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Best Bar None Awards Scheme

About Best Bar None

Best Bar None is a national scheme that aims to award and encourage high standards in the licensed trade.

We set-up the Best Bar None scheme in partnership with the Metropolitan Police and London Fire Brigade to work with local licensed businesses to help reduce alcohol-related crime and disorder.

It is a voluntary scheme that runs every year, whereby licensed premises that meet a minimum benchmark, set to reassure customers about the safety of venue, will be rewarded.

The scheme identifies the following key areas that collectively support this objective:

  • the responsible sale of alcohol
  • customer safety
  • exclusion of troublemakers
  • no under-age drinking
  • good neighbourhood relationships
  • drug awareness
  • staff training

Together with the statutory requirements placed on licensees under the Licensing Act 2003, these will form the basis for a benchmark of excellence.