Fancy learning how to set up your own home bakery?
Working with Payava Bakery, we are offering free, pay as you can, and paid masterclass skills workshops, which will help unemployed mums and women struggling financially to learn how to set up their own home baking businesses, similar to “Buns from Home.”
The classes are offered by a Ukrainian refugee master baker who lost everything and restarted her life in London as an unemployed mum. She has since established PAYAVA Bakery, and now wants to use her creative baking skills and her bakery to give back to the community that supported her.
Community Bakery 101
Free community bakery course, learning:
- Cookie making
- Cake making
- Icing
This course is for:
Women who are unemployed, job centre clients, and those without access to benefits.
The course location is TBD in RBKC.
For schools groups, the materials contribution is £5/participant.
This course is intended to be funded by local government skills funding.
Bakery Business 102
Want to try making your own home bakery business? Buns from Home started in a kitchen, you can too.
Learn how to:
- Create your concept
- Prepare a hygienic space
- Make budgets for materials
- Get the right certificates
- Register your business
- Develop a marketing plan
- Build a client base
- Improve your baking skills to a professional level
£25
(Pay as you can if unemployed or without benefits, materials contribution £5)
This course has two components: Technical & Practical. The technical part is held online for 2 hrs per week over 3 weeks. The practical part is held for 2 hrs weekly over 3 weeks at the Payava Bakery in Greenwich (easily accessible right outside Customs House tube station on Elizabeth line & DLR).
Bakery Masterclass 103
Looking to level up your skills to master baker standard? This master class will provide the skills to:
- Create unique designs for special occasions
- Expand your range of techniques
- Polish your skills to a professional level
- Familiarise you with professional equipment
- Prepare you for work in professional bakeries
£235/£135 subsidised
This class is for those with their own businesses and for those wanting to work for high level bakeries.
The course is run over 3 weeks, in four hour sessions at the Payava Bakery in Greenwich (A few feet from Customs House tube station, easily accessible via Elizabeth line and the DLR).
Payava Bakery
To book workshops:
Karmabank +447955636101 community@karmabank.co
Payava +447443440137 info@payava.co.uk
To order cakes and cookies:
Payava +447443440137 info@payava.co.uk
instagram @payava.co.uk
We are a bakery and food production enterprise specializing in the creation of artisanal baked goods and confectionery. We have a successful history and reputation as a producer of high-quality products in our home country, Ukraine.
Unfortunately, due to the devastation caused by the war, we were forced to leave our roots, abandoning not only our homes but also the business we painstakingly built. Starting over in a foreign country is an extremely challenging endeavor, especially when rebuilding both your life and business from scratch. The difficulties of adapting to a new environment, navigating unfamiliar regulations, and restoring a business that once thrived in our homeland have been significant, to say the least.
However, we are fully committed to creating and developing our business here in the UK. Our goal is to introduce the British public to our exceptional products, showcasing our dedication to quality and craftsmanship.