College Bake Off Raises over £350 to support A Day for Pip

Students and Staff at The Sixth Form College held a Bake Off event last week to raise money for A Day for Pip – a charity event set up to raise awareness of Patau Syndrome and money for the Maternity Unit at Arrowe Park Hospital.

Everyone at the College showed incredible support to the cause by donating plenty of delicious treats and baked goods, which were then judged by our team of taste testers, Steve Hafford (winner of Best Sweet at the College’s last charity Bake Off event) and Personal & Guidance Tutors Leigh O’Mahony and Mike Crosby, who chose the following winners:

• Personal & Guidance Tutor, Anna Kennedy - winner of Best Savoury with her Sea Salt Water Biscuits
• Teacher, Ashley Vallance – winner of Best Sweet with her delicious Macaroons
• Student, Amber Cashin – winner of Overall Show Stopper with her incredible Sponge Train

The tasty treats were then put on sale, with a total of £355 being raised in the process for the A Day for Pip Cause. The College has numerous events planned over the coming weeks to continue supporting the event including a Car Wash for Staff and Students, a Recipe Book, Easter Hampers and Raffles plus many other efforts from both students and staff individually.

A Day for Pip is a fundraising event on Saturday 20^th June, set up by Chas Knight (Personal & Guidance Tutor at The College) and his wife Rebecca in memory of their daughter Pip. The event is to help raise awareness of Patau Syndrome (also known as Trisomy 13) - a chromosomal condition associated with severe intellectual disability and physical abnormalities in many parts of the body. Only five to ten per cent of children with the condition live past their first year. As there is no cure for the disease, any money raised in connection to the event will be donated to the Maternity Unit at Arrowe Park Hospital with a view to creating a space, named after Pip, that parents can go to after receiving devastating news from a routine scan.

A Day for Pip Bake Off