Are you ready for Real Bread Week 2025?

Calling bakers, teachers, millers and everyone else!

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News Real Bread Campaign

Published: Monday 13 January 2025

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

From 15 to 23 February 2025, we’ll be encouraging people to (altogether now)…

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

Get a slice of the action

We invite all Real Bread bakeries, baking schools, mills, schools, care homes and other organisations to get involved in whatever ways work for them, in line with the aims above.

Ideas include:

  • Running Real Bread making classes.
  • Adding a new/special Real Bread to your product list for the week.
  • Organising a feast, fair or other event to bring together Real Bread (and other good food) lovers.
  • Hosting a networking opportunity for fellow floury fiends and other grainiacs in your area. 

Once you’ve made your plans, please, please, please add the details to the Real Bread events calendar, so we know (and can tell journalists, influencers and other people) what’s going on where. 

Please also login to check your (or create a) free Real Bread Map listing for your bakery or baking school. 

Raise dough

Since 2008, Campaign supporters, friends and the wider Real Bread movement have benefitted directly or indirectly from our charity's efforts. Now more than ever we need to get more of that love (by which we mean cash) back.

To help enable Sustain to keep running your Real Bread Campaign, please consider:

Balcony Shirts will be making a limited-edition design t-shirt, apron and mug available in February (and you can buy year-round designs) at www.realbreadshop.co.uk 

Real Bread for All

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? 

Rather than giving away leftover loaves to a foodbank, we’re talking about offering fresh bread at prices realistically affordable to people struggling to make ends meet. Our free Real Bread for All guide includes suggestions and examples.

Whole lotta loaf

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

See also

Real Bread Week 2024 review


Real Bread Campaign: The Real Bread Campaign finds and shares ways to make bread better for us, better for our communities and better for the planet. Whether your interest is local food, community-focussed small enterprises, honest labelling, therapeutic baking, or simply tasty toast, everyone is invited to become a Campaign supporter.

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