A SLAITHWAITE bakery has won a national award.
The Handmade Bakery received a national Co-operative award for its innovation and excellent work.
The business – which only started in March 2009 – already has 400 customers and produces 650 to 700 loaves of bread per week.
The award was presented at a ceremony in Plymouth.
David Button, chair of Co-operatives UK, which organised the event, said: “The Handmade Bakery is a relatively new business but it is already supplying its bread widely and has built up a reputation for the care and passion everyone puts into bread making. ”
Johanna McTiernan, one of the founders of The Handmade Bakery, said: “We are delighted to have been given this award. We have come so far in so little time.
“Everyone in the co-operative has worked hard to build an alternative model for community baking and we are all proud of its success.
“This award gives us even more determination to continue to promote real bread and co-operative ways of working.”
