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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BALM Partnership Support services

Scenes of people baking and chatting at the Sourdough School Marketing PR and Communications for BALM Partnerships

Our team includes the Lifestyle Medical Team and a full complement of media-trained medical experts, and our Creative Director is a filmmaker with the ability to deliver a beautifully-directed and impactful narrative of the research, development, and concepts to share our amazing collaborations and approach to creating breads that nourish. Fee: To be determined (TBD)

Media Production services

We can offer the production of short films if required. Using our experts as part of our communication strategy to share the narrative, details, research, and the high standards to which we research and develop the breads. Fee: Per project

Communications support

With over half a million followers across our social media channels, The Sourdough School is able to support our work on bread and the impact on the gut microbiome with a direct and innovative social media communications strategy. Fee: Per project

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For the promotion of Diversity Breads. Keeping the website up to date, content production, photography, social media content for Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, sharing knowledge, values, new research and products, projects, successes, achievements, celebrating our partnerships and collaborations, and the impact for change. Fee: Per project

PR Press and Marketing Services

If you are changing the way you make bread then we make sure that we find a way to share with respected bakers, food writers, and journalists, as part of our extensive network. Fee: Per project

We organise events here at the School where guests are invited to try your bread and better understand the amazing work that goes on behind the scenes. Fee: Per project

In conjunction with our social media strategy, the Ambassadorship includes all above-the-line media (in-person i.e., conferences, all social media, and website). It plays a central role in sharing the positive impact of good bread and how it makes us feel.

 

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All reasonable care is taken when advising about health aspects of bread, but the information that we share is not intended to take the place of treatment by a qualified medical practitioner. You must seek professional advice if you are in any doubt about any medical condition. Any application of the ideas and information contained on this website is at the reader's sole discretion and risk.

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