Recipe for success as residents’ bakery is a step closer
Malcolm Alsop and Jo McNamara of Dunbar Community Bakery with some of the wholesome products that could soon be on offer in the new shop.
It is reminiscent of the industrial co-operative societies that formed the core of communities living through the hard times of yesteryear.
Hundreds of people from all walks of life have put their cash in for a slice of Scotland’s first community bakery, two years after their local shop closed its doors.
The Dunbar Community Bakery enterprise, whose 250 members have each bought shares worth between £50 and thousands of pounds, has bought a shop in the town’s High Street and is aiming to open an artisan bakery selling bread made on the premises by early next year.
Residents of the seaside town have welcomed the new venture, which will be housed in an old newsagent in an 18th-century A-listed building.
