Legacy
Legacy
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I’ve been going to the Kentish Town Social Club for over a year and the idea of fundraising for NLC has been at the back of my mind for quite some time. I was always postponing the idea, thinking that I don’t have the time and wouldn’t really be able to raise too much money anyway. Then one day in January, I got a phone call from Laura, who told me that one of the most amazing members from the Kentish Town Social Club, May, passed away. It was at that point that I realized how much NLC means to me, and that I really wanted to do something more for it.
Holding a bake sale at my university was an obvious choice - if there is one thing that always gets student’s attention, it’s food. I had no idea what holding a bake sale encompassed beyond the fact that I would need to bake. Luckily, Emily, NLC’s Income Development Coordinator, helped me out so much along the way. Everything was much easier to organize than I thought. All I had to do was book a venue on campus (I chose the busiest hallway I could think of), fill in (too many) forms, and find people, who would bake for the bake sale and then also help with the selling. A few days before the bake sale, I put up posters around campus and for once I actually used my Facebook account to promote the event.
I have to say that before the bake sale, I genuinely thought that my baking skills were much better than my cooking skills (which really isn’t very difficult), but everything that came out of my oven didn’t look quite right. Luckily, a lot of my friends and other NLC volunteers baked as well. We had a wide selection of traditional cakes like brownies, but also savory, vegan and gluten-free options.
On the day itself, there were four other friends with me and we had a great time. At first, things were quite slow but the pace picked up once we gained the courage to actually go up to (in some cases almost chase) other students and persuade them to donate.
One tip I would have has to do with the pricing. Rather than pricing all the baked goods differently, the price of everything we sold was ‘£1 or more – because it’s for charity’. That way, we encouraged people to think of the money that they were paying more as a donation for a good cause rather than just buying an afternoon snack. At first I was worried that no one would donate more than £1, but actually, the majority did and a few people even donated £10 or £20. In the end, in just five hours, we raised an amazing £153.96!
hank you Klara for supporting us in this way. Your cakes were delicious! Thumbs up!
If you are inspired by Klara to support North London Cares with your own fundraising event, check out our blog post or see our A-Z of Fundraising Ideas