PANCAKES!
The 8th of March saw Woodford take to Shrewsbury with hundreds of donated items to sell along with baskets of eggs, butter and flour, ready to offer the busy shoppers of Shrewsbury a tasty and freshly made pancake for a suggested donation, all in the aid of the First Official Pre-School For Deaf Children in Uganda .
This was our first ever event for Pancake Day and also our first event to be held in the Shrewsbury market square. Nerve racking stuff, but we couldn’t have had a better team, and with class ingredients donated to Woodford– free range eggs from Just-Eggs of Ludlow, flower from Bacheldre Mill and fillings and Milk from Sainsbury’s in Shrewsbury. All topped off with the kind donation of cooking gas from Millets of Shrewsbury.
It was a beyond fantastic start and the atmosphere was cheerful and a little frenzied as we scrambled for appropriate change and raided our packing boxes for carrier bags for the good people of Shrewsbury to take home their hauls in. We came across our first hurdle when we literally ran out of carrier bags, prompting a quick dash to market hall, where a lovely woman from a fruit and vegetables store saved the day by donating us a huge bundle of shopping bags.
But soon enough the square was filling up with the smell of good quality pancakes, which were selling just as fast as we could make them. As the day flew by the sun was shining, the pancakes were frying, the donation buckets were filling and items were selling left right and centre. Before we knew it 4.30 had come around, so we slowly packed up and enjoyed some lovely leftover pancakes.
As we totalled up we were thrilled to find our accumulated total of £630.44!!!
A big thank you to Graham, Felicity, Chris, Mai and Mary, without their help none of this would have been possible. And also to everyone who donated goods and items for us.
Also, a huge thank you to everyone who showed up at our stall and sampled a pancake or brought a book or trinket or an ornamental vase, every penny counts and it shall all go towards helping deaf children in Uganda to learn how to communicate with their families and communities, and go on to receive an education which without your help would not be possible.
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