A NEW community bakery is set to open in Rhyl, giving people the chance to learn all sorts of skills.

“Use Your Loaf” bakery will be based on Abbey Street, and has been in the works for several years, having initially been the idea of the project leader of the Foryd Community Centre, Fiona Davies.

It will be open from Monday to Friday, offering different types of classes on each day, as well as a “community day” each Friday.

The bakery will celebrate its grand opening on Monday, March 7, where Denbighshire County Council chair, Councillor Alan James, and Cllr Joan Butterfield (both Rhyl West ward) will both be present.

Alex Bowen, project manager, said: “We’re going to be offering people the chance to learn how to make artisan, home-made breads and loaves, and earn qualifications such as food safety, customer service and allergen awareness.

“They’ll be flexible 12-day courses, so people can come in whenever suits them. It’ll be open to pretty much anyone over 16, and it’ll be healthier and a lot cheaper than buying bread!

“Friday will be a community day, where people don’t have to sign up to a course; they can just pop along, and we’ll have a different theme each week, like soda bread on St Patrick’s Day (March 17), and pizza bread on April 1.

“Cllrs James and Butterfield are coming to open it at 10am (on March 7), and we’ve been busy baking lots of pizzas and bread rolls to give people tasters.

“We’ve got lots of different organisations who are interested in coming down and learning about it on Monday, from 10am-2pm.

“It will be Monday to Friday that we’re open, and the courses will be on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday with the community day on Friday.

“Every day will be a different type of bread, and we’ve got capacity for four trainees on any one day. All courses will be free, and if they come and make a loaf, they can take it home with them as well.”