Owner and founder of Small Food Bakery in Nottingham, Kimberley Bell is driven to see communities at the heart of baking, and for communities to embrace baking with a whole farm ethos. Kim’s ongoing project, Shorten the Food Chain, is a socio-economic study and experiment looking at the impact a food manufacturing business has on its supply chain.

Having travelled internationally and been inspired by like minded collaborations such as the US Bread Lab run by Dr. Steven Jones, in 2017, Kim held the first UK Grain Lab Gathering in Nottingham. Now an annual event, Kim is personally motivated in seeing more people come together to share, learn and collaborate within the baking and grain communities.