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Scotland The Bread loaves at BATCH: London by Chris Young / realbreadcampaign.org CC-BY-SA 4.0

Published: Tuesday 16 April 2019

Following the success of BATCH events in Somerset and London in 2018, the Campaign is bringing together another batch of breadheads at Neil Forbes’ award-winning eatery.

Places are strictly limited to just 40 companions, who’ll enjoy a three-course meal crafted by Neil’s team to showcase seasonal ingredients and Real Bread as the monarch of the table.

Sandwiched between courses there will be short talks by guests including:

Pam Brunton: Chef and co-owner of the multi-award winning and critically acclaimed Inver on Loch Fyne, via stints with Tom Aikens, Noma, Fäviken, The Greenhouse and De Superette, amongst others
Neil Forbes: Chef director of our hosts, Cafe St Honoré, presenter of BBC Radio Scotland’s The Kitchen Café and columnist for The Scotsman.
Ameena Nur: Prince's Trust award-winning owner of Jeju's Bakehouse microbakery, based in Maybole, South Ayrshire. Ameena "folds love into every loaf and strives to bake the world a better place."
Andrew Whitley: Author of Bread Matters and co-founder of both Scotland the Bread and the Real Bread Campaign, Andrew needs no further introduction to lovers of delicious, additive-free, long-fermented, locally-produced loaves.

…with plenty of time for companions to network while they nibble.

Tickets

£30 per Real Bread Campaign supporter and £35 for everyone else
(plus Eventbrite booking fee)

Prices include the three-course set menu, with a share of the proceeds going to help fund the charity Sustain’s work running the Real Bread Campaign.

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Notes

Advance booking essential. No tickets will be available on the day
Provisional times are for the event to run from 7-10pm [TBC]
Please state any dietary requirements when booking
Discounted tickets are limited to one per current Campaign supporter
Anyone who is not a Campaign supporter but buys a discounted ticket will then need to either join the Campaign before the event or pay the difference on the door
The ticket doesn’t include drinks, which diners will be able to buy during the evening
Speaking guests are confirmed but volunteering their time and subject to change. No refund will be given due to non-availability or any other change in event details
Tickets are non-refundable but are transferrable

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Chris Young
Campaign Coordinator
Real Bread Campaign

Chris Young has coordinated the Real Bread Campaign since March 2009. In addition to lobbying for an Honest Crust Act of better loaf composition, labelling and marketing laws in the UK; he created and runs initiatives including: Sourdough September; Real Bread Week; Real Bread For All; Together We Rise, promoting therapeutic/social benefits of bread making; No Loaf Lost surplus reduction guidance; and Lessons in Loaf for schools. He’s the author of the Knead to Know…more microbakery handbook, Slow Dough: Real Bread recipe book and Bake Your Lawn grow-a-loaf guidebook; and edits True Loaf magazine.

From 2014-18, Chris also coordinated Sustain's London Food Link network, which included editing The Jellied Eel magazine and helping to launch and run the Urban Food Awards with the Mayor of London’s office. Chris has pulled on his judge’s wig for BOOM Awards, The Cateys, The Great Taste Awards, The Scottish Bread Championship and The World Bread Awards. In 2017, The School of Artisan Food honoured Chris with its first Fellowship, and in 2025 he was named joint Person of The Year by Slow Food in The UK.

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