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Kaila: Rising Hope was our very first tagline for the bakery. Rising Hope is a fabulous title, did you come to this straight away or were other titles considered? We had such a great team involved with editing and it was an exciting time bringing it all together. No matter what they had shared with me in our initial conversations, we gave them the opportunity to take out personal things they might later not want to share. Our contributors were involved all the way and they had to be really happy with the finished book. Kaila:We wanted it to be a community cookbook. We wanted to call the women, email them, meet them and spend a while hearing their stories to create and craft the recipes and stories with them. It wasn’t like one writer going on a retreat for a few months to finish a book. We have over 30 contributors to the book, so it took a while to develop. They have published a number of books about women’s issues, so they understood that as well as baking. We wrote a proposal which she took to a number of London publishers including HQ who seemed the best fit. We then met a literary agent called Charlotte Seymour, who we instantly clicked with and she bought the cookbook idea back up into our agenda. We had been approached by quite a few people to do a cookbook, but it never really felt like the right time, there were always other things that felt more important. When did you feel you wanted to create a recipe book? How long did it take to put together from concept, finding the right publisher and development to the finished product? Johnson and Rachel Stonehouse with Luminary Bakery Commercial Director Rachel Coulson and founder Alice Williams.

I joined Luminary Bakery in the Communications role officially in 2018, but I had been working in the background since the start. From that moment on, our lives intersected on a regular basis. I really wanted to help women who were experiencing something that was restricting them to feel empowerment. At the time I was helping an anti-trafficking charity, so my heart was already in that kind of sphere. Kaila: I met Alice through a mutual friend and she shared with me her dream of offering something to women who were experiencing extreme disadvantage. I interned with them for a year and basically stayed on. A friend of a friend introduced me to Alice who was founding Luminary as she was also wondering how baking could give opportunities to women and empower them. I am really passionate about women’s issues and combating domestic violence too and I couldn’t find anyway of bringing those quite specific niche interests together.

BAKERY STORY 2 RECIPES HOW TO

I love baking and I was trying to work out how to use it in a way that wasn’t just for profit. Rachel: I started in the very early days of the bakery in 2014. How did you both start working for Luminary Bakery? Our co-founder Mecca Ibrahim caught up with co-authors Rachel Stonehouse and Kaila H. A collection of over 70 delicious recipes each accompanied with heartwarming, joyful and inspiring story. Now the organisation has published its first cookery book – Rising Hope. Since 2014 Luminary Bakery has offered courses, work experience and paid employment within their cafes in London, empowering women to build their careers. Luminary Bakery is a social enterprise founded to support women experiencing disadvantage by teaching them how to bake.