Back in the first lockdown, in 2020, our link officer with the Women’s Refuge (MK Act) asked how they were coping and if they needed anything. The manager there said the women and children were finding it hard to cope with the restrictions, so we asked how we could help and were told cakes would be lovely to boost both the families and staff morale. And so, the grand cake making begun. Volunteers came forward and we were organised into two teams and a weekly rota was set up. Cakes were baked and delivered to our link officer one day. And the following day the Women’s Refuge manager would pick them up and take them in the next day and distribute them to the families.
After a couple of weeks, we asked were they enjoying the cakes and received a big thumbs up and please continue. And so we did and during that first lockdown we made over 1,500 cakes amongst our members and friends.
Now the 3rd lockdown is upon us and checking with our linked charities to see if there was anything they needed, MK Act asked again could we make cakes to provide a little bit of joy to the lives of their families. And so, we have started up again. Some of our members have said, they are really enjoying baking again. Here are pictures of some of our creations
And one of or members husband also started up cooking shepherd’s pies as a result of this pandemic and each week he drops them off down at the Winter night shelter. One of the residents said the shepherds pies were the best he had ever tasted.
