{"id":4929,"date":"2021-01-23T17:50:31","date_gmt":"2021-01-23T16:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/milton-keynes\/?p=4929"},"modified":"2021-01-23T17:50:31","modified_gmt":"2021-01-23T16:50:31","slug":"baking-cakes-for-the-womens-refuge-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/milton-keynes\/2021\/01\/23\/baking-cakes-for-the-womens-refuge-families\/","title":{"rendered":"Baking cakes for the Womens Refuge families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the first lockdown, in 2020, our link officer with the Women\u2019s Refuge (MK Act) asked how they were coping and if they needed anything.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 And so, the grand cake making begun.\u00a0 Volunteers came forward and we were organised into two teams and a weekly rota was set up.\u00a0 Cakes were baked and delivered to our link officer one day.\u00a0 And the following day the Women\u2019s Refuge manager would pick them up and take them in the next day and distribute them to the families.<\/p>\n<p>After a couple of weeks, we asked were they enjoying the cakes and received a big thumbs up and please continue.\u00a0 And so we did and during that first lockdown we made over 1,500 cakes amongst our members and friends.<\/p>\n<p>Now the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> 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.\u00a0 And so, we have started up again.\u00a0 Some of our members have said, they are really enjoying baking again.\u00a0\u00a0 Here are pictures of some of our creations<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/milton-keynes\/projects-activities\/cakes-for-mk-act\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4675\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4675\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/milton-keynes\/files\/2020\/05\/Cakes-for-MK-Act-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Cup cakes for MK Act Womens Refuge\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/milton-keynes\/2021\/01\/23\/baking-cakes-for-the-womens-refuge-families\/junes-duck-cakes\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4930\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4930\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/milton-keynes\/files\/2021\/01\/Junes-duck-cakes-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/milton-keynes\/ginger-bread-cakes-for-mk-act\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4669\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/milton-keynes\/files\/2020\/05\/Ginger-bread-cakes-for-MK-Act-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Ginger bread cakes for MK Act Womens Refuge\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And one of or members husband also started up cooking shepherd\u2019s pies as a result of this pandemic and each week he drops them off down at the Winter night shelter.\u00a0 One of the residents said the shepherds pies were the best he had ever tasted.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/milton-keynes\/2021\/01\/23\/baking-cakes-for-the-womens-refuge-families\/shephards-pies\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4931\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4931\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/milton-keynes\/files\/2021\/01\/shephards-pies-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the first lockdown, in 2020, our link officer with the Women\u2019s Refuge (MK&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":638,"featured_media":4930,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84,85,18,82,25],"class_list":["post-4929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-baking-cakes","tag-covid-19-pandemic-projects","tag-helping-women-and-girls","tag-mk-act-womens-refuge","tag-winter-night-shelter"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Baking cakes for the Womens Refuge families | News | Blog | Events | SI Milton Keynes<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Milton Keynes : Blog &amp; News : Baking cakes for the Womens Refuge families : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Milton Keynes . 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