Prize Making for Work Socials

A couple of weeks ago I helped organise two events at work in aid of Red Nose Day. The first was a bake off, where I encouraged as many of my colleges to bake as I could. Not everyone entered the competition, but then the main aim was to sell cake to raise money.



We had a total of 12 amazing entries, which were judged on appearance, technical ability, comic value and taste by four of the big bosses at work (easy to convince the CEO to help when it's for charity and there is free cake!).









Much fun was had, plenty of cake was sold and we raised over £200 for Red Nose Day.
I made these delicious creme egg brownies and a pink and chocolate marble cake covered in butter icing, yum!








This brings me now to the prizes, bronze, silver and gold bake off medals! My college Paul sourced the spoons/spatula and sprayed them with metallic paint. I threaded red ribbon through holes in the handles so they could be hung around the winner's necks and added the spotty red ribbon (this ribbon was foraged from a gift I received). I think our three winners were pretty pleased with their medals.








The following week I made four golden crowns to award to the winners of a quiz night hosted at work. As we were again raising money for Red Nose Day, we couldn't give a money prize. Made from gold card, I used red and silver glitter (any excuse to use glitter) to add detail. The winning team did really well and I think they rather enjoyed been crowned the winners!




The quiz night raised another £150 or so for Red Nose Day with the team entry fee and a bottle raffle, making a total of £350 odd raised, not too bad!