 Llewd's breadcub is an artisan bakery and workers co-op. A workers co-op is a democratic organisation owned by its workers. We're pretty much in charge of what we do here and have a say in what goes on. We make artisan slopemented breads, predominantly sourdows. We take a lot of time and a lot of care over the bread that we make and I think that shows. You can't really go back to the white slice bread after you've been eating this for a while. It's kind of a 24 hour business. Deliver a driver arrives about 4.30 and then they'll hit the road about 6 o'clock. Admin staff come in about 9.30. First baker will start at midday. That will go on through into the night. They'll finish up early hours in the morning and then it will start again. Well the person that I set the co-op with, Nick, pretty much the first time that I met him we started talking about setting something up. It was a no brainer as soon as we started this it was like it just has to be a co-op. Baking's really great work but all the other parts have been in the business that aren't baking. All those are more rewarding for this being a co-op. It's more of a sense of a community as opposed to a company. You're working hard but you're all working as hard as each other. So much in society we're bombarded with a competitive approach and it's about reimagining that and reworking it and doing things that kind of on the surface level perhaps don't look that different i.e. we're making and selling artisan breads which is what a lot of different bakeries across the country are doing but behind the scenes we're approaching things in quite a different way. Imagine having a boss. I mean that's an awful idea. I've come from kitchen work where it's very much part of the hierarchy and then I came here and all of a sudden I've got this wonderful unity and people that are genuinely concerned and working towards your wellbeing and I eat so much toast. We're nearly five years in now. We have a background with lots of people who are skilled in baking and we didn't have very many people who were skilled in running the business. We applied to the Hive to support us with some work with expansion planning and looking at our financial systems and trying to improve some of the financial management within the co-op. We are facing big choices at the moment about borrowing and investment in new equipment and this kind of thing so it was really really timely. It's really helping us move to a bit of a new phase for the business. The one thing that kind of blows me away sometimes when I think about it is that there was nothing there to start with. It was a chance encounter and it was a conversation and so many years later you have generated from absolutely nothing livelihoods for 16 people, a product that we're all proud of and that didn't exist in 2012. I never thought I'd own my own business let alone be involved in a co-op. It's eminently possible if you really aren't motivated. I just love a job. I love this place. I think it should be more co-operatives because I don't know anyone else that speaks as highly about their job as I do.