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Only Scrans finds more than pastry at HM Pasties

Lee Wakeham's Oldham bakery supplies football clubs while helping prison leavers build working lives.

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0:27Lee Wakeham recounts his childhood in care, imprisonment and the counselling that helped him change direction.
3:42HM Pasties began with a pasty van before expanding into a bakery business.
5:43Wakeham explains how football-club orders helped increase production and discusses the bakery's British Pie Awards.
7:33The tasting begins with steak, meat and potato, jerk chicken, and steak and ale pies.
9:34Wakeham counts employees moving on to good jobs as a measure of success.
11:23The tasting continues with vegetarian pies, chicken balti, a Cornish pasty and a sausage roll.

Lee Wakeham measures success partly by who moves on. "For me, it's when someone leaves us and goes on to a great job," the HM Pasties founder tells Only Scrans in the channel's only new upload of the week.

The visit combines a substantial pastry tasting with the story of a business built around employment for ex-offenders. Wakeham describes a difficult childhood in care, imprisonment and the counselling that helped him change direction. His bakery began with a pasty van; football-club orders later helped give it the volume to expand.

There is practical detail behind that journey, too: batch tracking, local ingredients and a discussion of readiness for stable employment. Then the host works through steak, meat and potato, jerk chicken and steak and ale pies, returning later for aloo saag, chicken balti, a Cornish pasty and a flaky sausage roll. Food remains central, without pushing the people making it into the background.

The episode has reached about 58,000 views and is currently the channel's busiest upload. September's "Why Halal BBQ Is Taking Over The UK" remains close behind in daily viewing, with its visit to Birmingham's Joey's Smokehouse and custom "Brummie Beast" smoker. The Scottish breakfast Short is also continuing to attract viewers.

Only Scrans added roughly 1,000 subscribers across the week. Its weekly viewing was substantial among nearby food channels, though Noah Stern and Selah Joy drew larger audiences; Proof Bread had a quieter week. For Only Scrans, the new contribution was a bakery portrait in which a good job after leaving the business matters as much as the food coming out of it.

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