will be renowned for supporting its local community and offer a range of facilities to their locals showcasing how a pub can be the hub of a community. This could include supporting local charities and groups, connecting people, looking after the lonely and vulnerable and providing service way beyond that of a typical pub.
The winning pub in this category will receive a £5k prize and the other finalists will each receive a £1k prize.
Open to all pubs located within a rural or village setting. This is for a pub that is doing an exceptional job across the board, offering high standards with its overall offer and great service in superb surroundings that caters for their target market. (Pubs located within a town setting, please enter Best Town Pub)
Open to pubs that put a real emphasis on looking after their four-legged customers. This is a pub that goes beyond simply welcoming owners with dogs, and has a strong offer around catering for animals as part of its core business offer
Recognising pubs who do a great job when it comes to their entertainment offer. This is open to pubs that range from late night operations, to live music providers, through to pubs that run outstanding quiz and charity events.
Open to pubs that focus their offer on the family market. Catering for all ages and for who the family market has been a key part of their business success in the past year. The winner will have a family friendly food and drink offer and facilities to keep all the family entertained.
Open to all pubs with a focus on their exceptional food. The winner will consistently deliver value and high standards through their menu, showcasing the quality of ingredients and innovation in how they are prepared.
Recognising the best pub garden in the country. The winner will have an exceptional outside space that has been well designed and developed to offer customers an outstanding experience.
Open to bars/pubs which offer the best place to watch sport on match days. The winner will screen multiple sports, have an exceptional audio-visual setup and welcome the diverse range of sports fans to their site.
Open to all pubs that are doing a great job when it comes to improving their environmental footprint. Judges will be looking for sustainable practices throughout the operation of the business, from food and drink sourcing, to waste and energy reductions practices.
Open to all pubs located within a town or city. This is for a pub that is doing an exceptional job across the board, offering high standards with its overall offer and great service in superb surroundings that caters for their target market.
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