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...

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

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.....

Cake Time Party in the News!

The Surrey Advertiser, a great supporter of Harrison's Fund, have featured a picture of Harrison with his brother William about to devour chocolate cake, along with a great article on the upcoming Cake Time Party.

Today was the time to support the Macmillan Coffee Morning, a fantastic event raising much needed funds to help people affected by cancer.  We wish everyone involved every success.  

We hope that having been inspired by the fun of meeting up with friends, family, colleagues to share a drink, cake and a natter that they'll be ready in 5 weeks time to get together again and really get the cakes out to celebrate the first Harrison's Cake Time Party!

And if you were unable to be involved today, then there is even more reason to get involved with the Harrison's Cake Time Party as cake is very definitely the hero of the show!

Surrey Advertiser supports Harrison's Cake Time Party