Bread Angels – Learn to set up a home baking business
Becoming a home baker: What is Bread Angels
At Virtuous Bread we see a network of people up and down the land running their very own home baking businesses. We call this Bread Angels and believe there will come a time when every community has a Bread Angel! Currently the course is run in West London, North London, Leicester, and North Norfolk.
The benefits of becoming a Bread Angel include:
1. Bread Angels have their own businesses, earning money by working from home.
2. Bread Angels build relationships in their local communities by getting to know the people and businesses close to them, and by becoming a lynch pin.
3. Bread Angels give people access to good bread locally.
How to become a Bread Angel:
Take the Bread Angel course and learn to build your own business in which you bake bread at home and deliver it locally to your neighbours, local cafes, delis, day centres, schools, farmers' markets, etc. The amount you can earn is a function of how much you want to bake and how much you can bake in your own oven.
Bread Angels have the option of continuing their relationships with Virtuousbread.com. We are developing a new website that will contain a Bread Angel finder so people can find you. We also have the amazing Emmeline who has her finger on the pulse of local press, food organisations, bread groups, and other related bodies. She helps Bread Angels publicise themselves so they are swamped with sales enquiries. After a period of three months during which we work hard to make sure you are as successful and well known as possible, we ask for a donation of £50.00 per year to cover the costs of running the website and to enable us to continue doing good through bread.
How to become a Bread Angel trainer:
Once you have become a Bread Angel and have spent a few months building up your business, you may want to become a Bread Angel trainer - teaching others how to become Bread Angels. We love it when that happens because it means there will be even more Bread Angels out there earning dough by making bread (sorry, it had to be said at least once on this site!).
To become a trainer you need to take the "train the trainer course". During the course you teach other bread angels how to bake and anwer all the skill testing, bread related questions we can throw at you. We want to make you comfortable and confident. Once you have taken the course and have your wings we will list you on the Bread Angel website (under construction) so that people can find you and book bread courses easily. We take a 15% contribution for all courses booked through the Bread Angel website and this helps defray the cost of running the website and enables us to continue to do good through bread.
Being a Bread Angel and/or a Bread Angel trainer is so much more than being a baker or teaching baking - it is about being part of a community of home bakers who all have a shared aim: to change the world through bread.
To learn more about the course please click here.
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09. Mar, 2011
[...] Over the past three months, I have spent four great, difficult, challenging, successful, and sometimes not so successful, experimental, enjoyable, and interesting sessions with the four pilot Bread Angels. [...]
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Kate Falloon
10. Feb, 2011
Very interested in attending your bread angels course.
I currently work in the City (lawyer) and looking to start a new career at home (Hertford). Passionate about 'good bread' and whilst have had a go at home really need some instruction!
Therefore, if you could let me have some further information I would love to hear from you.
Kind regards,
Kate
Lynne
25. Feb, 2011
Bread making is a passion I now wish to upscale to be my living. My ambition is to actually grow the wheat for the bread and to 'nurture nature' from field to plate. I would love to do a course that combines bread making with setting up a bread making business. There is nothing like this in Northern Ireland. Please consider coming over as we have some of the best breads here you'll ever eat!!
Gaye
15. Aug, 2011
Just spent a hugely enjoyable two days on the Bread Angels Course. The course was delivered professionally but in a warm and inspirational manner. An unexpected bonus was a delicious lunch on both days! Good bread and a good lunch - what more could any girl ask for? Need now to put what I have learnt into practice. Look forward to attending further courses in the future and, hopefully, meeting up again with some of my fellow students. Keep up the good work Jane
Gaye
Sticky Mitts
virtuousbread
15. Aug, 2011
Hi Gaye and all the bread angels from the week end - Nick, Sarah, and Jean
it was such a pleasure to have met you all. I had such a lovely couple of days with you all and am thrilled to follow your progress and plans. I will let you know when Breadangels.com is up and running and will get busy building that bread oven so we can have a reunion! Jane
tess o connor
10. Oct, 2011
are there any bread angels in Sutton surrey
Mary Drury
06. Feb, 2012
I still can't find the course dates - Bread Angel 2 day course!!
where are they? Am I missing something. I click on 'click here' but it doesn't produce dates.
Beth
26. Feb, 2012
Please send details of dates and details of courses running in the near future.
virtuousbread
26. Feb, 2012
Dear Beth - which location? Leicester, London, or Norfolk?
Kelly
04. Apr, 2012
Hi I was interested in your courses in Leicester please
virtuousbread
05. Apr, 2012
Hi Kelly, thanks so much for your message. I will get Rosie, the Bread Angel in Leicester, to contact you as soon as possible!