Coffee Morning for Cancer Research UK

On Sunday 6th July I organised a post Boot Camp Coffee Morning at Nutbrook Cricket Club in aid of Cancer Research UK. Rather than asking for sponsorship for every race I'm doing this year I thought people deserved something back and a little naughty treat too for all their hard work.

Saturday was spent in the kitchen making lots of mess and hopefully nice tasting cakes and cookies. First up a little bit of cheating but so the kids had some little cakes they would enjoy we made the standard Disney style cakes from a box adding an egg to the packet. It also gave us a nice easy start and got the oven warmed up for the other items too. Next followed cornflake cakes, chocolate chip cookies and cupcakes. Decorating the cupcakes was brilliant pretending I was painting an Airfix model as a client again haha.

 

 

So far all is going well and I'm thinking thank god I'm a personal trainer or I would have eaten every single item by now with a few pints of milk to wash it all down.

Then a client arrived with their cake for the event as they couldn't attend due to work. A lot of thought and effort went into this cake as the event was at the cricket club she made a cricket pitch cake. In the time she made the cake her husband sat making a little set of stumps to go on top. His effort was worth it as the cake looked awesome. As she couldn't attend the event the following day I let her sample (for a small donation) one of the white chocolate cornflake cakes and apparently it was "the bomb". This gave us confidence the rest of the food wasn't a disaster.

Mum then entered the kitchen as it was her turn to give us the master class. Not that I'm jealous of how easy she made it look or anything but it was just effortless.

Here comes Sunday morning, I'm setting up Boot Camp while Mum and Lauren are in the pavilion setting up the cakes and getting the kettle boiling. What we hadn't realised was there would be an under11 hardball match that morning as well as the Nutbrook Petanque team down there. Before we even finished boot camp they had a queue to the door and had made over £30 before we really started. Slowly more friends, family and clients arrived bringing all sorts of cakes which looked so tempting.



Personal Trainers nightmare but all for charity.



Quality home made cricket pitch cake with handmade stumps.

I did have to try a small slice of the chocolate beetroot cake and it was amazing!

As we was just about to sort out the last remaining cakes I was asked if I could play cricket for the 2nd team in the cup match at the club. So I drove home to drop off my boot camp kit and pick up my cricket bag. We don't need cricket details as we lost but their scorer donated his fee from the game to the coffee morning too which was a lovely gesture.

Overall we raised £245.50 which I was thrilled with. Once it was bagged up Monday morning it was paid onto my JustGiving site for Cancer Research UK to access.

Now to focus back on Running for the Leeds and York 10k.