Marsha Barnett

Co Founder

Marsha Barnett has run her own separate catering business, she along with her business partner Dawn Burton found there wasn’t a lot of support for business owners like themselves.

she played an integral part of setting up The Caribbean Food Collective, which facilitates networking and discussions between business owners specialising in Caribbean products – be it fmcg, foodservice, takeaways, imports and exports or DTC. The Collective promotes its member brands on social media and joined the British Takeaway Campaign, in which representatives from different cuisines meet to discuss the macro trends affecting their businesses.

Burton and Barnett soon started thinking bigger. Seeing a rise in demand for Caribbean takeaways, they decided to set up the UK Caribbean Food Awards, which launched last October and featured categories for sustainability, shops, bakery and drinks.