While people have been running bake sales for a long time, it seems that the idea of whipping up and selling homemade baked goods for a good cause is all the rage.
Schools in the UK held bake sales to raise money for Haiti, and now both UK charities Shelter and Bliss are asking for the good folks in the United Kingdom run week long bake sales and sell their own cakes to help raise money for both of their causes.
Apparently the popularity of the cupcake is finally doing some good in the world!
Cake a Difference
Bliss’s “Cake a Difference” week, which is running from today, 8 February 2010, to the 12th. Bliss say that you can sell your cakes at work all week long, or even for just one morning. You can sign up on their website, and once they have your details you can download a information pack, as well as posters for you to print out that can help promote your bake sale.
“Every penny” of the proceeds will go to Bliss, which is a special care baby charity, that provides vital support and care to premature and sick babies across the UK.
Cake Time
Shelter is a housing and homelessness charity, and their nation-wide bake sale will be running from the 13th through the 19th of March. Cake Time has a number of delicious celebrity recipes to choose from just in case you’re not a big baker with a catalogue of recipes to choose from. (Alternatively, if you are, you can always upload your recipe for others to use!)
If you sign up to Cake Time, you’ll be sent a free starter pack, and like Cake a Difference, you can also download posters, etc, on their website.
Cake Time’s angle is that they want you to have a fun gathering with friends and family or co-workers, and to ask them for a donation (at least £2) after they’ve “eaten their fill”.
You can always donate to both Biss and Shelter without having to whip up a fresh batch of cupcakes or biscuits, but having a bake sale and a donation cake party sounds a bit more fun, does’t it?