Real Bread Week is the annual, international celebration of additive-free loaves and the people who make them.
Find details of local Real Bread activities (and add details of your own) year round on our events calendar
Real Bread Campaign supporters can login to download:
Launched by the Real Bread Campaign in 2010 (originally as National Real Bread Maker Week), this is the annual, international celebration of Real Bread and people who make it.
Its three aims are to encourage and help people to:
Each year, bakeries and baking schools in the Real Bread Campaign supporter network around the world organise hold classes, feasts and other events and activities.
Bigging up little bakeries
It's time to kick the additive-laden industrial loaf habit and support YOUR local Real Bread baker!
Small, independent, locally-owned bakeries help to:
They may also offer social benefits, from being a place where older people at risk of isolation can see a friendly face and stop for a chat, to those that are set up to offer training and employment opportunities for people facing one of a range of challenges.
Don't be fooled by so-called 'artisan' loaves turning up on supermarket shelves: insist on the real deal.
Doughy digits
We're particularly keen to see more children learning to bake Real Bread, whether at home, in a bakery, baking school, nursery or in the classroom.
Not only is this great fun, but it's a way helping them to avoid all of the artificial additives that turn up in industrial loaves. It can also be a way of steering them towards healthier food - you'd be amazed at the number of children who 'don't like wholemeal' but love it when it was lovingly made by their own mitts.
NB The week isn't about cake or loaves raised with baking powder / soda. See our defintion of Real Bread
Join the campaign
The best way to support our charity's work is to join the Real Bread Campaign!
You don't have to be a baker to join us - in fact, the majority of our supporters aren't.
Support starts from £22.50 a year, that's LESS THAN £2 A MONTH.
As a thank you, we'll send you an exclusive magazine each quarter and have arranged more than 100 special offers on Real Bread ingredients, equipment, baking classes and more.
Read more about why and how to join, including the benefits your receive, here.
Find details of local Real Bread activities (and add details of your own) on our events calendar
How are YOU celebrating Real Bread Week this year?
Whether you're a teacher, professional or amateur baker (or even a non-baker), there are plenty of ways to help people in your local community enjoy Real Bread...and maybe even raise dough for the Campaign at the same time.
Even better if you team up with local good food organisations and/or other small-batch food and drink producers to make a real party of it.
Here are a few more ideas of events and activities. You could organise a Real Bread:
The more the merrier
Perhaps you could involve a community group such as your local:
If you are planning a class or other public event/activity, please add details to our events calendar NOW!
From 1 February to 8 March, Balcony Shirts will be producing a limited run of exclusive t-shirts, aprons and mugs, making a doughnation to the Real Bread Campaign for each one sold.
For details of the launch, join the Real Bread Campaign or sign up to receive free news updates.
Find details of local Real Bread activities (and add details of your own) on our events calendar
When you join in the fun, please share your #RealBreadWeek photos and stories on Twitter
You can also post photos and tales on the Real Bread Campaign Facebook wall.
Whatever Real Bread Week shenanigans you get up to, please share what you do!
Real Bread Campaign supporters can login to download:
As part of a charity, we need to show the positive effect our work has.
Please help us by dropping us a very short line after your event/activity to say:
Please also send us a photo or two of people getting involved in Real Bread Week.
We need:
Real Bread Week is an initiative of the Real Bread Campaign, part of the food and farming charity Sustain.
We currently receive no grants, advertising or sponsorship for Real Bread Week or any of the rest of our campaigning and project work.
In order for us to keep doughing good, we need to keep raising money to do it.
Can we count on your support?
Great!
Please remember to link back to www.realbreadcampaign.org whenever you refer to Real Bread Week - in print, online or social media.
Please also include @RealBread in any #RealBreadWeek Twitter posts.
***This goes especially for businesses using our charity's #RealBreadWeek as a marketing opportunity!***
The best way to support our charity's work is to join the Real Bread Campaign!
Make a doughnation
If you'd rather make a one-off donation than joining us, you can do so here.
Show us the money!
If you run a fundraising event or activity during Real Bread Week, it would be great if you could send what you raised to us by the end of May, please. You can do this in two ways:
We'll be publishing a roll of honour of all fundraisers. If you'd prefer your name not to appear on the list, please let us know.
We've published some great ones - including a fougasse - in our book Slow Dough: Real Bread.
There are more in the recipes section of our website.
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