Our events coming in 2025
5th April 2025
24th & 25th May 2025
24th & 25th May 2025
KCBS Competition Cooking Class with Bunch of Swines
Learn from Ed and Emma, two of the best in the business how to cook for KCBS (Kanas City Barbecue Society) competitions
24th & 25th May 2025
24th & 25th May 2025
24th & 25th May 2025
Malton Grill & Smoke Festival Featuring The Whole Hog BBQ Comp
We are working with Visit Malton and Cranswick PLC to put on a fabulous live fire and barbecue fringe event to the Malton Food Lovers Festival in May 2025
7th & 8th june 2025
24th & 25th May 2025
7th & 8th june 2025
UK Barbecue Championships at Hayles Fruit Farm
In 2025 we will be organising the only KCBS contest in the UK, and our annual Freestyle Championships at Hayes Fruit Farm just outside Cheltenham
More to come in 2025
Host a CompBBQUK contest or apply for contest sanctioning
Host a CompBBQUK contest or apply for contest sanctioning
Host a CompBBQUK contest or apply for contest sanctioning
calendar for our contests, other contests and events
Host a CompBBQUK contest or apply for contest sanctioning
Host a CompBBQUK contest or apply for contest sanctioning
How to get involved in competition barbecue
Host a CompBBQUK contest or apply for contest sanctioning
How to get involved in competition barbecue
About us
COMPBBQUK is about one thing, and that thing is competition barbecue. Our aim is to encourage participation, grow awareness and make competition barbecue as accessible as possible. We do this in several ways, by collating and sharing information, supporting competitions and events including our own and those from other organisers. We also sanction contests that others organise, supplying our contest structure and rules.
If you are interested in competition barbecue or already involved follow us on our socials or get in touch if we can support.
Find Out More
What is competition BBQ?
What is competition BBQ?
What is competition BBQ?
Competition BBQ originated in the USA and is fast growing in the UK and across Europe. Multiple formats exist including fine dining style cooking over fire through to the traditional and most popular American style "low and slow" contests. You can find out about them all here.
Already Involved
What is competition BBQ?
What is competition BBQ?
If you are already a cook, judge, contest rep or organiser involved in competition BBQ, we aim to support you. CompBBQUK will be working to promote and advance competitive BBQ. As we move forward we will be undertaking various activities to spread the word about competition BBQ.
Want to get involved
What is competition BBQ?
Want to get involved
If you are new to the world of competition BBQ and want to get involved, then this is the place for you. At CompBBQUK you will find information on how to get started, weather that be setting up a new team, how to start competing, how to become a certified judge or organising a contests. Our aim is to get you to where you need to be and welcome you into the UK competition BBQ community.