# Anfield bakery on a roll following charity investment

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2019/03/19/anfield-bakery-on-a-roll-following-charity-investment/
- Published: 2019-03-19T08:25:02+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**A Liverpool community bakery, knowns for its Scouse and Shankly pies, has received
investment from a social impact business to meet a surge in demand for its award-
winning produce.**

 

Homebaked, a co-operative bakery and café in between Everton and Anfield, produces
3,000 pies, 300 sausage rolls, 250 loaves and 250 scones a week. It won 10 medals
in this year’s British Pie Awards.

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Its ‘Shankly’ pie is made with steak, bacon, mushroom and onion, and ‘Scouse’ pie
contains a beef stew. The ‘Blue’ pie is made with steak and cheese. The bakery supplies
Liverpool Football Club with 700 pies per game.

 

## Social enterprise funding

 

Faced with a growth in demand, Homebaked applied for £61,000 to [First Ark Social Investment](https://firstarksocialinvestment.com/)(
FASI), which provides a blend of grant and unsecured loan finance for charities 
and social organisations in the North West of England, and investments of between
£50,000 and £150,000.

 

The funding will be used to enable the bakery to:

 

 * become a larger wholesale producer
 * expand the increasingly-popular café
 * attend more markets
 * create new roles
 * offer more volunteer placements and training courses.

 

The investment for Homebaked is made up of a grant of £15,500 and a loan of £45,500.

 

It claims that for every £1 invested a social return of £20.37 will be generated.

 

 

 

> The results are in & we have won 10 medals at [#BritishPieAwards](https://twitter.com/hashtag/BritishPieAwards?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw).
> 1 Gold, 6 Silver & 3 Bronze. The team at our little community bakery in Anfield
> have smashed it & we won the 3rd highest number of medals out of 150 pie producers.
> [#morethanapie](https://twitter.com/hashtag/morethanapie?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
> [#communityisourbusiness](https://twitter.com/hashtag/communityisourbusiness?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
> [pic.twitter.com/weoDD9pCOz](https://t.co/weoDD9pCOz)
> — Homebaked Bakery (@HomebakedBakery) [March 9, 2019](https://twitter.com/HomebakedBakery/status/1104295708205699072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

 

 

 

## Mentoring

 

First Ark Social Investment also mentored Homebaked in drafting a business plan 
and helped write an application to access £14,000 from [The Reach Fund](https://www.reachfund.org.uk),
a national grant programme that helps charities and social enterprises raise investment.

 

Benefits of the investment:

 

•                 A healthy eating course for children will be created

 

•                 Space has been created to run regular community baking courses

 

•                 3 permanent part-time jobs, 20 volunteer placements and 10 work
placements for young people will be organised

 

•                 For every £1 invested a social return of £20.37 will be generated

 

Sally-Anne Watkiss, Treasurer of Homebaked, said:

 

“Investment has given us a chance to grow, employ more people, bake more produce
and more importantly re-invest in Anfield and its residents.

 

“The funding from First Ark Social Investment has made a huge difference because
we need to expand our premises to cope with demand. We’re now renting an industrial
space in Bootle which was previously a food business, so the right kit is already
installed. We’ve also been able to buy extra tables, shelves, a mixer, an oven, 
a fridge and freezer, as we want to scale-up production and extend our café to welcome
more customers.”

 

Leann Hearne, Group Chief Executive of First Ark Group, added:

 

“We supported this stand-out project, during the investment period, with guidance
when applying for investment from our funds and social value monitoring. Homebaked
is so much more than a bakery and a café, it’s an educational, social and training
hub and does everything from teaching the community about healthy eating, to backing
ongoing local community initiatives. This year it has also provided produce for ‘
Fans Supporting Foodbanks’, a unique partnership between the Everton Supporters’
Trust and the Spirit of Shankly, the Liverpool Supporters Union, to tackle the foodbank
shortages.”

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