Membership

You don't need to be a baker to join us!

Membership of the Real Bread Campaign is open to eveyone who supports the rise of Real Bread in Britain.

This is your chance to join the national community of Real Bread lovers finding ways to make all loaves better for us, better for our communities and better for the planet.

 Count me in! Join or renew your membership now

Please note that we process membership applications once a week.

• Why join us? The work you'll be helping to support
• Benefits
• Membership levels
• Competition prizes
• Non-UK residents

See also

• Gift membership

Why join us?

There are thousands of people around the UK who are passionate about Real Bread and our main job it to help to bring them together.

By joining the Campaign you will be helping to fund us being able to coordinate the mutually-supportive national community of which you are a member.

On our mission to seek, find and share ways to make bread better for us, better for our communities and better for the planet, our activities include:

• Researching and publishing guidance for people planning Community Supported Bakeries and other local Real Bread enterprises
• Facilitating the national community, for example using The Real Baker-e online forum
• Promoting Real Bread baking in schools
• Working to help put Real Bread on the menu in schools and other public sector institutions
• Helping to make Real Bread accessible to more people
• Media work to raise awareness of the rise of Real Bread and the people championing local loaves
• Pointing out what we see as problems all along the chain from seed to sandwich to highlight the ongoing need for our work

We are also planning a new project to help some of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged people facing social exclusion to benefit from the employment, social and therapeutic opportunities offered by Real Bread making.

You can read more about our current work here and future plans here.

Benefits

The main benefit of joining the Real Bread Campaign is that you become a member of the only national community dedicated to championing the rise of Real Bread in our local communities and the people who bake it.

The most important things about supporting the cause in this way are that:

• Your money helps the Campaign to continue fighting for its aims
• Your membership helps to swell this fantastic, ever-growing and mutually supportive network.
• Your involvment helps us to keep the great things about Real Bread and the people bringing it to the hearts of our local communities (and the not so great things getting in the way) in the headlines.

In return you will receive:

• Four issues of True Loaf, our exclusive quarterly magazine
• A whole range of discounts on courses and more
• Eligibility for frequent prize competitions
• Access to The Real Baker-e online forum a place in which more than 500 of your fellow members (some professional bakers, others just starting out, and many not bakers at all) have registered to ask for and share ideas and information, and engage in gener bread-related chat

You will also have access to exclusive content in the members’ area of the website.

Professional bakers can also take advantage of The Real Bread Loaf Mark scheme.

Membership levels

We have four levels membership levels - one for individuals and people joining on behalf of enterprises (company, co-operative, charity, or other organisation) with an annual turnover below the VAT threshold (currently £73,000), and three more for enterprises with high turnovers.

For an annual discount of 10% you simply need to choose to pay by annual subscription, as the majority of our members do. As the payment goes automatically each year, it also save you having to remember to renew each year.

The discounted rates are:    

Full rates (if paying yearly online or by cheque) are £25, £50, £75 and £110, respectively.

You also have the option of joining London Food Link at the same time, saving 25% off the usual rate for our sister network.

 Count me in! Join or renew your membership now

Competition prizes

We organise frequent competitions for Real Bread Campaign members and to date, we have given away thousands of pounds worth of prizes.

Some appear in True Loaf, others only in The Real Baker-e. For details of current competitions click here.

Here are just some of the prizes (and their generous donors) we've given away to Real Bread Campaign members so far:

• All You Knead is Bread by Jane mason: Ryland Peters & Small
• American bread slicer:   thecookshoponline.com
• Bakery apprenticeship night with Aidan Chapman: The Phoenix Bakery
• Bethesdabasics (book): Bethesdabakers
• Bread bag: Bud & Blossom
• Bread making course with Andrew Whitley: Bread Matters
• Bread making class with Gordon Woodcock: Tracebridge Sourdough
• Bread making class with Dan Lepard: The Cookery School
• Bread making class with Aidan Chapman: The Phoenix Bakery
• Bread making class with Aidan Chapman: River Cottage
• Bread making class with Paul Barker: Cinnmon Square
• Bread making class with Michael Hanson: The Brook Bakery School
• Bread making class with Guy Moore: The Cookery School at Braxted Park
• Bread making kit: The School of Artisan Food
• Bread Revolution by Duncan Glendinning and Patrick Ryan: Murdoch Books
• The Cake & Bake Show (2 tickets)
• Dough by Richard Bertinet: The Bertinet Kitchen
• Dough and Crust by Richard Bertinet: The Bertinet Kitchen
• Dried yeast (36 tins): Doves Farm
• English Bread and Yeast Cookery by Elizabeth David: Grub Street
• European baking class with Emanuel Hadjiandreou: The School of Artisan Food
• The Fabulous Baker Brothers by Tom and Henry Herbert: Headline
• Flour (6 x 1.5kg): Marriages
• Handmade bread board: Woods World Wide by Williams
• How to Make Bread by Emanuel Hadjiandreou: Ryland, Peters & Small
• No Need to Knead by Suzanne Dunaway: Grub Street
• Real Bread bakery kit: bakerybits.co.uk
• Real Bread starter kit: Hobbs House Bakery
• The Real Food Festival (2 VIP tickets)
• Scandilicious Baking by Signe Johansen: Saltyard Books
• Short & Sweet by Dan Lepard: The 4th Estate

If you'd like to donate a prize for Real Bread Campaign members to win, please contact us.

We promote competitions in True Loaf (our quarterly magazine that goes to over 750 of the most passionate real breadheads in the land), Breadcrumbs (our monthly enewsletter to our wider supporter network of more than 7000 people), The Real Baker-e online forum, as well as to our thousands of Twitter and Facebook followers.

Non-UK residents

We love connecting with Real Bread lovers outside Britain and welcome your support for our work here!

If you'd like to join the Real Bread Campaign from outside the UK, please note that we're only funded to work in Britain and that most of the benefits we offer to members are UK based.

You will still be able to:

• Join the Real Bread chat in The Real Baker-e forum
• Download the PDF version of our True Loaf magazine*
• Enter competitions**
• Take advantage of discounts on classes if you visit the UK

When we're contacted by an organisation outside the UK with similar aims and values to ours, we add their details here.

You can also join the #RealBread conversation on Twitter and use our Facebook page to try to connect Real Bread lovers closer to where you are.

* If you're able to supply a UK address we can post a copy there instead

** Though we don't post prizes outside the UK