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
Apple Tart
Carrot Cake
Croissant Pudding
Blondie
Double Chocolate Chip Cookies (Ve)
Apple, Oat & Date Slice (Ve)
Saturday Sourdough Specials
Pumkin Seed & Marmite
Sage & Onion
No reservations - first-come, first-served.
This Week's Lunches
Wednesday
Tarka Daal with Sourdough (Ve)
Thursday
Soup: Roasted Tomato + Miso Soup with Cheesy Focaccia (V) OR Rosemary Sea Salt Focaccia (VE)
Friday
Spicy Veg Chilli with sourdough (VE) + optional sour cream (V)
Salt Beef with Pickles + Mustard on Challah
Wed - Fri
Sourdough Pizza: Ricotta Base, Red Onion, Mushroom, Potato, Pesto + 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.
We’ve been inundated with new date requests so next week we will be releasing some January 2026 courses just before we move to the new building.
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:
🥘 Thaali 🥘
Tuesday 18th November 2025 6:30–9:30pm - 1 space remaining!
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
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.
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 37% of our £25,000 target! Your generosity and enthusiasm mean the world to us.
There’s still a way to go - 63% 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!
Michael, Dave, Oli, Fliss, Rach, Neil, Molly, Mina, Pete, Kate & Dorit
Address: 1421 Pershore Road, Stirchley, B30 2JL - map
Website: loaf.coop
Updates on: Instagram
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