Why did I set up Virtuous Bread? I love baking bread – CHECK I am good at making bread, teaching baking, and running a business (by dint of the fact that I have customers and a business that is profitable) – CHECK I can get paid for baking bread and teaching others to bake bread
Baking and sharing bread are two of the keys to living a long and healthy life… 10 years ago, National Geographic magazine, Dan Buettner, and a group of demographers began a search for the keys to a long and healthy life. They identified five “blue zones” – places in the world where people live to 100 years of
…and in the end, they are all personal. Recently, Gaye taught the microbakery course to three lovely people. This means that there are three new microbakers in the UK delivering excellent bread to people and businesses in their local communities. Three new Bread Angels. People do the microbakery course for lots of different reasons: to teach,
“Soda bread is my specialty…it sounds geeky but I just love the feel of dough.” Bread really can change lives. Francesca Barker took a micro bakery course last year and it changed her life. Listen to her story here. You can read more about Francesca here and if you are inspired to become a micro
Micro businesses are an important segment of the business population in the UK. They are technically defined as businesses with fewer than 10 employees and less than 2 million euros of turnover. 2 million euros? I’ll take that (or half that or a tenth of that) and be running a business on whose profits I
A couple of weeks ago saw a celebration of Women on the Move in London. Women on the Move is an organisation that champions refugee and immigrant women and the awards ceremony is an important event in their calender. Liz, from Just Bread, contacted them to see if the women on the Just Bread baking
The Just Bread project goes from strength to strength. The women are growing in confidence, today they are going to sell the bread they make and next week they are catering an event! WOW! For the event we actually need to move from Myatt’s Fields because the oven is not big enough for us to
“I am a human being, but on the strength of my imagination – tied as it is – I can be a bridge” Hannah Hoch wrote this in her diaries. She was a German artist who was born at the end of the 19th century and who died at the end of the twentieth. Her
Italian bread is perfect for sharing. Whether it is tearing apart big fluffy-crispy focaccia at a party or dipping grissini into a communal bowl of something lovely or arguing loudly about how to fry garlic while you rip up ciabatta to mop up the sauce on your plate…..(I have begun to dribble). This week at
Just Bread’s objective is to help refugees develop economic autonomy so they can make a positive contribution to the UK more quickly. Click below to help us buy a new oven – our current oven is small and, frankly, a bit rubbish for bread. Click below to help us pay the amazing Bread Angel