Shropshire gets into the Red Nose Day spirit

Shropshire’s three main Sainsbury’s stores in Shrewsbury, Oswestry and Telford took part in a day of fun with staff members dressing up and taking part in various challenges. In Shrewsbury staff members were put into a jail at the front of the store whilst in Oswestry members of the team took it in turns to ride an exercise bike with donation being made by shoppers. In Telford the Sainsbury’s team dressed up for the day.

Harper Adams in bake off for Comic Relief

James Chapman, sous chef, Jake Cooper, catering placement student, and Jenny David, catering administrator.

Staff and students at Harper Adams University pulled out all the by staging their own version of The Great British Bake Off in aid of Comic Relief.

The university’s catering department challenged staff and students to get baking, and their Red Nose Day-themed cupcakes, sponges, cookies and flapjacks were sold off on campus earlier today.

A special Comic Relief cake was also created by Jenny David, catering administrator, which was raffled off.

Jake Cooper, a BSc (Hons) Agri-Food Marketing with Business Studies student at Harper Adams, who is carrying out his placement year in the university’s catering department, and Maxine Hughes, head chef, came up with the fundraising idea.

Twenty-year-old Jake, who is from Derby, said the donation of cakes was fantastic and enabled them to raise £355 in just over two hours.

Council staff do something funny for Comic Relief
Shropshire Council staff showed their support for Comic Relief by carrying out a wide range of weird, wonderful and wacky fundraising activities.

All week, the council’s Shirehall HQ has been wearing a giant red nose to show its support for Red Nose Day.

Adrian Andrew, Assistant Branch Secretary with Shropshire UNISON, dressed up as a red dragon and serenaded staff with his version of ‘Puff the magic dragon’ as they arrived at Shirehall this morning – raising £275.93

The Column Restaurant at Shirehall also served up a special red-themed lunch menu, as well as selling cup cakes at Shirehall, and placing collection buckets in the restaurant.

Adrian Andrew, dressed up as a red dragon and serenaded Shropshire Council staff.

Red Noses All Round at The Marches School
The Marches School in Oswestry hosted an array of activities to celebrate and support Comic Relief 2013. The Library was taken over for the day, becoming a live studio for the school’s radio station and the Sports Hall hosted the recent global phenomenon, the ‘Harlem Shake’!

Other activities have also included a charity cake sale at the school, with a total of £60.66p being raised for Comic Relief.

Amy Rowley commented, “This has been an amazing experience; being able to use the school’s technical equipment to turn the Library into a Live Radio Studio for the day. We have all loved supporting Comic Relief and the radio activity has really helped to create a buzz around school.”

Katie Davies, Carly Jackson and Gabriella Edwards.

The Rural Enterprise Centre do something yummy for money
Staff from The Rural Enterprise Centre, Shrewsbury celebrated Red Nose Day 2013 by doing something yummy for money.

Michelle Jones Centre Manager and Leanne Roberts Receptionist held a cake sale at the centre, they got all the clients involved by asking them to bake a cake that would be displayed and sold at reception donating all money to Comic Relief 2013!

The centre always gets involved in Red nose day & Children in need each year.

Michelle Jones, Centre Manager said “I am chuffed with the amount the centre has raised by doing this bake day and we do enjoy getting us and the clients involved in various charity events throughout the year.”

Suzanne Shorrock, owner of Ladypace, trainer Lucy Webb and Katie Wellington of Katie's Kids Kitchen.

Shrewsbury ladies only gym holds bake off
The members of Ladypace, Shrewsbury's ladies only gym have also been busy baking some amazing cakes for a special Comic Relief bake off. With everything from intricate strawberry decorated hearts to creme egg brownies and red noses in cake form, it was a hard task for judge Katie Wellington of Katie's Kids Kitchen to pick a winner.

In the end it was a highly detailed Cookie Monster cake baked by Judith Rawlings that scooped first prize, a meal for two at The Peach Tree. Katie said: "All the cakes were incredible and the winning creation was really original and fun."

All the cakes will be sold off and it's hoped more than £200 will be raised for the charity.