Panary helps Campaign to put Real Bread On The Menu

Paul Merry of Dorset-based baking school Panary is supporting the Real Bread Campaign's mission to help put Real Bread On The Menu of more public sector canteens around the country by offering cooks a generous 30% discount on selected courses.

Paul Merry said: ‘I'm very happy to be involved in helping to ensure that taxpayers’ money is spent on providing delicious Real Bread to some of the people in our society most at need of healthy, nutritious food.’

Chris Young of the Campaign added ‘This is a fantastic opportunity for public sector cooks to pick up skills and confidence to be able to put Real Bread On The Menu from one of the country’s most respected teachers of traditional bread making.’

The offer is open to cooks in public sector institution (such as schools or care homes) kitchens that don't currently make bread from scratch but are planning and equipped to do so. Prospective students simply need to visit the On The Menu page at www.realbreadcampaign.org to download, complete and return a short questionnaire. The Campaign will then put eligible applicants in touch with Panary to book a class at the discounted rate.

The Campaign is also working with Bordeaux Quay in Bristol to set a date for a workshop in the autumn, and still wants to hear from more teachers of professional bread making who’d also like to offer discounted or bursary places in their classes to public sector cooks. Public sector cooks already baking Real Bread are wanted as case studies, too.

The Real Bread Campaign is Part of Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming, and is funded by the Big Lottery Fund’s Local Food programme. The Campaign champions loaves produced as locally as possible without the use of artificial additives, and finds ways to make bread better for us, better for our communities and better for the planet.

Panary students benefit from the guidance of Merry, a master baker and teacher with over thirty years’ experience, in the atmosphere of a working watermill in rural Dorset. Panary also offers a consultancy service to people working in the craft sector of the baking industry.

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For more information about the Real Bread Campaign please contact Chris Young:
chris@sustainweb.org or 0203 5596 777
www.realbreadcampaign.org twitter.com/realbread facebook.com/realbreadcampaign

For more information about Panary please contact Paul Merry: info@panary.co.uk or 01747 823711
www.panary.co.uk

Notes to editors

Current initiatives from the Real Bread Campaign also include:

• 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 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.
• Lessons in Loaf: A FREE download for teachers on planning hands-on Real Bread making sessions for any age, plus lesson plans to tie the topic of bread in with a range of curriculum subjects at Key Stage 2.
• 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 and grow it, mill it, bake it, eat it, to follow the Real Bread journey from seed to sandwich on their own doorsteps

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 provides generous annual funding to the Campaign.