Real Bread workshops for local community food access projects

This March and April, Sustain's Real Bread Campaign and Food Coops project team up with local Real Bread bakers to run a series of hands-on workshops in Bristol, Durham, London and Sheffield.

Each offers an introductory lesson in basic Real Bread making skills to give you the confidence to start baking, and inspiration for how and why to start making Real Bread available through your project. Places are available workshop for people representing:

• food buying co-operatives registered at foodcoops.org
• other local community food access projects

Sheffield 17 March 2012
Venue: Regather, Sheffield
Tutor: Chris Baldwin, Cat Lane Bakery
Time: 2-7pm
Price £TBC per person*

Bristol 28 March 2012
Venue: Square Food Foundation, Knowle West, Bristol
Tutor: a Square Food Foundation chef
Time: 6-9pm
Price: £25 per person* (including cake and a cuppa)

Durham 30 March 2012
Venue: St. Antony's Priory, Durham
Tutor: Lesley Suddes, The Bread Lady
Time: 5.30-8.30pm
Price £15 per person* (including soup, a cuppa and biscuits)

London 15 April 2012
Venue: The Hornbeam, E17
Tutor: The Hornbeam Bakers' Collective
Time: 11am - 4pm
Price £30 per person* (including cake, a cuppa and pizza)

*This cost will be covered by Food Coops for people representing a food buying cooperative registered with FoodCoops.org

The application form and full details can be found here.

For more information please email realbread@sustainweb.org

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For more information please contact Chris Young: chris@sustainweb.org or 0203 5596 777
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Current major initiatives from the Real Bread Campaign include:

• Real Bread on The Menu: the Campaign’s scheme to encourage more public sector institutions (such as schools, care homes and hospitals) and food access projects (e.g. co-operative buying groups, community cafes, box schemes) around Britain to make Real Bread available.
• 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 in the spring and grow it, mill it, bake it, eat it, to follow the Real Bread journey from seed to sandwich on their own doorsteps.
• 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 Loaf Mark: Want to find Real Bread? Then Look for The Loaf Mark! This is the at-a-glance assurance from a baker that a loaf is what the Campaign calls Real Bread.
• 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.

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 also provides generous annual funding to the Campaign.