Free webinar: Reopening, rebuilding, retaining customers

Photos © E5 Bakehouse, M's Bakery, Forge Bakehouse, Welbeck Bakehouse, Le Petit Prince and The Boatyard Bakery & Cafe

Published: Tuesday 9 June 2020

As we all start moving out of lockdown, please join the Real Bread Campaign, Sustainable Food Places and London Food Link from 3 - 4.30pm on Wednesday 24 June for a FREE webinar.

Whether you run a Real Bread bakery, veg box scheme or other good food retail outlet or eatery offering good food to go, you’ll have the chance to ask questions as well as share what has (and hasn’t) worked for you.

Webinar recording

Minutes/seconds from start

03:30        Intro by Sarah Williams
15:22        Andrew Stephan, Sustainable Restaurant Association,
23.16        Nicki East, Better Food Traders & Jean Bergin, Local Greens
41.10       Q&A
46.50       Chris Young, Real Bread Campaign
50.52       Jess Kopp, E5 Bakehouse
58.18       Emma Parkin, Emma's Bread
1:07:30    Julie Smith, Good Food Exeter
1:16:12    Q&A
1:23:28    What next, Sarah Williams

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While we have you…

Share your stories and photos

To help inform and inspire fellow Real Bread business owners, we’re collecting and publishing photos and stories of how bakeries, mills and baking schools have been doing things differently during lockdown.

If you run one, it would be great if you could send us yours, please. Find out more.

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Jobs

Find and add details of Real Bread, and other good food, job opportunities on our Roots To Work site.

Dates for your diary

4 July: Love Your Local Loafers launch on Independents’ Day
1-30 September: Sourdough September

For details, keep an eye on the Real Bread Campaign’s frequent enewsletters (sign up ) and social media accounts.

In the meantime, don’t forget you can login to add details of your own classes and other events (including online ones) to our calendar.

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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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