Real Bread bakeries scoop more awards

Real Bread on the podium. Credit: Canva

Published: Thursday 13 July 2023

Following the announcement in May of its county champions, Bakery Business magazine has named its regional winners in the National Bakery Awards. The current Real Bread Campaign supporters on the list are:

Wales: Alex Gooch Artisan Baker
North East: Northern Rye
West Midlands: Live Love Loaf

Having been selected as county champion for Kent, Real Bread Map listed Bradbourne Bakery in Sevenoaks was crowned National Bakery of the Year.

Real Bread Campaign co-ordinator Chris Young said: “Congratulations to them and all Campaign supporters amongst the county champions, as well as all of the other Real Bread bakeries recognised by the National Bakery Awards.”

At the time of writing, the regional winners hadn’t been published on the National Bakery Awards website.

A shout to our supporters

When reporting on awards, we tend to focus on current Campaign supporters as a small thing we can add to our thanks to them for backing our work.

We sometimes also give a nod to bakeries that, while not Campaign supporters, have confirmed they make at least some additive-free products by adding their details to the Real Bread Map.

Due to the time involved in cross-referencing lists of winners in larger awards against our own database, in some cases we limit our reporting to the winners of higher-level awards.

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Everyone who makes Real Bread (ie additive-free) for sale is invited to add the details to the Real Bread Map.

Everyone, whether baker or not, is encouraged to join the Real Bread Campaign in support of our charity’s work.

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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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