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.
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.
Our opening hours are:
Wed-Fri: 12-6
Saturday: 8-1
Visit us at 1421 Pershore Road, Stirchley, B30 2JL (map)
Sweets This Week
Sticky Ginger Cake (Ve)
Cranberry & Raspberry Chocolate Flapjack (Ve)
Double Chocolate Chip Cookies (Ve)
Spiced Honey Rye Loaves
Cinnamon Bun Pudding
Treacle Tart
Cherry Pie
Saturday Sourdough Specials
Pumpkin
Beetroot
No reservations - first-come, first-served.
This Week's Lunches
Wednesday
Tarka Daal with Sourdough (Ve)
Thursday
Pot Pie: Potato and Vegetable (Ve)
Friday
Curry: Mushroom, Kale and Lentil with Sourdough (Ve)
Salt Beef with Pickles + Mustard on Challah
Wed - Fri
Sourdough Pizza: Butternut, Rosemary, Chilli Oil, Scamorza & Mozzarella (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
Just a reminder that these are the last of our Cookery School classes for 2025 - so if you’d like a spot, now is the time to book as they are all almost full!
If you’re already thinking about gifts, our Cookery School Gift Vouchers make perfect Christmas presents and can be redeemed anytime in 2026, once we’re settled in our new home.
All-Day Classes with Availability:
🥖 Simply Sourdough 🥖
Saturday 22nd November 2025 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.
🥐 Sweet Breads & Viennoiserie 🥐
Saturday 29th November 2025 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.
🍞 Bread: Back to Basics 🍞
Saturday 6th December 2025 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.
Evening Classes with Availability:
🍝 Handmade Pasta 🍝
Wednesday 5th November 2025 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.
🥘 Thaali 🥘
Tuesday 18th November 2025 6:30–9:30pm
Join Chef Haseen and learn the secrets of another Indian speciality - Thaali - popular in India, Nepal, Fiji, Sri Lanka, Mauritius and Singapore. A hands-on workshop where you can feast on all the dishes you make family-style, so arrive hungry!
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.
Tell Us What You’d Like to See in Loaf’s New Cookery School
We’re getting ready to move into our new home at Stirchley Co-operative Development in early 2026 and we would love your input to help shape Loaf’s next chapter!
As part of our plans, 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.
What’s On in Birmingham This Week
– Ethical & Sustainable Picks
Sustain Midlands UnConference - Thursday 30 October 2025 at University College Birmingham. A one-day interactive gathering of community groups, businesses and individuals working on real sustainability challenges in the Midlands.
People, Planet, Pint Meetup - Also on the 30th October, at Button Factory, 25 Frederick Street, Birmingham B1 3HH. Informal, welcoming session for anyone interested in sustainability conversations.
Net Zero to Food Hero by Changekitchen CIC - Friday 31st October 2025 at ChangeKitchen CIC Kindness Café, 196 Edward Rd, Birmingham, B12 9LX. ‘Breakfast with a difference’ as we talk climate-friendly catering for corporates, public sector organisations and environmentally-led entrepreneurs.
Support our Crowdfunder!
A Huge Thank You! 💛
We’ve been absolutely blown away by your support - in less than two weeks, we’ve already reached 33% of our £25,000 target! Your generosity and enthusiasm mean the world to us.
There’s still a way to go - 67% to reach our goal - so please keep spreading the word and sharing our campaign with anyone who might want to get involved.
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.
Thanks for all your Continued Support
See you soon!
Dorit, Michael, Dave, Oli, Fliss, Rach, Neil, Molly, Mina, Pete & Kate
Address: 1421 Pershore Road, Stirchley, B30 2JL - map
Website: loaf.coop
Updates on: Instagram
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