Public Sector Catering will reveal the 19 category winners on Thursday 9th April during an awards ceremony at the Hilton London Metropole. Bookings are now open for the PSC Awards winners ceremony.
The Tickets include pre-dinner drinks reception on arrival at 6.45pm, a three-course dinner at 7.30pm, the PSC Awards ceremony and after dinner entertainment until 1am. The PSC Awards are open to individuals, teams, companies and organisations including contract caterers operating in a public sector environment.
The awards celebrate excellence in catering across the public sector in schools, hospitals, care homes, universities, the Armed Forces, prisons and universities.
Two categories, the Armed Forces Caterer of the Year and Lifetime Achievement Award, are not open for nominations. There are 17 categories are open for nomination including:
- Care Catering Award
- Catering College Award
- Catering Manager of the Year Award
- Chef of the Year Award
- Contract Caterer of the Year Award
- Education Catering Award
- Health and Nutrition Award
- Hospital Catering Award
- Innovation Award
- Marketing Award
- Prison Catering Award
- Special Contribution Award
- Sustainability Award
- Team of the Year Award
- Training and Apprenticeship Award
- University Catering Award
- Unsung Hero Award
The 2026 Public Sector Catering Award sponsors include: Brakes, Ecolog, Essential Cuisine, Hobart Service, Lockhart Catering Equipment, Middleton Foods, Premier Foods, Rational, TUCO, Unox and Winterhalter.
Nominate yourself, your team or someone else, before the extended closing date of Wednesday 11th February 2026.