e5 bakehouse
We moved into our own arch in the summer of 2011 and expanded over the years,
tunnelling left and then right into adjacent arches, adding a pastry department,
flour mill, chocolate facility, and a deli shop to the mix. As an extension of
the Just Bread refugee training programme we ran in collaboration with the
Refugee Council, we opened Poplar Bakehouse in 2017 in Tower Hamlets. The main
aim of this cafe and coffee roastery, which is now also a shop and bakery, was
to employ and train people from refugee communities whilst investing profits
back into projects which support and welcome refugees arriving in the UK.