Boning a full shoulder of pork, preparing and displaying it in front of a live audience was just one of the challenges head butcher Tom Wood faced in a competition in 2015 to find the UK’s best butchers. Tom who is the managing director of Tom Wood Artisan Butchers Ltd, applied to take part in the contest at London’s International Food Exhibition back in 2015. There was around 50 Butchers competing from all over the UK for five places on The British Butchery Team. It was tough but I thoroughly enjoyed it, “says tom, who was able to showcase the skills he has learned during his career. “I learnt my trade at Alpes in clitheroe but butchery has been in my family for longer than I can remember. I was fortunate enough to have been brought up within the industry from knee high and meat is my passion. I have learnt my trade from working with a vast array of butchers by watching and talking to them.”