In 1995 Pam Baker, a member of Barnabas Community Church Shrewsbury, visited Ukraine on a church mission trip. Whilst in Makeevka, eastern Ukraine, she struck up a friendship with leaders and members of Rhema church who had recently committed themselves to help the poorest members of their community by starting a feeding programme. 

 Barnabas Community Church started to help Rhema church with their feeding programme. Then in 1997 BREADtrust was launched as a new charity to develop this work across Eastern Europe and elsewhere across the world, through strategic partnerships with local churches to deliver feeding programmes and other forms of humanitarian aid.