And another party!

Another party in Salisbury, lasting the whole day, did fantastically well.  This is the write up and photo, thank you Di and Nicki, Harrison's Great Auntie and Granny, Amah, spreading awareness and raising a brilliant amount too.  We all appreciate the enthusiasm and effort needed to make these parties a success!

"My sister Di, put on a cake time party last Saturday in her home near Salisbury. She had a coffee and cake in the morning and tea and cake in the afternoon. I took all my crafty bits down as well. We had a steady stream of people come through all day and while the total wasn't as big as some of the cake time parties, I think we did quite well. Di took over £150.00 and I took £147.00, so nearly £300.00. She had worked very hard to make it a good day and even had her laptop set up for people to see Alex and Donna's video at home telling them about Harrison which I thought was brilliant, so the people knew exactly what it was all about.  I did take a photo, but unfortunately it was only my stall, but I have still attached it for you. I didn't think to take photos of the cake time parties. It was a most enjoyable day."

From an autumnal Salisbury we are jetting off to the balmy warmth of Dubai where Harrison's Auntie Kate hosted an outdoor cake time party with the Dubai Netball League at the Emirates Sevens Stadium on the 7th November . (Please blow some of the warm air this way)

Auntie Kate is amazing, she has set herself the challenge of swimming around "The World" islands in Dubai to raise £20,000 for Harrison's Fund.  That is a swim of 25km, an ultra marathon which will take at least 10 hours to complete in jelly fish infested waters!  She is now ready, fully trained and fit to take on the challenge which will start at dawn on the 21st November, a week today!  Please read all about her challenge here . You can also see a map of her route here  If you use Twitter please follow her, @swimaroundworld, and give her lots of support before her epic and very scary challenge.  Don't forget, you can sponsor her here

More parties and photos tomorrow, don't forget it's not too late to have a party, nobody wants to be a party pooper!!

One day to Cake Time Party week!

More updates today and some reminders of where you can support Cake Time Party over the weekend but first a little moment in life from Alex and Harrison that touches our hearts and makes us all work harder at raising funds and hope more people will join us in our race to make time for this generation of Duchenne boys.

"Last night Harrison asked me, 'Daddy, why do we need Harrison's Fund, I don't understand?'
...Cue palpitations and mild panic...

'Well, you know how you take medicine for your poorly muscles?

.... 'Yeah daddy...'

'Harrison's Fund is there to raise money to try and help make your muscles better and all the other children like you'

'...Oh, okay then'

'You know you can ask me any questions you want, any time?'

'...Yeh, that's cool Daddy'

Convo ends and life goes on, but it won't be too long till the questions get harder. Stay little please H!"

 

We'd love to see you

 

In Cobham, Surrey, Village Hall 3rd Nov, 10.30-12.30 Cakes, Crafts & lots of childrens' activities.

10 -12 am 2nd November John Hampden Primary School, Thame, Oxon
Organiser: Liz Smailes

10.30 - 1pm 3rd November Holy Trinity Church Hall, Claygate, Surrey
Organiser: Sherry Secker  Also Cakes, Crafts & childrens' activities.


Our Cake Time Party is spreading right round the world.  A party in Melborne Australia has raised £360 pounds and their spread of cakes looks exciting, some recipes we wouldn't mind sharing! Love the purple hearts!

 

 

Katie from South London who we talked about in an earlier post has raised £200 and baked over 300 cupcakes, with friends Louise and Lucy adding another 80 cupcakes!  That must have kept school going rather well, we all love a little treat to keep us going, don't we?  Thank you Katie, Louise and Lucy for making time for cake time.  A big Harrison smile coming your way!

 

 

 

We have lot of Cake Time Parties happening all across the country from Scotland to Devon, Suffolk to Dorset, Leicestershire to London, we are so chuffed that we are covering the country in cake to be enjoyed together while helping to make time for all the Duchenne boys...Thank you ;-)

 

 

 

Thame & Claygate... This is your chance to get involved

So who's missing the Great British Bake Off already? Have you been inspired to do some baking? Why not join 'Harrison's Cake Time Party' from the 1st-8th November?

We have a great fundraiser's pack full of useful resources and fun ideas available. From posters and invites to cake stencils and recipes we've got it covered. Whatever you need to hold a Cake Time Party at home or work or for a Cake Sale in a hall we've got everything you need apart from the cake!

If you would like a pack please send us an email via www.harrisonsfund.org, tweet us on Twitter, @harrisonsfund or @jennijjs, and we'll email one out to you.

If you don't have time to host your own Cake Time Party, and haven't been able to persuade a friend to do so for you then we'd like to tell you about two great Cake Time Parties because I know that if you live locally you are just going to want to get involved, if you'd like to bake a cake that would be fabulous, otherwise you can go along and enjoy buying and eating cake, and don't forget that there will be lots of activities for children too.

So here's the details:

10 -12 am 2nd November             John Hampden Primary School, Thame, Oxon
Organiser: Liz Smailes

10.30 - 1pm 3rd November          Holy Trinity Church Hall, Claygate, Surrey
Organiser: Sherry Secker

Hot chocolate on a stick - divine decadence..

If you were thinking of having a cake sale party and wanted something else as well as cakes to sell then look no further.  The lovely Holly Bell @HollyBellMummy, one of the darlings and runner up of the Series 2 Great British Bake Off donated this lovely recipe to Harrison's Fund for their charity Cake Time Recipe Book. You can purchase your copy here. We are offering this recipe to you on our Recipe page as a fantastic, but simple way to add a little extra to your Cake Time Party offering.  I think the only drawback with these is the amount of will power you need to not pop them straight into hot milk!

Katie's cupcakes sales a hit at school...

Earlier in the summer we ran a big awareness campaign supported by the launch of a video featuring Harrison and his family discussing the impact of Harrison's Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy diagnosis.  Since that time we have had so many contacts, donations, and offers to take on a challenge to fundraise for Harrison's Fund that it has really touched everyone close to Harrison and his family.

Yesterday we heard about Katie who has been making cupcakes - and we mean lots of cupcakes! She is selling them at her school to raise money for Harrison's Fund.  Katie is a gorgeous 15 year old from London who attends the Sacred Heart School in Hammersmith.  Katie watched the Harrison's Fund awareness video with her dad Michael and decided she wanted to do something to help. 



Katie loves baking cakes, her speciality is a lovely chocolate one that her Dad is rather partial to, and she is now quite an experienced baker, and decided that this was the way to raise money.  She's teamed up with her friend Louise who also loves to bake and they've raised over £40 on their first day with more days to come.

Here's the 70 cupcakes on their way into school today, don't they look delicious!

From everyone at Harrison's Fund and especially Harrison who always send a big smile to a pretty lady, a big thank you to Katie and her Dad for making time to watch the video together.

If you would like to help Harrison's Fund and join the Cake Time Party, we now have a great support pack complete with invitations, cut out bunting, recipes and lots more that we can email to you. Just send an email to Cake Time and we'll do the rest, and as Mel and Sue say, 1,2,3 let's bake!

Make Time for Cake Time...

Great British Bake Off Darlings support Cake Time Party

It's Tuesday or more precisely it's Great British Bake Off Tuesday, WooHoo!

We're planning to make some Soda Bread using Old Blue Eye's perfect recipe, never fails and then we're going to make some three fruits marmalade, grapefruit, orange, lemon to sell at the weekend at my local producers market, followed by Millionaire's Shortbread which We've never made before but want to try to see if it might also be on the list of bakes for the market.  We will have to try the shortbread so that could just possibly be when we settle down to watch the semis this evening, you've got to have a little something to watch, haven't you, and it is for a good cause, isn't it?

So while We're thinking about my baking we want to also thank Cathryn Dresser and Sarah-Jane Willis, everyones darlings and the great british public's star bakers from this series of Great British Bake Off for supporting Harrison's Cake Time Party with a fabulous recipe for Rhubarb Upside Down Cake, which we think may well be next on our baking list!  Lovely to have fruit in cake, makes it so easy to be sure they are virtuous, healthy and calorie free as they must be part of your five a day, don't you agree?

So do have a look at their recipe here and don't forget to let us know about your party so that we can add it to the news and we can cover the country in cake.

Make Time for Cake Time....

Holding a Harrison's Cake Time Party at work

I thought that you might be interested to see this great idea for running a Cake Time Party in the workplace. One of our lovely fundraisers, Anna, came up with this idea to hold in her team, SITSS, which is part of Children's Services, Herts CC. 

1. Set a convenient date for your Harrison's Cake Time Party.
2. Send out an invitation email to everyone asking for them to take part in a Cake Time Challenge by baking and bringing to work a cake on the Cake Time Party day. Ask for confirmation back of those willing to bake a cake so you know how many cakes you have on the party day, they can of course make more than one! Make a small charge, perhaps £1, for entering the challenge.
3. Include in the email that if they cannot/don't want to make a cake, not to worry as all the cakes entered will be sold on the day and so they can make their donation by buying a slice or more of the cakes.
4. Do tell everyone why you are raising money for Harrison's Fund, take a look at www.harrisonsfund.org for more information about the charity.
5. Send me an email to let me know you are holding a party and I'll send you the fundraisers pack to download.
6. Put up posters to remind everyone about your Cake Time Party.
7. Maybe persuade the bosses to donate a couple of small prizes for the winner and runner up of the challenge.
8. On the day set up a table for all the bakes, with plates, napkins etc, and enjoy!

Make Time for Cake Time

Coffee Morning Cake Ideas for your Cake Time Party

I sometimes think it is harder to decide what to bake for a coffee morning than it is for a tea party. Of course cake is perfect but maybe creamy or rich ones, a bit early in the day, do you think?  Haha I can hear you all saying how can it be too early?  Okay, well I covered those in a previous post :-)   So, for those of you wanting some different ideas here are a few that are may be less trouble than jam doughnuts or chocolate tea cakes, I am presuming that you watch Great British Bake Off, and have seen the trials and tribulations of making both of those delicacies?  Didn't you just want to take a bite out of those jam doughnuts and didn't you just feel for the lovely Cat Dresser when her tea cakes went wrong? Oh My Giddy Aunt!

Ideas:

Coffee & Walnut Cake - lovely recipe from John Thwaite on the recipe page here

Portuguese Custard Tarts - These are absolutely delicious and not difficult to make, recipe also on the recipe page of the blog.

Millionaires Shortbread - as decadent as you like!

Brownies - recipe on the recipe page here and in the Cake Time Recipe Book which can be purchased here

Apple Cake - this is the perfect time of year to be using apples and is just as good with wind fall apples if you have any.

Cookies - Chocolate Chip, Oat and Raisin, Peanut Butter!

Do you need a fundraiser's pack for your Cake Time Party?

We now have a great fundraiser's pack full of useful resources and fun ideas available.  From posters and invites to cake stencils and recipes we've got it covered, whatever you need to hold a Cake Time Party at home or work or for a Cake Sale in a hall we've got everything you need apart from the cake!

Please send me an email via www.harrisonsfund.org, leave a comment on this blog, tweet me on Twitter, @jennijjs, I'm here and can email you a pack in a flash!

Make Time for Cake Time.....