Daisy Terry (far left) and her colleagues at The Dusty Knuckle have gone from three people operating out of a shipping container to a team of 125 working across four outlets in London


Terry is thrilled with the results. “Tat new


loader means we can have the doors closed while we’re loading a different lane in, with minimal loss of heat,” she says. “We make sourdough and we make it quite dark, so the heat in the oven is really important to us.”


Let them eat bread In just 10 years, Te Dusty Knuckle has grown from a three-person team operating out of a shipping container to a staff of 125 spread across four London locations. Tese include permanent sites in Dalston and Haringey, a van in Highbury Fields, and a milk float service launched during the pandemic. “When Covid hit, nobody came. We had


to work out how to get bread to the people,” says Terry. Tat spirit of social responsibility has remained core to the business. Te Dusty Knuckle’s youth program, for example, offers young people who feel shut out of the job market a chance to build their self-esteem and confidence. “Tey get to experience legitimate work in a way that feels positive, supportive and inclusive,” says Terry. “Te majority are from custody, but we also


get people from care and people who might be in precarious situations and feel like their life isn’t going quite the way they want it to. Some come via various third-party charities, but we also get self-referrals.” After completing their time in the program,


some stay at the Dusty Knuckle, although Terry points out that equipping people with more general experience is the real goal. Several have gone on to work at Ottolenghi, or at Bubala restaurant in neighbouring Whitechapel, London. “People pick up a lot of transferable skills


here,” she says. “Communication between teams, for example, is really important. Some people do a placement in the kitchen or front of house – we have a restaurant – and it’s a good place to learn if you haven’t worked in that sort of environment before," says Terry, “In the bakery, work is physical, repetitive


and rewarding. Tere’s a mathematical element too,” she adds. “Hopefully they come away feeling that


maybe the working world doesn’t have to be full of difficult people,” laughs Terry. ■


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