How to establish a successful bakery

Sophia, Jesse and their Crouch End team. Copyright: Sourdough Sophia

Published: Thursday 9 January 2025

Are you a budding, or established, (micro)bakery entrepreneur? On Monday 27 January (2-3:30pm) Sustain member Better Food Traders hosts an online workshop, led by Real Bread Campaign supporter Sophia Handschuh.

From microbakery to multi-site

The Sourdough Sophia founder will share her experience of building a business, from starting a microbakery in her dining room during lockdown, to running a multi-site operation today.

With a focus on growth and sustainability, Sophia will take you through key stages of building her bakery, offering you tips to running a successful business, covering:

Operations
Marketing
Product
Scaling up

A recording of the workshop will be sent to everyone who books a place.

50% discount

Better Food Traders are offering Real Bread Campaign supporters 50% off the standard ticket price of £20 (plus booking fee). Login for your discount code.

Find out more and book now

(Places are free to Better Food Trader members.)

Bakery business handbook

Planning, starting or expanding a bakery business? Knead to Know…more is the guidebook for YOU!

Whether starting a microbakery from your own kitchen, teaming up with neighbours to establish a Community Supported Bakery, or taking the next steps as your high street’s baker, this unique business guide is packed information and advice from Real Bread entrepreneurs.

Find out more

See also

Crouch End tiger
Bakery support
Microbakery 101 (webinar recording)
Not all Real Bread is white (webinar recording)
Baking a better career (webinar recording)

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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; he created and runs Sourdough September; Real Bread Week; Real Bread For All; Together We Rise promoting therapeutic/social benefits and bread making; the No Loaf Lost surplus reduction initiative; as well as Lessons in Loaf and Bake Your Lawn for schools. He’s the author of the Knead to Know…more microbakery handbook and Slow Dough: Real Bread recipe book; and edits True Loaf magazine.

From 2014-18, Chris also coordinated the London Food Link network, which included editing The Jellied Eel magazine and helping to launch and run the Urban Food Awards. 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.

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