This is the weekly bulletin from Loaf in Stirchley, with our specials, lunches and cookery school classes.
🍞 🥐 Pre-order your Bread and Pastries
Pre-order the bread and pastries to ensure you get what you want.
Our opening hours are:
Wed-Fri: 12-6
Saturday: 8-1
Visit us at 1421 Pershore Road, Stirchley, B30 2JL (map)
🎄 Christmas Opening Hours 🎄
We will be opening on Tuesdays throughout December so you can get your Mincepie fix during the festive period!
✨ Special Christmas Hours:
Tuesdays (from 2nd December): 12pm – 6pm
Christmas Eve: 8am – 1pm
These are in addition to our usual opening hours:
🕰️ Normal Opening Hours:
Wednesday – Friday: 12pm – 6pm
Saturday: 8am – 1pm
We will then be closed from the 25th December right through until we re-open on the 10th January 2026 for a well needed rest!
Sweets This Week
Carrot Cake
Scotcheroos (Ve)
Blondie
Banana, Oat & Date Slice (Ve)
Double Chocolate Cookies (Ve)
Saturday Sourdough Specials
Olive & Rosemary
Cheddar & Chilli
No reservations - first-come, first-served.
This Week's Lunches
Wednesday
Tarka Daal with Sourdough (Ve)
Thursday
Tomato, Tamarind and Lentil Soup served with Vada Pav - Spiced Potato Dumpling Roll with Green Garlic Chutney and Date Chutney (VE)
Friday
Curry: Roasted Cauliflower and Turnip Thai Yellow Curry with Sourdough (VE)
Salt Beef with Pickles + Mustard on Challah
Wed - Fri
Sourdough Pizza: Garlic Rosemary Roast Potato with Mozzerella and Vegetarian Parmesan(V)
Wed - Fri
Ham and Cheese Croissant
Rocket Pesto & Cheese Croissant (V)
Wed – Sat:
Sausage Roll
Vegetable Roll (Ve)
Lunches are made fresh weekdays from 12 noon.
Our menu for the week — with ingredients and allergens — is on the website.
Cookery School Classes
Cookery School Update
Our January 2026 cookery school dates are now live, follow the links to book now!
If you’re already thinking about gifts, our Cookery School Gift Vouchers make the perfect Christmas gift and can be redeemed anytime in 2026, once we’re settled in our new home.
All-Day 2026 Classes with Availability:
🍞 Bread: Back to Basics 🍞
Saturday 10th January 2026 9:30 - 4pm
Bread: Back to Basics is a day-long bread experience. In a world where real bread is so hard to come by, this course will equip you to make consistently good, wholesome bread at home. This hands-on course takes bread back to its essential ingredients - flour, water, salt and yeast - and teaches you a great repertoire of beautiful breads based on these basic building blocks.
🥐 Sweet Breads & Viennoiserie 🥐
Saturday 17th January 2026 9:30 - 4pm
A hands-on course exploring sweet breads and viennoiserie. You’ll learn to laminate dough and bake treats like cinnamon buns, cardamom knots, hot cross buns, croissants, pain au chocolat, danishes, and more.
🥖 Simply Sourdough 🥖
Saturday 24th January 2026 9:30 - 4pm
Spend a day learning the art of sourdough where you’ll cover everything from caring for your starter to kneading, shaping, proving, and baking both wheat and rye sourdough loaves. You’ll take home your own dough to bake the next day, plus starters and full recipes to continue baking confidently at home.
Evening Classes with Availability:
🍝 Handmade Pasta 🍝
Wednesday 21st January 2026 6:30-9:30pm
This course will teach you the skills to make fresh pasta at home, with fillings and sauces to accompany it. We will be showing you both hand rolling and cutting techniques as well as using a pasta machine. Recipes include a making fresh egg pasta to pair with classic sauces. We will make a classic carbonara, puttanesca and tortillini filled with ricotta and spinach.
Booking Info:
All equipment, recipes, aprons & refreshments provided.
Please check the individual class restrictions for dietary requirements and allergies, and get in touch with any queries.
Spaces are limited and booked on a first-come, first-served basis upon receipt of payment. We require 100% payment in advance for all of our courses.
New Shop Giftcards!
We are excited to announce that over the Christmas period we will be selling some physical gift cards for use in our shop - to buy bread, pastries, sweets, equipment, groceries or merchandise.
You can load any amount onto these gift cards and we believe they are the perfect gift for any Loaf customer or customer to be!
Just ask a member of staff at the checkout if you would like to purchase one.
Support our Crowdfunder!
A Huge Thank You! 💛
We’ve been absolutely blown away by your support - we’ve already reached 45% of our £25,000 target! Your generosity and enthusiasm mean the world to us.
There’s still a way to go - 55% to reach our goal - so please keep spreading the word and sharing our campaign with anyone who might want to get involved.
Tell Us What You’d Like to See in Loaf’s New Cookery School
Thanks to those who have already filled out the form below. I’m going to leave the link in the newsletter for a couple weeks in case anyone missed it last time!
We’re creating a new fully accessible cookery school, designed so that everyone can take part in our classes and events. We want to hear from our community - what kinds of cookery school classes, activities, and features would make the new space most welcoming and useful to you?
Please take 2 minutes to share your thoughts using our short survey:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScUnjj2jpOR_62S7LlLFYV5DJIdCPa9OzmiiIhps5JVLJb1YQ/viewform?usp=header
Your feedback will help us design an inclusive, vibrant space that truly serves Stirchley.
Gift Vouchers
Give the Gift of Learning!
If you’re thinking of gifting one class but you are not sure which one would be preferred you could buy a gift voucher instead.
Our vouchers can be purchased in any value you like for redemption against future bookings. Vouchers purchased online will give you a downloadable pdf which can be emailed to the recipient directly, or to you for printing and giving to them by hand. Alternatively you can come to us and buy vouchers in the shop.
Update on Donations for the B30 Foodbank
For now we have stopped taking donations for B30 Foodbank. Those who need it can still claim a free loaf from the Pay it Forward donations pot and we still donate our leftover bread to Incredible Surpluss and the B30 Foodbank at the end of each day, but for now we need to focus on raising funds to move to Stirchley Co-operative Development early next year. If you still want to make a cash donation to B30 Foodbank you can do via their website here.
Thanks for all your Continued Support
See you soon!
Fliss, Rach, Neil, Molly, Mina, Pete, Kate, Dorit, Michael & Dave
Address: 1421 Pershore Road, Stirchley, B30 2JL - map
Website: loaf.coop
Updates on: Instagram
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