The Sourdough School

BALM – Proven as one of the healthiest approaches to bread in the world.

Based in the walled gardens of Dr. Vanessa Kimbell's beautiful Victorian home in rural Northamptonshire, UK, we tutor individuals and train bakers and healthcare professionals in Baking as Lifestyle Medicine (BALM). Personalising bread to your lifestyle, gut microbiome, and unique genetics for optimal health—tailoring fermentation, fibre, and diversity so that your daily bread becomes the foundation of your health.

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3. 1 How we encourage openness, fairness, and transparency

6 ways we encourage openness, fairness, and transparency

  1. We do our utmost, within available resources, to remove any barriers which limit or discourage access to The Sourdough School or club.
  2. We take effective action immediately to provide information and encouragement and support to individuals and groups whose may been limited be stereotyping or using cultural misconceptions.
  3. We ask that all our team members follow policies and procedures that are fair, transparent and in line with our culture and ethos, and our legal and statutory responsibilities.
  4. We ask that we ensure our communications are fair and polite, but we point out wherever possible any decisions, behaviours and actions align with our ethical leadership framework, in a supportive non conformational way.
  5. We try to actively advance equality of opportunity
    We create recipes and approaches to our recipes that celebrates a diverse society
    Our community promotes good relations.
  6. At all times we eliminate all forms of unfair indirect and direct discrimination, bullying, harassment, by having an open policy we hope that we can set any misunderstandings straight as soon as possible to avoid any unnecessary distress.

The policy applies to all and underpins all The School and Club policies and procedures.

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