Polly’s Jolly Trolly named most sustainable food truck in the British Street Food Awards 2025
Jolly Allotment’s Jolly Trolly beat off stiff competition from some of the UK’s most loved food outfits to be crowned the most sustainable food truck award at the British Street Food Awards 2025.
The ethos behind the Jolly Trolly is clear to see. At its core is plant-based fire food, but its aims extend way beyond giving you a wholesome, tasty meal to fuel your stomach and your soul. They serve bowls of fire-cooked goodness from breakfast through to supper – from shakshuka and broths to rainbow bowls with halloumi and pickles.
“Grow the rainbow, eat the rainbow, be the rainbow,” says founder Polly Baldwin.
Under another mantra ‘We Feed People – Gut, Mind, Body and Soul’, Polly transforms lives – and it started with her own after she was hit with a debilitating post-viral infection. She led her own recovery using gut friendly food to bring her back to life and she’s been sharing her knowledge and skills ever since.
Polly rescued the beautiful trailer that became Jolly Trolly out of a field with a dream of creating a Coeliac friendly Regenerative nourishing food truck for festivals and events to softly educate and inspire people to eat well with their health and the health of the planet in mind without sacrificing taste and that feeling of gifting yourself something delicious. And after some crowdfunding and the kindness of strangers, that’s exactly what she did.
The Jolly Trolly – which previously won an award at Shambala festival – uses seasonal, regenerative and organic produce cooked on open fire, real honest food, nothing processed, homemade nourishment. The food is 100% Gluten free, always Coeliac friendly and caters for a range of diets including omnivore, vegetarian and vegan.
The judging panel said: “We loved their broad approach – from regenerative sourcing to fire cooking with local wood/charcoal and the use of strict home compostable packaging. Plus they’re launching a CIC for education to make social impact as well as an environmental one. Well deserved winners.”
Polly, whose lives in Wales, said: “We could not be happier about this award. Our entire manifesto is built around a fully regenerative offering which means supporting the soil and the people that grow and produce our food as well as feeding the health and wellbeing of our clients. Our festival fire food is so nourishing it puts smiles on faces, refuels dancing feet and leaves everyone who visits us feeling loved and abundant.”
