About National BBQ Week

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Dates of National BBQ Week

2027 United Kingdom Monday, May 31stNational BBQ Week

2026 United Kingdom Monday, May 25thNational BBQ Week

2025 United Kingdom Monday, May 26thNational BBQ Week

2024 United Kingdom Monday, June 3rdNational BBQ Week

2023 United Kingdom Monday, May 29thNational BBQ Week

Summary

Starting on the Spring Bank Holiday, this is a week to get your grill on.

One of the UK’s Top five Awareness Weeks, National BBQ Week in the UK first began in 1997.

National BBQ Week has not only helped change all of our attitudes towards BBQ and summer eating, it’s also helped grow the BBQ market from just 9 million BBQ occasions back then to around 135 million in 2019!

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