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The Real Bread Campaign, part of Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming,
is funded by the Big Lottery's Local Food programme and the Sheepdrove Trust. |
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Get in touch
There are many ways to connect with Real Bread Campaign members and our wider supporter network.
- Join us
- Add your Real Bread to the Real Bread Finder
- Virtual bread
- Media queries
- Help us
- e-Newsletter
Join us
For details of how to become a member of the national organisation that is fighting for better bread in Britain and finding ways to make it better for us, better for our communities and better for the planet, click here
Add your Real Bread to the Real Bread Finder
The Real Bread Finder is the UK’s only dedicated online directory of local supplies of the real thing. If you bake what we define as Real Bread, click here so we can help you to help people find it.
Virtual bread
The Internet makes it easier than ever to make contact with people around Britain (and the world) who share your interests, passions and concerns. Connect with Real Bread Campaign members, other supporters and the project officer at:
- twitter.com/realbread (please tag with #realbread)
- facebook.com/realbreadcampaign (click 'like')
- flickr.com/photos/realbreadcampaign
- The Real Baker-e (exclusively for Campaign members)
Media queries
The Real Bread Campaign is the organisation leading the way in championing many bread-related interests in the UK including:
- Loaves baked without the use of artificial additives or processing aids
- Loaves baked as locally as possible by skilled bakers
- The teaching of bread making in schools
- Community Supported Baking
- Home-based Real Bread enterprises and other microbakeries
- Putting more Real Bread on the Menu of more public sector institutions
- An Honest Crust Act for transparency in marketing and labelling
- Calling for more research into the health benefits of different types of Real Bread
Contact
If your work in the UK media, the Campaign's project officer Chris Young is happy to chat about any of these issues and anything else to do with the state of bread in Britain, or suggest other relevant contacts. You can contact him by email in the Sustain office: chris [at] sustainweb.org he can also be reached via twitter
A request
We are a charity with limited resources. If we are able to help you with your work, then please help us with ours by mentioning the Real Bread Campaign in it, and where possible including a link to realbreadcampaign.org
Media releases
If you would like to receive selected media releases about our work, please include details of the publication/programme for which you work and your area(s) of interest (e.g. food, health, environment, community).
Images
You might also be interested in some of our Real Bread images on flickr. Many are subject only to a Creative Commons share-alike license but please contact us if you have any rights questions.
Help us
As well as becoming a Campaign member and baking and buying Real Bread, could you support the cause in other ways?
- If you are a professional Real Bread baker, would you be happy to pass on skills to others?
- We need help from baking colleges and tutors to get Real Bread skills training into professional courses.
- We would be happy to hear from anyone who can lend support in kind in the form of photography, animation, video clips, printing leaflets, t-shirts, cards etc. to help illustrate and share Real Bread skills and to promote the campaign
- If you are a journalist/writer, would you be interesting in donating an article for our magazine or website?
We'd also love to hear from people who are already working towards the same aims as the Real Bread Campaign. To help us learn from your experiences and share your knowledge with others, we especially would like to hear from you if you are doing any of the following:
- Growing grain with the aim of it being milled for local breadmaking
- Involved with any form of Community Supported Baking, co-operative or not-for-profit bakery or bread scheme
- Making bread available to those in your area who are less advantaged economically
- Making bread available locally in an area where there isn’t a bakery – eg through a box scheme, food co-op, community cafe or producers’ market
If this sounds like you, please email us: realbread [at] sustainweb.org
If you have a bready question, our members and supporters are sometimes the best people in the country to help you. To find ways of making contact, click here.
Please have a look around this site as answers to the majority of questions that we're asked are here somewhere. Our search facility is designed to help you find them.
Despite being a national organisation with hundreds of members and a wider supporter network of thousdands of people, at present we are only able to employ one member of staff. If you want to make contact with the project officer, please email realbread [at] sustainweb.org. He will answer, but please bear in mind that at times this might take a few days.
Real Bread Updates
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