Bake Sale fun!

I recently organised a Bake Sale at one of the places I work. I thought it would add a welcome distraction for a Friday and I was proved very right!

The voluntary group I am involved with, Helping Hands and Hearts Foundation (HHH), has been on the lookout for a new project to get involved with and we have been successful in finding something very worthwhile.

HHH will start a new project, to raise funds to enable the British Advanced Life Support Group (ASLG), (http://www.alsg.org/uk/) to come to Bosnia to teach a Pre-hospital Obstetric Emergency Training course (POET) to the Sarajevo Emergency Unit. ASLG is already involved in training doctors in Sarajevo, Advanced Pediatric Life Support (APLS) and Managing Obstetric Emergency and Trauma (MOET) .The doctors who receive training in POET will the following year be supervised by ASLG when they in turn teach the course to other doctors in Bosnia.

The money raised at various fundraising events over the next 6 months by HHH will enable the hospital to purchase the necessary equipment and mannequins in order to undertake this training.

The office Bake Sale was the first event to kick start the fundraising.

I baked some Bespoke British Baking vanilla cupcakes and I trialed Tana Ramsey's Lemon Drizzle cake, which I have to say was easy and delicious! By popular demand Liz made her chocolate brownies which literally sold like hot cakes. Also, under a bit of duress from me, my partner whipped up some triple choc cornflake crisps - these included an awful lot of chocolate, several mars bars and dash of golden syrup and were topped with white chocolate! They were delicious and again were very popular, so much so that he didn’t even get to try one!

Thanks to all those who contributed with cakes and the generosity of those who bought them, we raised an impressive 170KM! This is fantastic and gets us well off the mark with our fundraising efforts!

I am now going to try to undertake a similar effort at the other office I work in and try to encourage some other friends to do the same in their offices, what this space for a Bake Sale near you, soon!