Former Great British Bake Off contestant and Teafund ambassador Martha Collison, has helped to launch this year’s Tearfund Big Bake.
Collison enlisted the help of a number of junior bakers to help launch the event, after previously supporting Tearfund’s 2015 Big Bake by doing a 21-hour bakeathon, choosing 21 hours to experience the length of working day of a teenager trafficked to work in a factory in India.
The Big Bake will raise funds to help Tearfund protect children from trafficking, through its No Child Taken campaign, which works to help children vulnerable to trafficking, disease and disaster.
Preheat the oven for this year’s Big Bake (8-16 Oct), raising serious dough to beat hunger
https://t.co/UZbd0YDKNt http://pic.twitter.com/UDWo4G6iCT
— Tearfund (@Tearfund) August 13, 2016
Collison said:
“I see it as my way to express my Christian faith and help others at the same time. When I’m baking in Britain someone somewhere else, a long way away, will benefit. That makes me feel connected to them; it gives me a stake in their wellbeing even though we’ll probably never meet.”
The fundraising event takes place in October and encourages bakers of all ages to fundraise by baking cakes and selling them in the week running up to Anti-Slavery Day on 18th October. Tearfund is encouraging community groups including churches, schools and workplaces to sign up for this year’s Big Bake at http://ift.tt/2btJlQ9.
Last year’s Big Bake raised £70,000.
Picture credit: Louise Thomas/Tearfund. Five-year-olds Sade (left) and Aimee (right) anticipate sampling the cakes they are making with Martha Collison
17 total views, 17 views today
from UK Fundraising http://ift.tt/2bwamGT
0 comments:
Post a Comment