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withBread.ventures is an incubator for new enterprises and can be joined at the start of each semester by new participants who fulfil the necessary criteria. 

 

withBread.ventures is an online programme for anyone who wants to create a new business or who has already started a venture and wants to accelerate their creative journey, be intentional, kingdom minded and inspired. Part of a collaborative, dynamic fellowship of likeminded people. Ventures can be big, small, online or in person and related to any realm of society (not just bread related!)

 

We are living in truly remarkable days of opportunity and hope, and it is my strong conviction that there is going to an anointing upon our small of band of entrepreneurs to create beautiful and success filled enterprises. 

 

For more information please use the form below.

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Next Semester starts on 1 September 2025.

 

 

Goals of withBread.ventures 

 

•    Encouragement and hope to succeed:

Your unique “Artisanal Bread” (i.e. your product) would be increasingly sought by many recurring consumers and that your growing ecosystem would taste & see the goodness of our Lord. 

 

We would become a family of completing businesses, breaking bread together, becoming a bakery of different products and services, all enjoying and benefiting from one another, such that the Bread of Heaven is enjoyed throughout the world.

 

•    Identifying your heart’s mission:

This is like the ancient “starter” or leavening agent that God has placed in your DNA which needs to be carefully nurtured and mixed into your product. This is the seed that will cause your endeavour to rise to the challenge of your assignment.

 

•    Locating, measuring and adding God’s best ingredients to your “dough mix” 

Business acumen, heavenly intelligence, a winning team, passion, your unique and growing skills. Provenance is key.

 

•    Mixing & kneading your vision

Teaching, discipling, sparing, community, coaching and opportunities for counselling-purifying the mix.

 

•    Punching Down and Turning Dough

Iron sharpens iron. Agility, adaptation willingness to pivot, understanding your market’s needs. Hard work. Proving the concept. Understanding the “kairos” timing.

 

•    Shaping the Dough

Building a minimal viable product. Market and Kingdom intelligence is key.

 

•    The Rise

Trusting that the above process brings about glorious results. Catching the rising winds of Holy Spirit. Pressing into God, His presence, word and empowerment. It has all been paid for through the cross and resurrection of Jesus!

 

•    Baking

Bring heat to your product and service. Will it stand the test of fire? Will it rise to the challenge? Piloting, testing, appraisal and pitching.

 

•    Selling your bread. 

From the beginning we will be very mindful of this, but now we go to market and we sell each other’s bread! Identify which supply channels we need our bread to find.

 

•    Make “loads of dough”

Automation of your “bakery line” so that you can make recurring revenue. How to deliver “artisanal” quality in larger batches.

 

•    Ongoing fellowship of businesses 

A Presence filled ecosystem seeking the Kingdom together with participants going from glory to glory with businesses growing and prospering. Being ‘church’ within your business.

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The Programme

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1.    withBread.ventures weekly

 

The main building block of this journey, will be our weekly community call which will be 2 hours max. The idea is that participants will attend these sessions week in week out (with very occasional absences). All for one and one for all.

 

These will be inspiring times and will normally have an element of worship, prayer and continual opportunities to hear from Holy Spirit about what we are building. They will include teaching moments, group times, one-on-one times. Norman Day will be the main host of these sessions. These sessions will be like a ‘plumb line’ helping us to stay on course, and a place of accountability, and encouragement as we bake (and break) bread together! 

 

On a practical note, given that we are sharing freely with one another, all participants will enter into a simple confidentiality and non-disclosure agreement.

 

 

2.    Master Class

 

Each month we will have a master class which will give your incredible insight from experts in different areas. Helping you gain vital knowledge and allowing others to impart to you some of the keys to their success. We will also have pioneers showcasing how they have mixed God and business. 

 

Janne Huttunen (Nordhealth founder and Chief Innovation Officer, Janne Huttunen, (2022 Finnish Software Entrepreneur of the Year)) will be starting off the Master Classes series and taking us a product development journey. In April the Master Class subject is ‘Recurring Revenue 101.’ 

 

3.    Coaching Session with Norman

 

Each month Norman will give a one hour one-on-one session for each participant helping them navigate this individual journey. Should further sessions be desired, this can be possible at a cost.

 

4.    Business Chaplaincy 

 

Our resident Business Chaplain is Sarah Day. Advocating us towards the culture of the kingdom, in thought, faith, motive and action. Empowering each in their God given promises and purposes and challenging towards the mandate of heaven. As Chaplain her role is to walk alongside participants championing healthy inward growth and fruitfulness that infuses the outward actions of all we are. 

 

Each term, participants will have a mandatory 1 hour check-in session with Sarah (first hour at no cost, however we encourage participants to consider further sessions whether counseling or coaching/mentoring, as needed). See www.wildret.org for more information on Sarah’s professional services.

 

Many of the obstacle to success do not lie outside of us but are the limiting beliefs we carry, effecting our belief expectation cycles. Often breakthrough at this heart level will usher us into breakthrough in the physical.

 

5.    The Oil Store Gathering

 

Above all else, we are a people who know and welcome the presence of God in all that we do. As part of this journey, it is compulsory to join our monthly Oil Store Gathering (subject to reasonable absences). This is a place for us to belong as we journey together into the deeper riches of Jesus, and all we have the privilege to possessing through intimacy with God. 

 

This is a place where we receive oil for our lamps, oil for our businesses so we can keep on burning! In these prophetic times together, we will draw to the altar where we are invited by Jesus to know the delight of the Father and we come with one desire to know him & make him known. Through the privilege of his presence, we come alive.  We worship connect & allow our lives to be soaked in the presence of our King & His Kingdom. We will feast at his table of revelation and life, drawing near to him.

 

 Come with an open heart to gather with a community of others who love him & want to "buy" oil.

 

This is the powerhouse, the place to connect with your main shareholder, your chairman, your main investor – Almighty God. Seek first the Kingdom AND ALL THESE TIHNGS SHALL BE ADDED.

 

 

At the end of each semester, each participant will pitch their venture to the group and also, when ready, to a wider audience. At the end of each semester, following pitches, there may be opportunity to receive financial seed investment.

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Why the name withBread?

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The word company derives from latin Cum Panis which means "with bread". Merchants would meet and discuss their business plans over dinner ("with bread") and eventually their ventures were named for the dinner meetings. An 1872 book on grammar lists two words in its glossary that come from "cum panis":

 

companion: a sharer of food, a comrade, fellow-traveller, partner

company: association, a number of partners

 

The word "corporation" derives from corpus, the Latin word for body, or a "body of people." 

 

Companies are all about the people in them. Despite, the law separating the legal personality of the company from its people, in reality they should not be separate entities.  Dreams, ideas and innovations are formed together when people sit down together and  share bread. Their collective vision and adventure becomes the company. The people literally form the company, they are the company. All too often the company becomes something different to what the initial vision bearers carried. People begin to serve the company rather than their dream, innovation or heart.

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