VOTE FOR YOUR FAVOURITE MARKET
Every year, we ask operators, traders, and members of the public to nominate their favourite market for the Great British Market of the Year Awards. To nominate your favourite market, simply, choose your market and click!
Britain’s Favourite Market is an online voting award with a final judging. Voting will be open on the NABMA website until midnight on 12th December 2025.
A short-list of the top markets will be created based on public votes, and the nominations will then be considered by a Great British Market Awards judging panel.
Any market can WIN! Final winner is chosen from a short-list and evaluation may include mystery shops and quality checks by the judging panel.
Britain’s Favourite Market is influenced by the people who come to your markets and your traders. Get them involved today
Let’s play fair! Individuals are allowed to vote once per day.
NABMA reserve the right to remove votes received in rapid succession from the same IP address or other non-genuine / block votes at our own discretion, so please respect the “one a day rule”. We may contact a market if we identify unusual voting patterns. Online voting will be the major contributor in deciding the winner but to ensure credibility then other checks may take place. Please note that we do record your IP address with your vote for this purpose.
Thank You!
Update to the Great British Market Awards
NABMA has introduced a small but important change to the Great British Market Awards to ensure the competition continues to celebrate the widest possible range of market achievements across the UK.
From 2026, previous overall winners will take a one-year break from entering the same category. This change brings the Awards in line with other national recognition schemes — for example, Britain in Bloom and the Great British High Street Awards — where overall winners step back for a year to encourage fresh participation and ensure a broader spread of recognition across the country.
This new approach is designed to encourage opportunity, diversity, and new success stories. By giving other markets the chance to take centre stage, we can showcase more of the incredible work being done across the sector and continue to raise the profile of markets nationwide.
We’re immensely proud of past winners such as Shrewsbury Market Hall, whose success has been highlighted to government and high street partners as an example of what thriving markets can deliver for their communities. Shrewsbury remains a fantastic ambassador for the markets industry, and we hope to see them — and many others — entering other award categories this year.
The Awards continue to celebrate the creativity, resilience, and community spirit that make UK markets so special.