Join us at the Free Cakes for Kids Sheffield Summer Celebration!

Saturday 4 July 

Since our last event in February 2015, we've made an incredible 250 birthday cakes for children in Sheffield. We're having a celebration day which is open to everyone - so join us!

Buy and taste our famous cakes

FREE baking activities for kids

Enjoy a children’s storyteller

Browse a great selection of second-hand baking books

Masterclasses in decorating techniques from our volunteers

Raffle - win some fantastic Sheffield goodies and baking themed prizes

Find out more and sign up as a volunteer

As well as the opportunity to meet Free Cakes for Kids bakers and find out about the group, there will be cakes to taste and buy, free baking activities for children (and enthusiastic adults!) and a large selection of good quality second-hand cookbooks to browse.  

We’ve also just launched a fantastic range of Free Cakes for Kids Sheffield merchandise, including tea towels, badges, birthday cards and more, so you can wear your support for us with pride and know that all proceeds go straight back to make more birthday cakes.

The Cake Count for 2014 was 186 cakes! ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY SIX children who had a happy birthday, thanks to our fantastic volunteers and their incredible cakes.

In total, we've made 195 special birthday cakes since we began baking at the end of 2013 - from weird and wonderful requests from some very creative kids (canoe, Noah's Ark, Bob Marley!) to the ever-popular Peppa Pig, One Direction and Spiderman cakes.

We also held a cupcake baking workshop with some brilliant young women supported by Peile House as well as three workshops with children and families supported by Shelter Sheffield - cupcakes and gingerbread houses galore.

In February 2014, our Cake at Cookbook Sale at the Central Library raised much-needed funds, the Strathay Road runners donated their proceeds from their street party and in September, the Marshes Cycling Club's epic bike ride raised a fantastic £1000 for our baking fund!

We're really looking forward to more of the same in 2015 - more cakes, more workshops - as well as some new Free Cakes for Kids Sheffield branded merchandise and a fundraising event in the summer.

If you're making resolutions or want to be part of it in 2015, please get in touch. We're always looking for volunteers - to bake, deliver or help us in lots of other ways - and our 50 strong group meets four times a year as well as ad hoc fundraising events and activities.

You can also help us keep baking for some of the most disadvantaged children in the city by sponsoring a birthday cake for just £5 - here's how.

Riders from the Marshes Cycling Club and the local communities of Snaith and Goole came together on Sunday 14 September to raise an incredible £1000 for Free Cakes for Kids Sheffield with a 100 mile fundraising bike ride, cake sale and raffle. 

Nick Megson lead 23 riders from the club on the journey which took in Tadcaster, Wetherby, Selby and York before returning to the Brewer's Arms in Snaith for cakes and a well deserved rest. 

Have a look at the photos from the day...

We are so very grateful to the riders and local community for their incredible generosity - £1000 is a huge amount of money and will have a massive impact on Free Cakes for Kids Sheffield. The money raised will help us keep baking birthday cakes for children in the city, cover our essential costs and reach even more children who need birthday cakes over the next three years.

Needless to say, there are lots and lots of people we'd like to say thank you to:

Nick Megson, for organising this fantastic event and making the day possible

All the riders from the Marshes Cycling Club and their sponsors, Guardian Industries

Kevin Megson and Nigel Walker who drove the support van

Amanda Megson and Tracey Barnett who drove the support car 

Debbie Haller - for keeping the riders supplied with cake and making a beautiful cake for the raffle

Ian Chesworth who raised £325 in sponsorship from friends and workmates at Whyte and Mackay

Darren and Tracey Barnett who made 200 chocolate chip cookies!

Sandra East and Allana Shaw for their help running the cake stall

Kim Broderick for running the raffle

Inez Mackie (8), Scarlet Mackie (11) and Mimi Cooper (11) for making beautiful loom bands (which raised £76!)

Big thanks to the Megson, Broderick and Waterworth families for turning out for the whole day, for your incredible support and generosity and for thoroughly testing out all the cakes...

Finally, to everyone who took the time to come along, donate, ride, eat some cake, buy a raffle ticket - thank you.