Bread to Believe In

Love Loaves Workshops are for people who want to bake bread they can believe in. That means knowing exactly what’s in it and where it came from, and being sure that the baking process has optimised, rather than crucified, the nutritional value of the loaf.

It also involves showing how anyone who takes the time, can create something beautiful, delicious and still rather rare: a fragrant, hand-made loaf of real bread.

Beginning to bake.

For beginners, or for people who can’t quite remember how their grannies taught them to bake bread, Love Loaves Workshops offer a relaxed, informal setting in which to have some fun and get your hand in again.

Baking and selling.

For people who may be considering a new, home-business venture, we also offer something  unique: our Mini-Bakery Blueprint, designed especially to inspire you with the confidence to start baking and selling bread from home.

Our recipe is simple.  We invite you into our home, teach you to bake organic yeasted or sourdough breads and, for Blueprint participants, demonstrate how a one-up, one-down cottage can become a thriving village bakery!

By the end of the day you will be happy, floury and ready to ‘toast’ your success with a glass of something tasty, before leaving with a bag of fantastic, still-warm loaves under your arm.

We’re looking forward to baking with you soon!

Workshop Dates and Fees:

As “The Smallest Bakery in the World”, our class sizes are naturally limited, which ensures a very high level of individual attention. Lunch, teas and coffees are included in the price, and partners who may have been sightseeing around the beautiful city of Oxford are welcome to join us for a cup of tea or a glass of wine at the end of the day.

Our one-day workshops are available Mon, Tues,Weds andThurs, so all you have to do is email us your own preferred dates and we’ll tell you what places are available.

(If you are facing financial difficulties due to redundancy or unemployment, please feel free to let us know and we will consider discounting our fees.)

The Classic Love Loaf Class – 11am to 2.30pm

Learn to bake organic white and wholemeal loaves, using the classic Love Loaves method, plus either home made pizza, or Mediterranean Soda Bread -  the fastest seller on the block!

Fee: £115 per person per day

Follow-up telephone or email support is available free of charge.

The Sourdough Sessions – 11am to 5pm

Learn how to make a wild yeast starter, how to manage your ‘mother’ (it can be done!) and how to bake an impressive selection of white and 100% rye sourdoughs.  Complimentary bag of starter to take home so you can start at once!

Fee: £135 per person per day

Follow-up telephone or email support is available free of charge.

Your Hands On Business – The Mini Bakery Blueprint Day

11am to 3pm

Fee: £185 per person per day

The Mini Bakery Blueprint Day can be adapted to suit complete beginners, or those with some baking experience already.  Participants can choose either a Sourdough Session or a Classic Love Loaf Class as the hands-on part of their day.

While we are working, waiting for dough to rise and chatting over lunch, Dragan will offer advice on the practicalities of a home bakery business: how we dealt with Health & Safety, Planning Permission, selecting equipment and suppliers, flour storage and how to fit your baking into your personal lifestyle – i.e. “What time do you start in the morning?!”

Penny will then bring the benefits of her 20-year career in advertising to help you define a simple strategy for branding and marketing your delicious creations.

The Mini Bakery Blueprint is a printed folder including recipes, mixing charts, equipment lists, supplier suggestions and invaluable information on outlay costs, costs per loaf and profit margins, plus anything else we think of that will help you.  This will be handed to you to take home.

Follow-up telephone or email support is available free of charge.

Baking under the Bell: Dragan’s Fire Bread! workshops can be arranged (Mondays to Thursdays) to teach the traditional Croatian method of baking on a wood fire under the ‘peka’, or cast iron bell, imparting a unique shape, texture and flavour to the loaf. Please visit our gallery page click on ‘Peka’, or call Dragan for more information M:07886280800

To book,

please email us on  bakers@loveloaves.biz , quoting your preferred date and the title of the workshop.  Once we confirm availability, we request payment via BACS transfer- we’ll send you the account details when we reply – or cheque.   Cancellations will be refunded up to 10 days in advance of the course, but are non-returnable after that.  If Love Loaves is forced to cancel any dates, then of course you will be refunded in full.

Gift Vouchers.

We offer personalised Gift Vouchers towards the cost of a Love Loaves Workshop from £10 upwards – ideal  gifts for family and friends.  Simply email us your request with the details and name of the recipient, transmit payment via BACS, and we will post you a printed Voucher by return.

Knead To Know (sample) has just been published by the Real Bread Campaign. It forms a comprehensive guide to setting up as an artisan baker, whether from home, on your own behalf, or as a service to your local community.  Thoroughly well-researched, easy to read, and with practical insights from some of the best bakers around, we are now selling it as a valuable companion to our Mini Bakery Blueprint Workshop. You can buy a copy at the Workshop, or email us with your order (price £15 plus postage & packing).  But be warned; it might just change your life!

If you would like to join the Real Bread Campaign please go to: www.realbreadcampaign.org

Funforlife Charity

Love Loaves gives 10 per cent of its profits on workshops to Funforlife, the charity we run to help children in the aftermath of disaster or social neglect.  We are currently raising funds for vulnerable children in India and Haiti.  To find out more, please click www.funforlife.org.uk

Educating, Inspiring, Entertaining

51 Godstow Road, Oxford OX2 8PE

www.funforlife.org.uk info@funforlife.org.uk

Tel: 07886 280 800

Funforlife Ltd – Reg Co Number  04900508 -  Reg Charity 112114