About Us

Bricks and Bread is a social enterprise that operates premises as hubs for sustainable business.

The company was created by Trudy Thompson to solve the issues she had to overcome when she was building eco homes and adapting her life to become more sustainable and self sufficient.

In 2009 Trudy opened the Centre in Aldershot to provide the facilities where local experts like her could share their knowledge and make it easier for other people to live, work and build sustainably.

Over the last three years the business has grown into a vibrant hub of more than 60,000 individuals who have joined our hub to benefit from our shared knowledge and resources. 

4,000 of these hub members are experts and enterprises who have been verified and trusted by us.  Bricks and Bread collaborates with these verified hub members to provide products and services to our customers.

Last year we created a social franchise model to replicate our systems and know-how, there are now over 300 franchisees using our innovative methods.