The Farm Bakery
A Family Business

About

“From 75 year old recipes passed down through the family or a new recipe made up on the spot… nothing makes me happier when customers come back again and again to say how nice it is.”

“Family business, it’s not just about blood, it’s the staff and customers that make it an even
bigger family business.”

Colyn Pentleton
The Farm Bakery

How We Started

The journey begins
The journey begins

Colyn discovers a love of baking

At 17 Colyn was asked to help out at his aunt's and uncle's bakery in Amble during the summer season. By September that year Colyn was enrolling into Northumbria Bakery College. He worked various shifts in the bakery and attended college on his day off to study Bakery and Confectionery for four years.

1992
1992

Starting a family

In 1992 Colyn married Christine (the Saturday girl), and spent a further six years working at the bakery in Amble, before progressing to a Shift Manager's role at an extremely popular local bakery. After a year Colyn was offered a Bakery Manager's position at a supermarket in his hometown, which coincided with the birth of his daughter, Jasmine.

1997
1997

Opening the bakery

Five years passed, and with the addition of a son (Jamie), Colyn was eager to begin a new chapter in his life and opened his own bakery at Lee Moor Farm, Rennington with the intention of creating a quality product. The bakery was just what people needed and overnight gained a vast customer portfolio delivering to numerous outlets including sandwich shops, and
local businesses. During this time he rapidly expanded his team from one baker to ten and within a short period of time he was supplying over fifty local customers. It became apparent that the bakery needed it's own outlet and it began producing products to sell from the local markets in Amble and Alnwick as well as a few others.

2009
2009

The first shop

By 2009 Amble Market was a huge success and very much a family venture. But the hot and cold days became equally testing and it was decided that a shop was needed resulting in the very first Farm Bakery on Amble High Street. This became Christine’s undertaking as Colyn progressed. He expanded into confectionery and began producing wonderful, bespoke
celebration cakes.
2017
2017

The second shop

It soon became apparent there was a high demand for cakes with a personal touch, and Colyn needed bigger premises to enable productivity. In 2017 the second Farm Bakery shop opened in Alnwick, named The Farm Cakery. This was a play on words as it was intended to sell only cakes. But it was a substantially bigger shop so it was decided to make it a “whole bakery experience” and sell breads, rolls, pastries, morning goods, savouries, sandwiches and not forgetting the all-important cakes and confectionery.

Today
Today

The next generation

Now we are into the next chapter. Jasmine is Manager and has her hands in literally everything, from making something new and different every week to promoting on various platforms including social media. She has helped the bakery achieve recognition via awards won in 2019 for Retail Bakery of the Year in Northumberland and in the North East. We are constantly trying to keep ahead of the game by proactively making and baking. This ensures we will continue to be successful for generations to come.

Customer Testimonials

We have used The Farm Bakery for years and highly recommend their products. In that time we have had several buffets, finding both the range and quality first class. The cakes we have had have been stunning! Tell them your idea and see what they create, you will not be disappointed. Nothing is too much trouble for Colyn, Christine or Jasmine, their customer service, attention to detail and overall quality of the products they sell is why I will not go anywhere else.
Sandra ElratoNHS
Here at Penny Petroleum we have been supplied with great products by The Farm Bakery through good times and bad (landslides and 3ft of snow!) for almost 20 years, the customers love having fresh bread and buns availability in our well stocked garage and shop...
Paul Frater Penny Petroleum
The Farm Bakery has supplied us with all of our bakery products for the last 3 years now and their famous ''stotties'' have helped us to become the leading cafe in Northumberland. Their reliability and personal service is first class and we are very grateful for all the business support they have given us over the years. Our focus is on using local produce and suppliers and so we would not go anywhere else for our bakery!
Andrew Byne Rocking Horse Courtyard and Cafe
The Farm Bakery has supplied Turnbulls The Butchers for almost 20 years, and we are now pleased to have their great products available in our new Food Store, Fantastic Service, thank you guys...
Mark Turnbull Turnbulls The Butchers Northumbrian Food Hall
‘The Farm Bakery have been a great, reliable supplier to our shop, not least over the challenging time of lockdown earlier this year. They are always helpful and cheerful if we ever have any last minute problems, and it has been a bonus being able to support another local business.’
Shi Shi and Ally Chatton Village Store
The Horseshoes have been using The Farm Bakery Buns for years, at the end of the day a burger is as only good as the bun it's served on, so don't use frozen, use fresh bespoke buns made by these guys.
Mark & Louise The Horseshoes Rennington
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In the News

Cake maker Colyn rises to the baking challenge
By Ian Smith

Northumberland cake maker Colyn Pentleton loves the challenge of creating something a little bit different.
Northumberland Gazette
September 2020 See Article
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A simple marketing ploy any a north Northumberland business went viral online
Northumberland Gazette
Need Date See Article
Walker's World
By Charlotte Sinclair
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The Bowes Museum
Tom Walker,
Dreamscapes Exhibition
Cakes for the 'Self Portrait' provided by Colyn
British Vogue
June 2008
The Bowes Museum
May 2013 See Article
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