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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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Membership
You don't need to be a baker to join us!
Membership of the Real Bread Campaign is open to eveyone in the UK who cares about the state of bread in Britain.
In whatever way you support the rise of Real Bread, this is your chance to join other people around the country in the national movement that is fighting for Real Bread, and 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
Special offer! Join us and get 33% off Knead to Know. Click here for details.
Benefits
The most important things about supporting the cause this way are that:
- Your money helps the Campaign to continue running
- Your membership helps to swell this fantastic, ever-growing and mutually supportive network.
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 to connect with other members and ask for and share advice, ideas and information
- A 33% discount on Knead to Know, the introductory guide to success in baking Real Bread for your local community
- The Loaf Mark fee included for many members
You will also have access to exclusive content in the members’ area of the website
In The Real Baker-e, professional bakers also have access to the Real Bread Bakers Angels, a heavenly host of some of the finest and most respected bread brains in Britain, who are on hand to answer your Real Bread questions. Trouble with your loaves - use theirs.
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%, and to save you having to remember to renew each year, please choose to pay by annual subscription. The discounted rates are:
| Membership level | Annual fee |
| Individuals / enterprises with an annual turnover up to £73,000 | £22.50 |
| Enterprise turnover between £73,000 and £250,000 | £45 |
| Enterprise turnover between £250,000 and £1,000,000 | £67.50 |
| Enterprise turnover between over £1,000,000 | £99 |
Full rates (if paying yearly online or by cheque) are £25, £50, £75 and £110, respectively
Count me in! Join or renew your membership now
Competition prizes
We organise frequent competitions for Real Bread Campaign members.
For details of the current competition (ends 6 December 2011) click here.
Here are just some of the prizes (and their generous donors) we've given away to Real Bread Campaign members so far:
- American bread slicer: thecookshoponline.com
- Bakery apprenticeship night with Aidan Chapman: The Phoenix Bakery
- Bethesdabasics (book): Bethesdabakers
- Bread making course with Andrew Whitley: Bread Matters
- 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 kit: The School of Artisan Food
- 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
- Flour (6 x 1.5kg): Marriages
- Handmade bread board: Woods World Wide by Williams
- How to Make Bread by Emanuel Hadjiandreou: Ryland, Peters & Small
- Real Bread bakery kit: bakerybits.co.uk
- Real Bread starter kit: Hobbs House Bakery
- Short & Sweet by Dan Lepard: The 4th Estate
- VIP tickets (x2): The Real Food Festival
If you'd like to donate a prize for Real Bread Campaign members, please contact us.
All competitions are promoted in True Loaf (our quarterly magazine that goes to over 650 of the most passionate real breadheads in the land), Breadcrumbs (our monthly enewsletter to our wider supporter network of more than 4000 people), The Real Baker-e online forum, and via our Twitter and Facebook feeds.
Non-UK residents
Whilst we welcome people from outside the UK joining us, please note that the Real Bread Campaign is only funded to work in Britain and that all benefits on offer to members are UK based.
Though we do not send publications outside the UK, if you are unable to supply a UK address you will still be able to download our magazine True Loaf here after you join us.
