Ivy Kong running a Scotland The Bread train-the-trainer workshop. Copyright: Lyndsay Cochrane
The Fife Fermenter is crowdfunding
Scotland the Bread needs your help to raise £1,750 by 30 June 2023.
The not-for-profit organisation is planning to set up The Fife Fermenter at Bowhouse, home to its mill, as an HQ for non-commodity grain and Real Bread teaching, outreach and citizen science research. Balcaskie Estate has offered a building at Bowhouse rent-free for the new project.
As a stepping-stone towards The Fife Fermenter, Scotland the Bread needs to run The PreFermenter to test its plans and demonstrate to potential funders evidence of need and benefit of the main project. In order to run this pilot project, they need to raise around £25k, for which they need to hire a professional fundraiser…which is what the crowdfunding will pay for – phew!*
The organisers say: “With the successful completion of The People’s Bread project, Scotland The Bread is like a starter that’s been put back in the fridge after a tasty baking session. To make more good things happen, we need to refresh it. Are you in? Please donate today. Even £1 will help.”
Scotland the Bread honorary chair (and Real Bread Campaign co-founder) Andrew Whitley added: “There’s much talk in policy circles of a Just Transition from the damaged present to a better future. Scotland The Bread is incubating, not just a transition, but the transformation in our food system that is urgently needed, for good and all.”
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*This is the way things often work in the charity world. You apply for money for a project, but the potential funder asks you to prove what you plan is needed and will be beneficial – which means raising money to test your project to demonstrate it will work. Funders don’t tend to like funding fundraising, but if you do manage to get a pilot project funded, you then go back to the potential funder of the main project (if the grant is still available, that is) and hope they don’t turn round and say ‘sorry, we’re not giving you any money for something you’ve already started’. This catch 22 has scuppered a number of the Real Bread Campaign’s plans over the years…
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