Ethos Public Relations Manchester

The Handmade Bakery wins national co-operative award

by Ethos public relations

The Handmade Bakery in Slaithwaite, West Yorkshire - an innovative community supported artisan bakery - has been honoured with a national Co-operative Award.

The business, which only started trading in March last year, received a Co-operative Award 2010 in recognition of its innovation and excellent work.

David Button, Chair of Co-operatives UK, which organised the awards, 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.

“This care and passion deserves to be recognised and I am pleased to present them with a Co-operatives Award.”

Commenting on the co-operative’s success, Johanna McTiernan 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.”

The Handmade Bakery and five other co-operatives received their award at a special Gala Dinner in Plymouth recently - part of Co-operatives Fortnight.

The Handmade Bakery is part of a thriving co-operative economy. Latest figures from Co-operatives UK reveal that there are some 4,992 co-operative businesses in the UK with a combined turnover of some £34 billion.

To find out more about The Handmade Bakery please visit their website.

Posted at 30^th June 2010