Hello from Planet Leicester Bakers! It’s been some months since the website became impossible to edit. A moment coinciding with the change of the world as we knew it with COVID-19 ravaging across the planet. Although the website has been suspended there has been plenty of action on social media (do follow via the buttons …
Welcome back to a world of Zoom and Bread Bike deliveries Read More »
Time for news of changes in the business! Various technical changes have happened with the website recently but ongoing site problems mean editing is currently suspended. So, what will you see when we have the solution and can edit again? A number of changes have taken place over the past few months. Plans for the …
PLEASE NOTE: OFFER ENDED 13 MAY 2020. PLEASE LOOK OUT FOR NEWS OF CURRENT ONLINE TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES Over the past few years many people have shared memories of themselves or their mums trying to bake bread during the national crisis that was the 1970’s Bread Strikes. Turning out a ‘bread brick’ has been the common …
Beat the Brick! Skype Bread Baking Together sessions now on offer Read More »
We are delighted to be celebrating Real Bread Week 2020. This week Planet Leicester Bakers is featured on the Real Bread Campaign website. The focus this year is the many real bread bakers around the country who are using good bread to do good things. And I’m delighted that Planet Leicester Bakers has been asked …
Real Bread Week 2020 – News featuring Planet Leicester Bakers Read More »
As we free-wheel towards Christmas, the Bread Bike initiative has proven a great hit in this momentous anniversary year for Planet Leicester Bakers. Launched in the summer to mark the business’s fifth year of trading and community activity, the Bread Bike success represents all that is great about this community micro-business. Every fortnight new special …
Bread Bike: Great Hit in Bakery’s 5th Anniversary Year Read More »
Sharing Bread+ is an exciting new community project from charity group Reaching People in partnership with Planet Leicester Bakers. Using bread to create safe space for debate, the project seeks to challenge stigma and judgement. It will encourage people to come together to find ways to strengthen relations and build togetherness within communities and also …
Challenging Stigma and Judgement with Bread: ‘Sharing Bread+’ Launches in Leicester Read More »
Delivery of the year long Baking a Difference project drew to a wonderful close at Wyggeston and Queen Elizabeth I College. Three young women and a staff member were invited to take part in bread making in the school kitchen. They absolutely loved it! Project partners Learning for the Fourth Age are always keen to …
Baking a Difference: A Grand Finale. And a Bread Bike! Read More »
Bunnies have been the order of the day for Care Home residents in the run up to Easter. Using a lovely French sweet dough from Bath-based baker Richard Bertinet, the residents have shaped balls of dough and dough ropes for outlines. The shape’s structure offers a lovely ‘sharing bread’ for all residents in the homes …
Attendees at the Patient Information Forum event last week warmly welcomed the concept of using bread to engage people around health. The event, ‘Reaching and Engaging Hard to Reach Groups in the Provision of Health Information’, was a fascinating day of presentations from health communications professionals. The focus was particularly people and communities that are …
Sharing Bread at the Patient Information Forum, London Read More »
2019 is already looking and being very busy! Current community work, new project plans and a fast growing list of public speaking engagements are all underway. Not to mention an updated website design…
