Please vote for Alison!
Velvet Magazine Food & Drink Awards 2026
Alison and her amazing team at The Ferry Project Cookery School in
Cambridgeshire, need your help with a vote in the Food and Drink Hero
category for this year’s Velvet Magazine Food and Drink Awards 2026.
8 Years ago, Ferry Project CEO Keith Smith met Alison to discuss the possibility of setting up a cookery school for the charity’s clients. (The Ferry Project helps homeless people in the Fenland region of Cambridgeshire - not simply to provide accommodation - but to give them the skills needed to live independently https://www.ferryproject.org.uk/ )
5 years after that meeting the plan was hatched, an old hotel kitchen was redesigned, a new teaching kitchen built. Now in the present day, client and community classes, online and in person cookery demos and pop-up events, are successfully run. Alison has also written 3 cookery books and broadcasted on several Radio, Community Video Streaming and TV shows, promoting the Cookery School and all the incredible work that she, and the team, do in the local community.
Your nomination would increase the profile of The Ferry Project greatly, so please take a few seconds to vote.
How to nominate – follow these short steps;
1. Go to https://www.iliffemediapromotions.co.uk/velvet-food-drink-awards/nominate/
2. Type your name and address
3. Tick the Category box that says ‘Food and Drink Hero’
4. Name the nominated business ‘Ferry Project Cookery School’
5. Specify the Website or Social Media Link as @fascinatingfood
6. Give an amazing reason for the vote (e.g. Alison’s passion for food and passing that on to others, the wide work in the community, encouraging healthy eating and helping the homeless, championing eating well on a limited budget, being an amazing advocate for Food and Drink in Southern England – inspiring others from all walks of life – and anything else you wish to write!)
7. Finally, click NOMINATE NOW! at the bottom of the page!
Thank you!!!
(Nominations close at 23.59, Friday 24th April 2026)
