Start a Home Bakery Business

Turn your love of baking delicious fresh bread into a business from your home kitchen. 

Join my Start A Home Bread Bakery live online course this September and learn to create a business around something you truly enjoy. 

‘Your bread is so good, you should start selling it!’

Maybe your friends and family have said something similar as you gift them another delicious loaf fresh from your oven.

Perhaps you’re really considering selling your loaves, supplying your local community with freshly baked bread.

But knowing how and where to start can be overwhelming.

The questions soon begin: Do I need specialist equipment? Where do I find my first customers? What about food safety? Can I legally bake and sell food from my kitchen? Do I have enough space to start?

If these questions sound familiar, this course is for you.

Learn from someone who has done this 

I didn’t always have bread as a career.

I loved to bake at home and, after finding myself in a job I no longer recognised or enjoyed, I discovered a course helping people set up their own bread bakery from home. I jumped at the chance and The Epsom Bakehouse began.

Through selling bread I’d baked at home, teaching bread making in person and then online, I learnt to run a food business from home and discovered the huge value of support from others who had done the same.

That support made all the difference.

And I’d love to do the same for you.

This live online course is designed to give you practical guidance and the confidence to take your first steps towards starting a bread baking business from home.

What you’ll learn 

Over a series of small-group live online sessions, you’ll cover:

• Baking simple, reliable breads that customers will love
• Understanding flour, fermentation and sourcing ingredients
• Choosing what to sell and finding your ideal customers
• Pricing your breads
• Planning your bake days around your other commitments
• Production planning including when to bake, whether to deliver and scaling up
• Marketing your home bread bakery using local promotion and social media
• Practical requirements including registering with Environmental Health, preparing for food safety inspections, legal requirements of labelling your breads
• Simple business finances including record keeping, budgeting, invoicing and registering as self-employed with HMRC

You’ll also receive detailed course notes, recipes and practical templates you can use in your own business.

The important stuff 

Please note that advice given during this course is not legal or financial advice. You should consult relevant experts before establishing your business. Information given during the course on tax, accounting and legal requirements on which you should seek advice are all relevant to businesses being established in England and Wales and information on such areas cannot be given for businesses planned for outside England and Wales. 

How the course works

• 3 – 4 live online classes spread across several weeks, scheduled at a mutually agreed time
• Approximately 1.5 hours per session
• Small group teaching via Zoom
• Plenty of time for questions and discussions
• No previous business experience needed

To make sure everyone can receive personalised support, there are just three places available on the September course.

Will you need to bring anything?

For the online course, you may wish to buy bread flour, yeast and salt in advance if you wish to bake along with any of the bread making demonstrations. Otherwise, be prepared to discuss any intial plans you may have for your business.

Join a supportive community

On completion of the course, you’ll also become part of a wider, very supportive network of other home bread bakery owners – the Bread Angels community. This is a welcoming group of people who have also completed the course and set up their own bread bakery from home.

Kind words from previous course attendees

‘I highly recommend Rhiannon’s microbakery course. It…built my confidence in taking my ideas forward’ Julie, microbakery course attendee, November 2016

Previous course attendees have welcomed the personalised approach each course takes and the relaxed and informative atmosphere through the course.

September 2026 course

Fee: £480 per person

Places available: 3

If you’ve been considering taking the leap and selling your wonderful loaves from home, perhaps this is the time to take a first step to creating a business around something you love.

Book your place today.

The September course is limited to just three participants. Booking closes once those places are filled.

I’d love to help you turn your passion into a business.

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