You still have a few days left to enter Tiptree World Bread Awards, the overall winner will receive £1000, plus fabulous KitchenAid goodies worth £1200.  Finalists' will be invited to attend the harvest supper-style awards ceremony at St John's Hyde Park, London in October.

So, what are you waiting for – please visit www.worldbreadawards.com, for further information. The closing date is Sunday, 31 August 2014

Launched in 2013, the awards are open to professional bakers and home-bakers, old and young, and seek to celebrate the rise and rise of the British passion for bread. We buy an astonishing 12 million loaves every day, and more than half the population baked their own bread last year.

Judges for 2014 include Frances Quinn, winner of the Great British Bake Off 2013 and Jack Prince, The Pocket Bakery. Chairman of the Judges is Stephen Hallam, Master Baker, and Managing Director of Dickinson & Morris.

Tiptree is headline sponsor of the World Bread Awards. The first Tiptree preserves were made in 1885 and Tiptree jams and preserves are now sold across the world, many of them made with fruit still grown on their farms in Essex www.tiptree.com

For further information and interview requests, please contact: Sue Richmond,

 Kenyon Communications, Mobile: 07708 690707

Email: sue@kenyon-communications.com

Twitter: @WorldBreadAward