Past winners

year	team	team members	worms

1984	Harberton Youth Club	Peter Patrick, Brian Stubbings, Dick Pleydell	34
1985	Harberton Youth Club	Peter Patrick, Brian Stubbings, Dick Pleydell	93
1986	Dartmouth Round Table	Bob Benns, Kate Benns, Adam Benns	149	World Record
1987	Harberton Youth Club	Peter Patrick, Brian Stubbings, Dick Pleydell	69
1988	Church Hill Charmers	Nigel Canham, Colin Jenkins, Dick Everett	128
1989	Super Suck II	Charlie Channer, Sam Davis, Tom Davis	113
1990	Church Hill Charmers	Nigel Canham, Colin Jenkins, Rick Canham	40
1991	Dartmouth Anglo Dutch Association	Raja Ossewaarde, Bait Ossewaarde, Julia Bastone	65
1992	Worm Picker Licker Dickers	Julian Barnes, Emily Smee, Nick Adams	53
1993	69ers (St Teresa's Worm Charming Diviners)		72
1994	Church Hill Charmers		98
1995	Church Hill Charmers		40	joint winners
	B.A.T. M.A.G.		40	joint winners
1996	Church Hill Charmers		43
1997	Church Hill Charmers		81
1998	Blackawton Bulls	Charlie Stoddart, William Benzies, Mark Conroy	72
1999	Reservoir Dogs	Sam Gates, Bradley Gerrard, Darren Hailey	124
2000	Reservoir Dogs	Sam Gates, Bradley Gerrard, Darren Hailey	63
2001	Cancelled due to foot & mouth disease
2002	Fluff Castle	Sam Gates, Chris Hines, Chris Bayler-Smith	suspect
2003	Dr. Worm & the Wrigglers	Alex Smith, Martin Nunan, Roger Chilcott
2004	Stephen Hawking's Football Boot
2005	3 From Down Under		33
2006	Bedfordshire Twangers		56
2007	Team Wormcasts		19
2008	Blackawton Space Cadets		66
2009	Carpet Burners		22
2010	Harberton Heroes		43
2011	Cheeky Monkeys	ReubenRodwell, Connor Passmore, Bradley ___	38	winners of the under 11 competition
2012	Olympixies	Esther Cooke, Libby Rodwell-Lynn, Katie Stevens	102	winners of the under 11 competition
2013	Wicker Worms		79
2014	The Wiggles	Julia, Shelley, Levi	105
2015	Worm Wranglers	Megan, Lia, Nadine	54
2016	Super Worm M.A.S.H. Unit	Polly, Elmo, Barrie	36
2017	Phillipe Flops	Philip Everett-Lyons, Tim Stathers, Vienna Dobmans	29
2018	Fat Worms	Sally, Toby, Freya	16	lowest adult count
2019	The Winners		83
2020	Cancelled due to Covid
2021	Cancelled due to Covid
2022	Pirates	Sophia, Ali & Paul	30

The 1994 winners, the Church Hill Charmers, won the competition a record number of times - with a total of 6 wins in the ten year period 1988-97.

under 11's

year	team	team members	worms

2005	The Wormitrons		11
2006	The Blackawton Higglers		4
2007	The Three Musketeers		8
2008	The Baby Charmers		13
2009	Boris & Co		2
2010	The Little Piggies		11
2011	Cheeky Monkeys		38
2012	Olympixies		102
2013	Beach Babies		47
2014	Steiner Dudes	Loius Yates, Imogen ___, Molly ___	62
2015	Everything is Awesome	Charlie, Elsie, Laura	38
2016	The Worm Wrangles	Tom Newman, Harry Graham, Jack Graham	26
2017	The Legendary Wormcatchers	Keira, Alfie, Charlie	22
2018	The Weirdos	Ollie Weir, Charlie Weir, Freddie Weir	12
2019	00 Trouble		68
2020	Cancelled due to Covid
2021	Cancelled due to Covid
2022	Worm Raiders	Indigo & friends	27

The competition for under 11's was first held in 2005. In 2011, the Cheeky Monkeys, a team of three and four year olds in the under 11's competition, actually caught more worms than the highest scoring team in the adult category - thus making them overall winners. The same thing happened the following year when the under 11's Olympixies team took the competition by storm with 102 worms - twenty more than the leading adult team.

Fancy dress winners

The Church Hill Charmers trophy has, in the past been presented to the winners of the fancy dress competition. Unfortunately, it bears the winners plaques for only 4 years:

1993	Windjammer, Dartmouth
1995	The Worm Doctors, Southleigh Caravan Park, Modbury
1996	The Japanese Fat Buggers, Southleigh Caravan Park, Modbury
2000	www.com, Blackawton

In recent years, fancy dress winners have been presented with medals. The most recent winners are:

year	team	team members

2014	Adult: Worm War 1 Under 11's: Urm Catchers	John Barnes, Linda Hill, Capellia Andrews Aiva, Henry, Isla
2015		Eva Scoville
2016	Sisters of No Mercy Best Individual	Lynda, Jackie, Allan? Beth Hughes
2017	Fantastic Worms & where to find them	Philip, Emma, Jonathan
2018	The Brain Surgeon & the Patients	Ali, Paul, Sophia
2019	Team McConnell Best Individual	Andy
2020	Cancelled due to Covid
2021	Cancelled due to Covid
2022	The Holy Worm Best Individual	Oceaenah, Mark A, Claire A Maisie Rodwell

In 2016, the Wormcharming Committee ruled that only one team would be selected as fancy dress winners - whether adult or under 11's. In addition, however it was agreed that the fancy dress judge could make a discretionary award to the best fancy dressed non-competitor if appropriate.

In 2014, a prize was awarded for the best contraption used to lure worms during "worming-up". This was won by the team, Hoose? - Smith - Turner (comprising Kaia, Barney & Raife).

We We hope to further develop this area of the website. If you have details of past winning teams or stories relating to past wormcharming events please contact the Web (not Worm) Master to add them to the site.