Eat some cheese. Have your say. 

Hot off the heels of the first ever People's Cheese last year (formerly known as the Great British Cheddar Challenge), the competition is back for 2024.

PEOPLE'S CHEESE 2024

This year, the People's Cheese competition will bring you the pillars of British cheese – a group of traditional cheeses known as the ‘territorials’. 

Cheddar, Stilton, Red Leicester, Caerphilly, Cheshire, Double Gloucester, Lancashire, Dunlop and Wensleydale are all in the mix, so we’re going to need to pace ourselves.

There’s going to be three rounds of judging and we need you every step of the way.

Heritage Edition

Photo credit: Matt Austin / Quicke's

FINAL

Friday 11 October, 7pm

Following two rounds of public judging at Chiswick Cheese Market, the People's Cheese 2024 final will be broadcast live online, so all you curd nerds can join in on the action and cast your votes.

We’ll be going live from Goosnargh in Lancashire, at the home of Mrs Kirkham's Cheese - one the UK’s most admired and respected territorial cheesemakers.

Massive thanks to everyone who has ordered their tasting boxes. We’re so excited for you to be joining our public judging panel on the night!

OUR FINALISTS

The people have spoken and the cheeses have been chosen!

Here’s our People’s Cheese 2024: Heritage Edition finalists:

  • Blue Stilton by Cropwell Bishop Creamery in Nottinghamshire

  • Extra Mature Cheddar by Keen’s Cheddar in Somerset

  • Mrs Bourne’s Cheshire Cheese by Bourne's Cheshire Cheese in Cheshire

  • Thelma’s Original Caerffili by Caws Cenarth in Carmarthenshire

ARE YOU A Cheese shop?

If you’re a cheese shop and would like to find out more, email: hello@therealcheeseproject.co.uk.

It’s totally free to get involved!