Real Bread sold here!
The 100+ bakeries signed up to The Loaf Mark scheme.
While the Real Bread Campaign continues to lobby for an Honest Crust Act (which would include a legal definition of bread, and require full ingredient labelling of every loaf) shoppers should look for The Loaf Mark.
The Real Bread Loaf Mark
This scheme is run by the Campaign to help bakers give people their own at-a-glance assurance that a loaf is additive-free.
The Real Bread Loaf Mark’s companion is The Sourdough Loaf Mark. This helps a baker let shoppers know that their Real Bread is genuine sourdough - leavened only using a sourdough starter culture, with no added baker’s yeast or other raising agent. Say no to sourfaux!
Where to find Real Bread
Around 1000 bakeries have posted details on the Real Bread Map of where people can buy their additive-free loaves, buns, flatbreads, pastries and more.
Of these, around 100 are currently signed up to The Real Bread Loaf Mark scheme, enabling them to also use The Sourdough Loaf Mark as applicable.
As at 21 February 2022, the bakeries signed up to The Loaf Mark scheme are:
| Bakery | Location | County |
|---|---|---|
| Honesty Bakehouse | Insch | Aberdeenshire |
| Heritage Bakehouse | Benderloch | Argyll and Bute |
| Companions Bakery | Bedford | Bedfordshire |
| Jo's Loaves | Luton | Bedfordshire |
| The Uprise Bakery | Bristol | |
| Amazing-Grains | Milton Keynes | Buckinghamshire |
| Rex Bakery | Little Chalfont | Buckinghamshire |
| Woodstocks Artisan Bakery | Milton Keynes | Buckinghamshire |
| The Cambridge Oven | Cambridge | Cambridgeshire |
| Kbroffee | West Wickham | Cambridgeshire |
| West Street Bakehouse | Comberton | Cambridgeshire |
| MyLoaf | Cardiff | |
| Riverside Sourdough | Cardiff | |
| Anuna Craft Bakery | Llandysul | Ceredigion |
| CRWST | Cardigan | Ceredigion |
| Baker Lou | Stockport | Cheshire |
| Dough Drop | Sale | Cheshire |
| Bakerman | Darlington | Co. Durham |
| Baker Steve | St Levan | Cornwall |
| The Bread Shed | Tamarisk | Cornwall |
| Inbread Bakery | Carlisle | Cumbria |
| The Loaf | Matlock | Derbyshire |
| Emma's Bread | Exeter | Devon |
| One Mile Bakery Exeter | Exeter | Devon |
| Lucho Bakes | Parracombe | Devon |
| Joe's Bread Dorchester | Dorchester | Dorset |
| M's Bakery | Bournemouth | Dorset |
| Winfrith Bakery | Winfrith Newburgh | Dorset |
| The Earth's Crust Bakery | Castle Douglas | Dumfries and Galloway |
| Sugardough | Hove | East Sussex |
| Fermento Bakery | Forest Row | East Sussex |
| Wee Boulangerie | Edinburgh | Edinburgh |
| Tensheds Bakehouse | Hedingham | Essex |
| Sweet Jane Bakehouse | Glasgow | |
| City Market Bakery | Glasgow | |
| Billowing Loaf | Gloucester | Gloucestershire |
| Hobbs House Bakery | Gloucestershire | |
| Lo.So.Do | Radcliffe | Greater Manchester |
| Borderlands Bakehouse | Southampton | Hampshire |
| South Downs Sourdough | Alresford | Hampshire |
| Leavened | Stevenage | Hertfordshire |
| The Kitchen Front CIC | Harpenden | Hertfordshire |
| The Bread Lab | Carbost | Isle of Skye |
| Amazing Grace Bakery | Gravesend | Kent |
| Artisan Bread Organic ABO | Whitstable | Kent |
| All You Knead | Darwen | Lancashire |
| Breadcrumb Baking | Oldham | Lancashire |
| Fox Bakehouse | Burnley | Lancashire |
| Barkby Bakehouse | Leicester | Leicestershire |
| Knead Good Bread | Woodhouse Eaves | Leicestershire |
| Beck Hill Bakery | Tealby | Lincolnshire |
| Greenfield Bakers | Friskney | Lincolnshire |
| Ingreedilous | Stickney | Lincolnshire |
| Breadsmith London | Wimbledon | London |
| The Celtic Bakers | London | |
| Charlton Bakehouse | Charlton | London |
| E5 Bakehouse | Hackney | London |
| Ed Baker | Hither Green | London |
| Hackney Bread Kitchen | Hackney | London |
| Ma Baker | Fulham | London |
| Sourdough Sophia | Crouch End | London |
| The Little Artisan Bakery | London | |
| Starlight Bakery Manchester | Manchester | |
| Sourdough Seekers | Harrow | Middlesex |
| Wildside Bread | Edinburgh | Midlothian |
| Holly's | Aberlour | Moray |
| Findhorn Bakery | Findhorn | Moray |
| Bobs Bread Bakery | North Walsham | Norfolk |
| Elsing Bakehouse | Dereham | Norfolk |
| Off The Rails | Glaisdale | North Yorkshire |
| Secret Bakery Harrogate | Harrogate | North Yorkshire |
| Stark Farm Bakery | Tollerton | North Yorkshire |
| Kipton Baker | Kettering | Northamptonshire |
| London Road Craft Bakery | Kettering | Northamptonshire |
| Sunset Bakehouse | Northampton | Northamptonshire |
| Black Island Bakery | Waterloo | Ontario, Canada |
| Eviedale Bakehouse | Evie | Orkney |
| Orkney Sourdough | Kirkwall | Orkney |
| Carpenter's Cottage | King's Sutton | Oxfordshire |
| Forge Bakehouse | Lower Heyford | Oxfordshire |
| Knead Bakehouse | Witney | Oxfordshire |
| Green Park Bakehouse | Tufton | Pembrokeshire |
| Rye and Roses | Machynlleth | Powys |
| Cwrw A Bara | Pontypridd | Rhondda Cynon Taff |
| Claire's Kitchen | Taunton | Somerset |
| Withies Delicatessen | Stoke St. Gregory | Somerset |
| Hunnypot | Elford | Staffordshire |
| Two Magpies Bakery | Suffolk | |
| Amelia's Bakehouse | Fetcham | Surrey |
| Badger Bakery | Woking | Surrey |
| Bake88 | Epsom | Surrey |
| Crumbs Brewing | Reigate | Surrey |
| La Ficelle | West Byfleet | Surrey |
| Food In Balance | Weybridge | Surrey |
| Baked In Boldmere | Sutton Coldfield | West Midlands |
| Blackbirds Microbakery | Birmingham | West Midlands |
| Ethical Baker | Solihull | West Midlands |
| Katherine's Sourdough | Stourbridge | West Midlands |
| South By West | Worthing | West Sussex |
| Crow's Rest Bakehouse | Wakefield | West Yorkshire |
| Crust and Crumb 77 | Brighouse | West Yorkshire |
| Mill Kitchen | Farsley | West Yorkshire |
| Rogers Artisan Bakery | Marsden | West Yorkshire |
| Beacon View Bakehouse | Malvern | Worcestershire |
| Doorstep Baker | Bewdley | Worcestershire |
| Evendine Sourdough Bakery | Malvern | Worcestershire |
| Ma Baker | Overton on Dee | Wrexham |
| Britain Loves Baking | UK wide | |
| Peters Yard | UK wide | |
| Stone Shed Bread | Willaston | South Australia |
| Black Island Bakery | Waterloo, Ontario | Canada |
| Real Bread Korea | Korea | |
| Mad Hatter Bakery | Auckland | New Zealand |
| Pagnol Boulanger | LA, California | USA |
| Dawg House Bakery | Cupertino, California | USA |
NB As the scheme runs on an annual basis, running for 12 months from the date of signing up, participating bakeries can change weekly.
There are around 900 bakeries that have added their details to the Real Bread Map but haven't signed up to use The Loaf Mark, and who knows how many Real Bread bakeries that have done neither.
How it works
A baker signs an annual usage agreement that they will only use The Real Bread Loaf Mark to promote/market products that are what the Campaign defines as Real Bread. The agreement limits the use of The Sourdough Loaf Mark to Real Bread leavened only using a live sourdough starter culture.
The Loaf Mark is not an accreditation, certification or award, and participation is opt-in, rather than automatic when someone joins the Campaign - many of our supporters aren't bakers.
Bakers and shoppers: read all about The Loaf Mark scheme
See also
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Published Monday 21 February 2022
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