Rising Up: Baking Real Bread improves people's lives

​The Real Bread Campaign report on the therapeutic and social benefits Real Bread making offers to people living with mental health issues, or otherwise facing a tougher time than most of us. 

With a foreword by Great British Bake Off winner John Whaite, the Rising Up includes the results of a new survey conducted by the Campaign, stories from people who have benefitted from bread making, and examples of organisations that have had success using the craft in their work.

This report will be of interest to people involved in, or planning, therapeutic or social bread making, and organisations seeking evidence of its benefits to help secure support for their work.

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Contents

• Summary    
• What is Real Bread?    
• About this report    
  •     Who’s who?
  •     Missed opportunities    
  •     Why food?    
  •     Why baking Real Bread?    
• Our research    
  •     The survey    
  •     Results    
  •     Other research    
• Companions    
  •     ABC / Daybreak    
  •     B arts    
  •     The Barker Baker    
  •     The Better Health Bakery    
  •     The Blackthorn Bakery    
  •     the bread maker    
  •     Camphill Village Trust    
  •     Column Bakehouse    
  •     Dough Devils    
  •     Eventful Bread    
  •     Freedom From Torture    
  •     Garvald Bakery    
  •     Glen Care Group    
  •     The Lantern Bakery    
  •     No Bread is an Island    
  •     Nutley Hall    
  •     Veterans’ Artisan Bakery    
  •     Virtuous Bread    
  •     Yeatman Hospital    
  •     Baking projects outside the UK    
• Proposal for Together We Rise    
• Appendix I: More comments    
• Appendix II: Comments from practitioners    
• References 

This report is FREE to download but as a small independent charity we urge you to make a donation in order that we can continue our work and run the Together We Rise project proposed in the report.