Anfield Bakery saved

The old Mitchells Bakery is to reopen as a community run business and training facility. Homebaked Community Land Trust has raised the money they need through crowdsourcing for an oven.

17/1/2013

Jess Doyle one of the campaigners involved in the bakery said: “We have reached our target with 14 days still left of the campaign, but every penny donated can still help. We have been amazed with the response to this and now have supporters from all over the world, which is more than we could have hoped for. Ok so we have enough money for our oven but we still need a fridge and a coffee machine, that's kind of our message right now.”

www.kickstarter.com/projects/1627172835/an-oven-at-the-heart-of-anfield

Over the last 2 and half years, artist Jeanne van Heeswijk, commissioned by Liverpool Biennial, has been working with people from Anfield and Breckfield to rethink the future of their neighbourhood.

2Up 2Down provides a way for local people to “take matters into their own hands” and make real social and physical change in their neighbourhood. Local people of all ages are collaborating in the development of the project, volunteering their time and energy, and committing to play an active part in the long term.

Architects URBED and other design specialists have worked with the community to re-model a block of empty property including the former Mitchell’s Bakery and the two terraced houses next door. Taking the whole community as their “client”, they have designed an affordable housing scheme, bakery shop and kitchen, meeting and project spaces, with the needs of real individuals in mind. The scheme presents a positive alternative to the demolitions and clearances of recent years.

At the same time, the group have set up Homebaked Community Land Trust – a co-operative organisation with its roots in the garden city movement – to enable the collective community ownership of the properties, and a co-operative business to reopen the Bakery as a social enterprise.

For more information go to http://www.2up2down.org.uk/

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