Calling all local Restaurants, Cafes, Chefs and Bakeries, Autism East Midlands need your recipes to help launch the Great Autism Bake Off.
The local charity will be launching the event on 14th September, when they intend to engage with the nation’s love of baking, encouraging supporters to hold bake sales and baking activities to help raise much-needed funds.
Anyone interested in signing up for the Great Autism Bake will receive a special free fund-raising pack full of hints, tips and recipe ideas to help them get started, and this is where they need your help.
Autism East Midlands need you to donate your favourite baking recipe to be featured within the pack; which would promote both yourself or your business and support the charity at the same time. If you want to help by donating a recipe then you just need to submit it by 25th August by email to: Charlotte.Pell@autismeastmidlands.org.uk. You can attach a photo of the bake, yourself, your restaurant or maybe even your staff or logo, whatever you would like to include to accompany your scrummy recipe.
The fundraising pack will be available following the official launch date on 14th September by signing up through the charity’s website and submitting an email address for the pack to be sent to. After this the bake sales can be held at any time up until late November so you could get involved even further with your own charity event if you want to, or just play at being Mary Berry or Paul Hollywood and enjoy a slice of somebody else’s hard work whilst choosing your own star baker. The grand total raised is to be announced in early December.
Autism is a complex, life-long disability which affects the development of communication, social and life skills. The extent of the autistic spectrum is wide-ranging, varying from profound severity in some to subtle problems of understanding in others. Autism East Midlands is a leading specialist autism charity who aim to ensure people with autism can live their lives with dignity, choice and independence as well as providing help and support to families and individuals and have been providing services for children, young people, families and adults affected by autism across Nottingham for over 45 years.
Trained and passionate staff offer a wide range of services designed to support people affected by autism and their families. Other services include a specialist day school plus play and leisure activities for children and young people with autism, outreach and supported living services, adult residential homes, training and much more as well as operating one of the very few autism-specific diagnostic and assessment centres in the country.
For further information on the charity visit: www.autismeastmidlands.org.uk
By Tanya Louise Raybould
Food Editor
@foodnottingham
@tanyalouiseray
