Real Bread workshop for Bristol teachers and cooks

On Tuesday 21 February, Square Food Foundation (formerly the Cookery School at Bordeaux Quay) hosts a one-off workshop in support of the Real Bread Campaign’s Lessons in Loaf and On the Menu schemes.

Places are open to teachers wanting to pass on Real Bread making skills to pupils, and school (and other public sector kitchen) cooks planning to put delicious, genuinely fresh, and additive-free bread on their menus. Officially endorsed by Bristol City Council, the session is being run for the Campaign by Square Food Foundation’s experienced team from 2-5pm in their brand-new purpose-built training kitchen at the Park in Knowle West.

Square Food Foundation’s manager Claire Allen said: ‘Helping people in and around Bristol to bring real food back to the hearts of their local communities is what Square Food Foundation is all about. We’re really excited to get behind the Campaign by sharing Real Bread making skills at our new home.’

Chris Young of the Campaign added: ‘School children, hospital patients and other people fed from the taxes we all pay are some of the members of our society most in need of honest, unadulterated, nutritious food. It’s great to have Square Food Foundation helping us to put Real Bread back in the classroom and on the menu.’

The workshop will cover basic Real Bread making skills, bread making in the classroom, and working bread making into a kitchen’s schedule. Pabulum Catering will be on-hand to give advice about baking in a public sector kitchen. In support of the Campaign’s mission, Square Food Foundation is offering just twelve places at the very generously discounted rate of only £25 (inc. VAT) per person, including cake and a cuppa.

Places are available to:

• School teachers wanting to pass on bread making skills to children in the classroom.
• Cooks working in public sector kitchens (e.g. schools, care homes, hospitals, prisons) that don't bake Real Bread already but are equipped and committed to start doing so.

Everyone wanting to register for a place needs to download the application form from the public sector page at www.realbreadcampaign.org and return it to the Campaign before Friday 10 February.

Part of Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming, and funded by the Big Lottery Fund’s Local Food programme, the Real Bread Campaign is helping the rise of additive-free local loaves, and finds ways to make bread better for us, better for our communities and better for the planet.  

Square Food Foundation is the new venture from Barny Haughton and The Cookery School team, previously based at Bordeaux Quay. A Community Interest Company operating on a not for profit basis, the Foundation delivers food education to children and adults as well as schools, community groups and corporate clients.

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For more information about Community Supported Baking and the Campaign please contact Chris Young: chris[at] sustainweb.org or 0203 5596 777
www.realbreadcampaign.org       twitter.com/realbread     facebook.com/realbreadcampaign

For more information on Square Food Foundation, please contact Claire Allen: info[at]cookeryschoolandkitchen.co.uk or 0117 904 6679
www.squarefoodfoundation.co.uk

Notes to editors

Other current initiatives from the Real Bread Campaign include:

• Real Bread on The Menu: the Campaign’s scheme to encourage more public sector institutions (such as schools, care homes and hospitals) and food access projects (e.g. co-operative buying groups, community cafes, box schemes) around Britain to make Real Bread available.
• Bake Your Lawn: A FREE grassroots guide to support teachers and parents helping children around Britain to sow a square metre of soil with a handful of wheat in the spring and grow it, mill it, bake it, eat it, to follow the Real Bread journey from seed to sandwich on their own doorsteps.
• Knead to Know: the Real Bread starter: the Campaign’s 140 page introductory guide to success in bringing Real Bread back to the heart of your local community, available as a limited edition book or PDF download. 
• The Real Bread Loaf Mark: Want to find Real Bread? Then Look for The Loaf Mark! This is the at-a-glance assurance from a baker that a loaf is what the Campaign calls Real Bread.
• The Real Bread Finder: the only online directory dedicated to helping people find where to buy Real Bread locally. Free for bakers to add, and people to search for, places to buy Real Bread locally.

Local Food has been developed by a consortium of 15 national environmental organisations, and is managed on their behalf by the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts (RSWT). Supported by the Big Lottery Fund's Changing Spaces programme, Local Food has distributed grants to a variety of food related projects to make locally grown food more accessible. www.localfoodgrants.org

The Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts (RSWT) is a registered charity, incorporated by Royal Charter, to promote conservation and manage environmental programmes throughout the whole of the UK. It has established management systems for holding and distributing funds totalling more than £20 million annually to environmental projects across the UK.

The Big Lottery Fund’s Changing Spaces programme was launched in November 2005 to help communities enjoy and improve their local environments. The programme funds a range of activities from local food schemes and farmers markets, to education projects teaching people about the local environment.

The Big Lottery Fund, the largest of the National Lottery good cause distributors, has been rolling out £2 million in Lottery good cause money every 24 hours to health, education, environment and charitable causes across the UK. www.biglotteryfund.org.uk.

The Sheepdrove Trust also provides generous annual funding to the Campaign.