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The Dalemain World Marmalade Awards 2025

A celebration of all things marmalade with thousands of jars throughout the mansion, Q&As, demonstrations, tastings and much more.

Event Date

26 April 2025

Description

The 20^th Dalemain Marmalade Awards will be held on Saturday 26^th April 2025.

Entries to the awards are now open!

From a small Lake District community to octogenarian marmalade makers in Hiroshima and Australian marmalade for the King this is a shimmering citrus community of people that spans the globe. We are The Dalemain World Marmalade Awards with a hundred volunteers running a competition to find the best marmalade in the world. It began in 2005 with an idea to celebrate community and educate through cooking, champion marmalade makers and raise money for charity. Over the years we have been joined by marmalade makers, spanning generations, from Taiwan to Brazil, Norway to Northern Ireland, India to Argentina.

With generous support from Rathbones, Fortnum and Mason, Westmorland Family and Lycetts we have raised more than £320,000 for charity and had thousands upon thousands of entries posted to us here in Cumbria. Paddington is a patron, naturally, and our winner is cobranded with and sold at Fortnum and Mason.

Every April we stage the Festival at Dalemain Mansion in Cumbria, a family home and farming estate. This is the culmination of the annual Awards with the competition opening for entries in January each year, marmalade jars spill out of every part of the house while on display. The new years winner is announced, we have a range of talks and Marmalade panels and tasting of marmalades from around the world. We are joined in our citrus endeavours to further the cause of marmalade everywhere by two sister festivals in Australia and Japan.

The Marmalade celebrations are for anyone who loves marmalade, festivals or a good day out!