COVID-19: BOOKING WORKSHOPS
Between March and July 2020, the baking school was unable to open for workshops due to COVID-19; every person booked onto a workshop within this timeframe was contacted and provided with a full-workshop voucher to book onto a date of their choice for a full 12 months after the original workshop date. Subsequent lockdowns in 2020 and early 2021 have been resulted in similar arrangements.
We very much hope our workshops are now up and running permanently and will not be subject to further mandated closures. However, in such an event, any workshops that have to be postponed due to government guidelines will be dealt with in the same way: attendees will be notified well in advance, and given a full-workshop voucher to allow them to move their booking.
You can book with full confidence.
Please see below for information on how we keep our guests safe and our premises regulation-compliant. These protocols are regularly reviewed and assessed.
We are so grateful for all your continued support!
We very much hope our workshops are now up and running permanently and will not be subject to further mandated closures. However, in such an event, any workshops that have to be postponed due to government guidelines will be dealt with in the same way: attendees will be notified well in advance, and given a full-workshop voucher to allow them to move their booking.
You can book with full confidence.
Please see below for information on how we keep our guests safe and our premises regulation-compliant. These protocols are regularly reviewed and assessed.
We are so grateful for all your continued support!
COVID-19: ATTENDING WORKSHOPS
NOTE: Please click here to read what some participants of our post-lockdown 1, regulation-compliant workshops have had to say about their experience!
From September 2021, arrangements for the running of workshops will change to take into account the change in Government guidelines.
Over the past eighteen months, all workshops that have been permitted to run have run at half capacity. This is unsustainable in the long term. Although the government have fallen short of mandating many additional Covid measures, for the sake of the comfort, confidence and safety of our students and staff we will be maintaining many of our original Covid protocols for the time being, namely:
Enhanced cleaning
Prior to your arrival, all areas of the bakery that you will come into contact with are given a deep clean. This does not just apply to work surfaces, but all touch surfaces such as light switches, taps, door handles, chair backs etc. This, by its very nature, is a last minute additional clean. It is done in the 30 minutes prior to your arrival and we would therefore ask that you do not arrive earlier than the workshop start time (usually 09.45).
Ventilation
If the weather allows, we will enjoy our lunch and breaks in the garden. We will always endeavour to maximise ventilation: weather permitting, we will keep external doors open to facilitate this. In inclement weather, there will be regular breaks where the rooms used will have a total 'flushing' of fresh air throughout.
Handwashing/personal sanitisation
New hand sanitiser stations will be available both on entry to the premises and where food/drink is partaken. Students will be encouraged to wash their hands regularly and disposable paper towels will be provided.
Face masks
We ask that you wear a mask or visor whilst working at the dough benches. When enjoying breaks, lunch etc, they will not be needed. However, when working together, where social-distancing is not always possible, we believe it is an important measure of consideration to each other, that we continue to wear masks/visors. We are all used to them now (the visors are very unobtrusive) and their presence continues to provide greater confidence when socialising. We hope there will come a time in the near future when they will no longer be necessary but it is not this side of the winter! Additional masks/visors will always be available at the bakery - just ask.
Food and bread handling
Staff will take extra precautions in addition to the high standards of hygiene already employed and will wear gloves when handling food for serving. For the time being, lunches will continue to be served by staff, rather than ‘buffet style’ self-service.
Bread reaches 95C in the oven, it is therefore free of any contamination once baked, whatever the handling and process to that point. All baked bread will be handled solely by a member of staff. Students will no longer be able to pick the loaves they have baked from communal baskets. Instead, their bread will be handed to them in pre-prepared bags or boxes.
Self-isolation
It is understood that any student attending will not have had the onset of any COVID-19 symptoms or knowingly been in contact with anyone displaying said symptoms within the preceding 14 days. It will be drawn to their attention before any workshop that all students are declaring, by their attendance, that they can satisfy these conditions.
From September 2021, arrangements for the running of workshops will change to take into account the change in Government guidelines.
Over the past eighteen months, all workshops that have been permitted to run have run at half capacity. This is unsustainable in the long term. Although the government have fallen short of mandating many additional Covid measures, for the sake of the comfort, confidence and safety of our students and staff we will be maintaining many of our original Covid protocols for the time being, namely:
Enhanced cleaning
Prior to your arrival, all areas of the bakery that you will come into contact with are given a deep clean. This does not just apply to work surfaces, but all touch surfaces such as light switches, taps, door handles, chair backs etc. This, by its very nature, is a last minute additional clean. It is done in the 30 minutes prior to your arrival and we would therefore ask that you do not arrive earlier than the workshop start time (usually 09.45).
Ventilation
If the weather allows, we will enjoy our lunch and breaks in the garden. We will always endeavour to maximise ventilation: weather permitting, we will keep external doors open to facilitate this. In inclement weather, there will be regular breaks where the rooms used will have a total 'flushing' of fresh air throughout.
Handwashing/personal sanitisation
New hand sanitiser stations will be available both on entry to the premises and where food/drink is partaken. Students will be encouraged to wash their hands regularly and disposable paper towels will be provided.
Face masks
We ask that you wear a mask or visor whilst working at the dough benches. When enjoying breaks, lunch etc, they will not be needed. However, when working together, where social-distancing is not always possible, we believe it is an important measure of consideration to each other, that we continue to wear masks/visors. We are all used to them now (the visors are very unobtrusive) and their presence continues to provide greater confidence when socialising. We hope there will come a time in the near future when they will no longer be necessary but it is not this side of the winter! Additional masks/visors will always be available at the bakery - just ask.
Food and bread handling
Staff will take extra precautions in addition to the high standards of hygiene already employed and will wear gloves when handling food for serving. For the time being, lunches will continue to be served by staff, rather than ‘buffet style’ self-service.
Bread reaches 95C in the oven, it is therefore free of any contamination once baked, whatever the handling and process to that point. All baked bread will be handled solely by a member of staff. Students will no longer be able to pick the loaves they have baked from communal baskets. Instead, their bread will be handed to them in pre-prepared bags or boxes.
Self-isolation
It is understood that any student attending will not have had the onset of any COVID-19 symptoms or knowingly been in contact with anyone displaying said symptoms within the preceding 14 days. It will be drawn to their attention before any workshop that all students are declaring, by their attendance, that they can satisfy these conditions.