Christmas Opening Hours 2025

We will be opening on Tuesdays throughout December so you can get your Mince pie fix during the festive period!

Tue-Fri: 12 – 6pm

Sat: 8am – 1pm

Tue 23rd December: 12 – 6pm
Wed (Christmas Eve): 8am – 1pm

We will then be closed from the 25th December right through until we re-open on the 10th January 2026 for a well needed rest!

Loaf is a proudly co-operative-run bakery and cookery school based in Stirchley, South Birmingham since 2009. We aim to build community through real food and healthy living in Birmingham. Our bread and pastries are freshly baked on site along with hearty lunches for the workers of Stirchley, while next door we teach bread-making and cookery skills. Pre-orders are weekly open from Saturday afternoon for the following week. We look forward to meeting you!

News from Loaf

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  Christmas 2024!28th November 2024
  Its here again! December is upon us and we are getting ready for the next few weeks. We have our famous mince pies ( both butter and vegan) which will be for sale everyday throughout December alongside… Read more: Christmas 2024!
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  Cookery school vouchers and an explanatory leaflet12th December 2023
  Our cookery school vouchers sell so well that we often forget to promote them, but not at this time of year! Please consider giving the gift of a future food learning experience this Winterval by visiting this… Read more: Cookery school vouchers and an explanatory leaflet
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  For all your baking needs…12th December 2023
  We sell all the equipment you need to bake bread in your own home, from proving baskets to bread tins to wooden peels. See our equipment range. Along with flour you’d expect to find in a bakery,… Read more: For all your baking needs…
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  Local produce made locally by local people5th December 2023
  Over the last couple of years we’ve been increasing the range and availability of locally produced foodstuffs that go well with a nice slice of bread. We’re proud to say this is now a significant part of… Read more: Local produce made locally by local people
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  Aprons, totes and tea towels, oh my!5th December 2023
  We had our delivery from our screenprinters Do Make Say Ink of some lovely items designed by Molly. The headline is we finally, after talking about it for years, have a Loaf apron! Made from organic cotton… Read more: Aprons, totes and tea towels, oh my!
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  Bear Eats now on the shelves at Loaf14th September 2023
  We’re always looking for new local foodstuffs that go well with our bread, and were quite impressed with these chilli jams from Bear Eats who use them in the dishes they sell at food markets around town.… Read more: Bear Eats now on the shelves at Loaf
• New cooperative klaxon! 🚨12th September 2023
  Congratulations to the newest cooperatively-run enterprise on the block! York Supplies was successful in its share offer, raising £250,000 from the local community to buy this much-loved local business from its retiring owners. As you may know there… Read more: New cooperative klaxon! 🚨
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  Congratulations to Rea Valley Apiary!12th September 2023
  We popped along to the Birmingham Beekeepers show at Winterbourne this weekend and happened to catch the awards ceremony where Sharif Khan – whose Rea Valley honey we stock in our bakery shop – won nearly all… Read more: Congratulations to Rea Valley Apiary!
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  Kids Snack Packs report12th September 2023
  At the start of the summer break we announced our plan to prepare packs of snacks for kids whose families were struggling with the cost of living in the holidays and asked you for donations. We had… Read more: Kids Snack Packs report
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  So long and thanks for all the honey, Gareth12th September 2023
  If you’re a long-time patron of Loaf you’ll remember when we only stocked one local honey from ‘G Francis’ and might be wondering when they’ll be back on the shelves. After many years of beekeeping and supplying… Read more: So long and thanks for all the honey, Gareth