The Scottish Festival of Real Bread is back, and it’s the perfect way to kick off Real Bread Week 2025 (15 to 23 February)!

This celebration of the best in bread-making offers the chance to immerse yourself in the world of Real Bread, from simply eating it to debating the future of grain systems. Once again, a highlight of the Festival will be the awards ceremony of the annual Scottish Bread Championship, as well as a communal bread stall selling some of the finest loaves Scotland has to offer.

The programme is currently being finalised, but events so far confirmed include:

• Live demonstrations: learn from the experts as they demonstrate techniques ranging from dough shaping to roti-making

• Children’s workshops: let your little ones get hands-on in our sourdough flatbread workshops, designed for young bakers.

• Sourdough troubleshooting sessions: struggling with your starter? Bring your questions to our experts for on-the-spot advice

• Film screenings, including Celebrating Scottish Grains and a filmed version of Arise! Songs & Stories for the Bread Revolution

• The Big Thrash: hands-on threshing for children!

• Research events and panel discussions on shaping the future of vital grain networks

  Entry is free, but some events will be ticketed and donations are encouraged to support Scotland The Bread’s work.

  Scottish Bread Championship
  The Scottish Bread Championship will be judged on Friday 14th, and this year we particularly want to support as many people as possible to feel confident enough to enter The People’s Bread category. The ‘People’s Bread’ is simply a well-fermented loaf, made with a high proportion of locally-milled organic Scottish-grown grain, aimed at producing a nutritious, affordable and accessible bread for everybody. It could be sourdough or flatbread, a tin loaf or rolls. Read more about our standard here.

  The Championship might be a competition but it’s also a celebration: we’d like to encourage you to work towards submitting your best loaf, not necessarily trying to beat everyone else’s, and are here to support everyone towards the ultimate result – baking the loaf you want.

  More information about how to enter the Scottish Bread Competition will be shared closer to the time.

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