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As part of a small charity, the Real Bread Campaign needs to keep demonstrating to our trustees; and potential grant funders, donors and supporters that what we do works, is of value, and so is worth continuing and supporting.

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Published: Monday 15 May 2017

Thanks to eveyone who ran or took part in a Real Bread Week class, event or other activity.

To help the Campaign do it again - and better - next year, please email to us:

photos you took that you give us permission to publish and use to promote our work
the number of people who participated in the activity you ran
comments on the benefit you saw, personally (eg enjoying a baking class) or professionally (eg free publicity/media coverage and/or increased sales) during the week
links to any media coverage we missed
suggestions for how we can celebrate the week's 10th anniversary in 2018

Please send these by Friday 19 May 2017 to: realbread [at] sustainweb.org

Thanks in advance...and don't forget to get planning for the 5th annual #SourdoughSeptember!

PS - Our limited edition 'I Love Gluten' t-shirts and aprons are only available until 31 May 2017

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Real Bread Campaign: Finding and sharing ways to make bread better for us, our communities and planet.

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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 in the UK; he created and runs initiatives including: Sourdough September; Real Bread Week; Real Bread For All; Together We Rise, promoting therapeutic/social benefits of bread making; No Loaf Lost surplus reduction guidance; and Lessons in Loaf for schools. He’s the author of the Knead to Know…more microbakery handbook, Slow Dough: Real Bread recipe book and Bake Your Lawn grow-a-loaf guidebook; and edits True Loaf magazine.

From 2014-18, Chris also coordinated Sustain's London Food Link network, which included editing The Jellied Eel magazine and helping to launch and run the Urban Food Awards with the Mayor of London’s office. 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, and in 2025 he was named joint Person of The Year by Slow Food in The UK.

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Labelled with loaf. Credit: Chris Young / www.realbreadcampaign.org CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

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Andy Forbes at the EAGA gathering. Credit: Chris Young / www.realbreadcampaign.org CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

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Amy Hope's Sourdough September. Copyright: Infinity Bakery

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Scottish Festival of Real Bread 2025. Credit: Chris Young / www.realbreadcampaign.org CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

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