We want to run a community-owned bakery in the High Street of Dunbar to produce wholesome and tasty bread and other products baked on the premises. This new venture will fill the gap left on the High Street by the closure of Smith’s Bakery. We believe that a supply of good quality locally baked bread is fundamental to our future as a sustainable, healthy and resilient community.
We believe that the community bakery will help to breathe new life into the town centre and make it more attractive to local shoppers and visitors from further afield. It will provide a new source of employment and training in Dunbar and will strengthen the local community.
Eventually we want to be able to source locally grown and milled wheat/flour.
Draft Mission statement
Primary purpose
- To set up and run a community-owned home bakery in Dunbar that produces and sells wholesome and tasty freshly baked bread
- To develop a range of new and traditional bakery products that cater for both the mass market and specialist demand
- To become a well-known and respected provider of quality hand-made bakery goods to people throughout East Lothian
Sustainability
- To trade profitably so that the bakery becomes financially self-supporting and sustainable in the medium to long term
- To develop wholesale markets as well as retail sales through the bakery shop
- To react imaginatively to the challenges and opportunities that may arise over time so that the bakery remains a successful commercial venture that improves the life of the community
- To be as environmentally aware as possible in all we do
Social and economic benefit to the community
- To help revive the High Street of Dunbar so that it becomes more attractive as a shopping centre for local residents and as a destination for visitors
- To create a new source of employment, with the aim of eventually providing a source of social employment for local residents with specific support needs
- To play an active role in the regeneration of Dunbar as a thriving community that offers a better quality of life to all
- To promote healthy eating and an improvement in the local diet in conjunction with other local initiatives
