Two boxes with a selection of baked goods.
A Macmillan charity bake sale that raised £368.95 was held at Stoneleigh Baptist Church on the 5th of October.
The Church started a Tuesday morning café in September, and one of the ladies involved had done a Macmillan cake sale before at Stoneleigh library. However, due to the Covid pandemic, they couldn’t hold one there.
She asked the Church if she could use the café for a Macmillan cake sale and after agreeing they began the initial stage of planning.
They got teams of people from the ‘coffee morning café’ and came together, everyone joined in to make cakes for the Macmillan coffee morning; leaving them with a least a dozen people making cakes plus a few others who wanted to contribute too and about 20 people were involved from to serving to baking.
They advertised it as a ‘coffee morning and cake sale’ and this was all happening at the Stoneleigh Baptist Church.
Advertisement included: posters sent to doors and in the library, they put things up on Facebook on the two local pages (Stoneleigh Broadway group and Epsom and Ewell group), and on a WhatsApp group for the neighbourhood road.
“Social media was a big help because a lot of people who weren’t local found the post on Facebook and came on the day.”
Patricia; a volunteer said.
From nine in the morning until twelve-thirty in the afternoon, numerous people arrived, mostly consisting of elderly. They could have anything on the day including hot/cold drinks and cakes, there was also a quiz about coffee.
They were told that they could fill up a box with as many cakes as they wanted and give any amount of donation – everything was free of charge.
“It just depended on how much people wanted to give, and I found that a lot of people were far more generous that way.”
Amelia said.
They could donate by cash, card, or from a QR sticker that they got from the Macmillan package they signed up for, which also included a money pot.
Through cash and card they successfully raised £368.95.
‘It was a charity that they knew a lot of people knew about, a good organisation to support and they believed they raised so much because it was Macmillan.’
“It’s a charity that’s very dear to a lot of people. Even if we don’t know someone personally who needed their services, we all feel it’s a really good, worthwhile charity.”
Karl said.
A lot of advertisement came from word of mouth as the library volunteers also attended the Church. Furthermore, they also counted down to the big day via social media, this helped them remind everyone and kept them engaged.
They donated to the general cause: the research, the doctors, scientists, and patients. They were told to apply in advance and then let the organisation know how much they raised and how they did it.
Not a lot of cakes were leftover but they did make selection boxes and gave them out to people in the local area who wished to donate that weren’t able to make it on the day.
All the volunteers said they ‘definitely would do this again’, they have ‘planned for the Macmillan one to be held annually’ and would also ‘be quite happy fundraise for a different charity every 6 months’.
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