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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
- Sign up for Breadcrumbs (our free monthly enewsletter)
Join us!
You don't need to be a baker to join the Real Bread Campaign!
For details of why and how to become a member of the only national organisation 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 coordinator Chris Young is happy to answer questions on these issues, the Campaign and anything the state of bread in Britain in general.
NB Ours is a small charity with limited resources. If we are able to help you with your work, then please help us with ours by crediting the Real Bread Campaign and where possible including a link to realbreadcampaign.org
You can contact Chris by email in the Sustain office: chris [at] sustainweb.org he can also be reached via Twitter
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
Professional bakers
Beyond the all-important baking bit, have you done any of the following in the name of the Real Bread Campaign but haven’t yet let us know the details?
- Run a Real Bread making session in a local school
- Started to supply Real Bread to a farmers’ market, veg box scheme, Country Market, school, care home, hospital, meals on wheels service etc.
- Offered a placement to a volunteer apprentice
If so, please drop us an email to let us know the details so we can use your story to help inspire more bakers to follow suit.
If not done any of these things, would you like to?
Everyone else
As well as becoming a Campaign member and baking and buying Real Bread, could you support the cause in other ways?
- 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:
- Involved with any form of Community Supported Baking, co-operative or not-for-profit bakery or bread scheme
- Have Real Bread at the heart of your organisation's work, such as teaching bread making for its therapeutic values or as a life skill for people who find themselves marginalised - e.g. ex-offenders or people with physical or mental health issues.
If this sounds like you, please email us: realbread [at] sustainweb.org
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.
If you still have bready questions, our members and supporters are often the best people in the country to answer them. To find ways of making contact with them, click here.
If you still need to contact the Campaign coordinator, please email:
realbread [at] sustainweb.org
NB Despite being a national organisation with hundreds of members thousands more supporters, at present we are only able to employ one member of staff, so please bear in mind that replies might take a few days.
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