It's Real Bread Week 2025!

Created by the Real Bread Campaign in 2010, Real Bread Week is the annual, international celebration of additive-free bread and people who make it. 

Run by the food and farming charity Sustain, from 15 to 23 February 2025 the Campaign, is encouraging people around the globe to:

• BAKE Real Bread
• BUY Real Bread
• BOOST the Real Bread Campaign

Please follow @RealBreadCampaign on Insta, Facebook, Threads and BlueSky.

What’s happening where?

Each #RealBreadWeek sees social media posts from around 40-50 countries, with Real Bread bakers, bakery teachers, farmers, millers, influencers, schools, care homes, eateries and other businesses / organisations helping everyone to join the fun.

Indie business folk are busy bees and many don’t find time to add their activities to the Real Bread calendar. Those have include:

15: The Scottish Festival of Real Bread, Scotland the Bread / Bowhouse, Fife
15: Sourdough bread for beginners, Elim, Hailsham
15: Celebrate Real Bread Week, The Town Mill, Lyme Regis
16: Lee Green WI rye sourdough workshop with Ed Baker, Lewisham
19: Children’s pizza making, Lower Shaw Farm, Swindon
19: Pizza making for children, Lower Shaw Farm, Swindon
20: Making cheese and sourdough, Hen Corner, Brentford
21: Introduction to bread making, Daly Bread, Isleworth
22: Bread making, Cookery School, London
22: Basic Real Bread making, Giovanni Di Sarno, Chelmsford
22: More adventures with sourdough, Bramble Bakes, Speen
22: Coffee and 'caccia, Off The Rails, Whitby
23: Sourdough bread workshop, Almanac Urban Bakery & Mill, Ottowa

Find Real Bread

To help connect bakers and buyers, the Campaign hosts the Real Bread Map and runs The Real Bread Loaf Mark scheme. 

Raising dough

Since 2008, many Real Bread lovers have benefitted directly or indirectly from the Campaign’s efforts. The charity asks people to consider supporting its work by:

• Joining as a Campaign supporter.
• Buying Real Bread gifts.
• Making a doughnation or leaving a legacy.

Limited-edition t-shirts, apron and mug are available until the end of February from Balcony Shirts at www.realbreadshop.co.uk

Real Bread for All

The Campaign asks bakery owners and public sector caterers: How will you make Real Bread available to people on the tightest budgets in your local community during Real Bread Week and beyond? The free Real Bread for All guide includes suggestions and examples of how bakeries can make Real Bread available at prices realistically affordable to people on tighter budgets.

Whole lotta loaf

While there are larger, better-funded organisations that focus on promoting wholegrain foods, the Campaign also encourages people to make, sell, buy and celebrate wholemeal Real Bread during the week and beyond.

Bake Your Lawn

Starting with just a handful of wheat and square metre of soil, the Campaign’s grow-a-loaf guidebook is available to help adults lead children along hands-on journeys of discovery, from seed to sandwich.

Also available from the Campaign are the recipe book, Slow Dough: Real Bread, and Knead to Know…more, the business guide to microbakery and beyond, which was published by Grub Street on 7 February.

See also

• What’s so good about Real Bread?
• Real Bread vs. ultra-processed food
• The (not so great) British Fake Off
• We need an Honest Crust Act!