On Saturday 24th October, the Real Bread Campaign is offering visitors to the new economics foundation’s Festival of Interdependence at the Bargehouse on London’s South Bank the chance of free, hands-on Real Bread making lessons with award-wining master baker, Paul Barker.

Paul of Cinnamon Square in Rickmansworth will share expert but easy tips, which participants will get to try for themselves. Everyone will leave with not only their own delicious loaf of Real Bread but the skills to bake many more at home.  Chris Young of the campaign will also be along chat about its aims, its work and how people can join the fight.

Chris Young says: “Learning to bake Real Bread is a tasty skill for life. It gives you control over exactly how, where, when and with what your daily loaf is made.”

Supported by the Big Lottery Fund’s Local Food programme, the Real Bread Campaign is an initiative from Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming, bringing together everyone who cares about the state of bread in Britain. Its key aims are to encourage the increased consumption and local production of Real Bread, made with all natural ingredients and finding ways of making all bread better for our health, our communities and our planet.

Cinnamon Square is a bakery and coffee house, offering visitors a unique peek at Real Bread, cakes, pastries and confectionery being created in its scientific baking laboratory, The Makery.   The Makery also hosts enjoyable and informative adult masterclasses, as well as fun workshops and baking parties for kids.

The Festival of Interdependence is part of The Bigger Picture, a creative series of events in response to current crises. 

The aim of the festival is to inspire and unite people across borders and boundaries. It brings together thinkers, artists, activists, poets and musicians for a day of learning, making, doing, celebrating and debating.  As well as grappling with the daunting array of social, economic, political and environmental challenges we face, the festival will provide visitors with a glimpse of how a new economic system, which puts people and the planet first, could look and how to start the great transition to get there.

Join the Real Bread Campaign at http://www.realbreadcampaign.org/ see our Facebook group and follow @RealBread on Twitter.

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For more media information on the Real Bread Campaign, please contact Chris Young on: chris@sustainweb.org or 020 7837 1228
For more information on Cinnamon Square, visit http://www.cinnamonsquare.com/, email enquiries@cinnamonsquare.com or call 01923 778 353
For more information on The Bigger Picture, contact Hege Sæbjørnsen on: thebiggerpicturepress@googlemail.com or 0773 494 4685

Notes to editors

Local Food: has been developed by a consortium of 16 national environmental organisations, and is managed on their behalf by the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts (RSWT). Supported by the Big Lottery Fund's Changing Spaces programme, Local Food will distribute grants to a variety of food related projects to make locally grown food more accessible. http://www.localfoodgrants.org/

The Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts (RSWT): is a registered charity, incorporated by Royal Charter, to promote conservation and manage environmental programmes throughout the whole of the UK. It has established management systems for holding and distributing funds totalling more than £20 million annually to environmental projects across the UK.

The Big Lottery Fund’s Changing Spaces programme was launched in November 2005 to help communities enjoy and improve their local environments. The programme funds a range of activities from local food schemes and farmers markets, to education projects teaching people about the local environment.

The Big Lottery Fund, the largest of the National Lottery good cause distributors, has been rolling out £2 million in Lottery good cause money every 24 hours to health, education, environment and charitable causes across the UK. http://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/.

Sheepdrove Trust also provides generous regular funding to the Real Bread Campaign