The opening day of the Ideal Home Show saw two fabulous Gurkha chefs, WO2 Baz Shahi and Sergeant Pawan Sherchan, cooking up a delicious Kukhura ko Tarkari (Chicken Curry) in the celebrity chef theatre to help raise awareness for Ideal Home for Heroes Appeal. Dick Strawbridge was on hand to talk us through their demonstration and [...]
ABF The Soldiers Charity’s Berkshire committee hosted a Big Curry lunch for around 300 supporters at Reading’s Madejski Stadium conference centre in January. The event raised over £7,000 for the Charity. Guests had the chance to tour Reading Football Club before enjoying a delicious curry lunch, which proved the perfect way to keep the cold [...]
Team Big Curry took on brave new international heights at the end of September, when we decamped to Leeds city centre as the Charity Partner to the second annual World Curry Festival. Backed up by a fantastic team of chefs from Grantham Catering Support Unit, we prepared for the curry masses with the following: 72 [...]
Curry fanatics can satisfy their cravings with a goodwill charity gesture at the World Curry Festival this month and enjoy culinary delights cooked up by Army chefs in aid of ABF The Soldiers’ Charity. Taking place in The Headrow, Leeds, between 23 and 25 September, the second annual World Curry Festival is a celebration of [...]
The Shrewsbury Big Curry has been hailed a great success by organisers with 500 curries sold in just three hours and chef Ed Warren from the TASTE kitchen at Shropshire Food Enterprise Centre being crowned as the curry cook-off winner. The first ever Shrewsbury Big Curry was held in The Square on Saturday in aid [...]
The winners of the first ever hungryhouse.co.uk English Curry Awards were announced on the evening of the 25th of July 2011 at a glittering bash at The Sheridan Suite in Manchester. Nominations came in from all over England and the race to be crowned at this year’s debut awards ceremony was an extremely tight contest. [...]
With so many new pubs taking part in The Soldiers’ Charity Big Curry this year, it is the involvement of people like the patrons of the Compton Swan which bring the fundraising to life for us at Big Curry HQ. David Dawe at the Compton Swan, Newbury, had a big day planned for his Big [...]
When Mark Asplin was bought tickets to the British Military Tournament in December 2010, he didn’t realise that he’d emerge as one of Team Big Curry’s favourite fundraisers by April 2011. Walking away from the Big Curry stand in Earl’s Court, clutching a recipe card and sachet of turmeric, he thought perhaps he’d have a [...]
June is somehow already here, which can only mean one thing: there are 3 days left before the Big Curry prize draw closes. That means only 3 days to get your Big Curry money in to us and still be in with a chance of winning a 7 day trip to Mauritius for two. So [...]
The Soldiers’ Charity Big Curry is the flagship fundraiser of ABF The Soldiers’ Charity. Curry lovers and supporters of the charity were asked to host their own curry themed fundraising event throughout the month of April. This could have been through ordering a take-away, eating out or by hosting a curry themed event in an [...]
Thanks to the British Army curry is officially the nation's favourite dish. Back in the 18th and 19th centuries 20,000 British Soldiers were stationed across the sub continent and the cooks of the East India Company developed anglicised versions of Indian dishes, and curry was born.
Now in its 6th year, ABF The Soldiers' Charity are asking families across the UK to join in their flagship fundraising event The Soldiers' Charity Big Curry in October. By signing up to host a one off Big Curry themed event you can help to support and raise for our soldiers, former soldiers and their families.
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