Click over to the Telegraph's website, here, to read the full story.
Roll on Glastonbury!
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| Vicci and Katie are proudly representing Glasto Cakes in today's Sunday Telegraph |
Sunday 31 May 2015
The Sunday Telegraph Celebrate 100 Years of the WI - With Glasto Cakes to Boot!
We are SO proud to feature in today's Sunday Telegraph with fellow WI members as the paper celebrates the diversity in this fabulous movement as we celebrate our centenary year.
Click over to the Telegraph's website, here, to read the full story.
Roll on Glastonbury!
Click over to the Telegraph's website, here, to read the full story.
Roll on Glastonbury!
Wednesday 27 May 2015
Stop the (Cookie) Presses! Glasto Cakes Served Up in the Media!
What a whirlwind of a week! Wow!
Like a (vegan, gluten free of traditional!) cake in the oven, we are SO pleased that following Margaret and Katie's appearance on BBC Somerset this weekend (with ginger cake and chocolate muffins as a taster for presenter Jack Murley!), many have turned their heads to the scent of our baking cakes and reported on our preparations ahead of our FABULOUS Glastonbury adventure!
Interested in what the BBC had to say?? Read it here!
What about a few words from the Mail Online?! Check it out here!
The Independent also reported on us - read that here!
...and last. but certainly NOT least - Joanne guested on Nick Conrad's BBC Norfolk show to talk all things 100 years of the WI.
Of COURSE Joanne brought along a sample of vegan lemon drizzle to the studio for a critique - the very one which will be available on our stall at Glastonbury! The verdict? Visit the BBC Norfolk website to hear all about it!
28 days left and COUNTING!!!
Like a (vegan, gluten free of traditional!) cake in the oven, we are SO pleased that following Margaret and Katie's appearance on BBC Somerset this weekend (with ginger cake and chocolate muffins as a taster for presenter Jack Murley!), many have turned their heads to the scent of our baking cakes and reported on our preparations ahead of our FABULOUS Glastonbury adventure!
Interested in what the BBC had to say?? Read it here!
What about a few words from the Mail Online?! Check it out here!
The Independent also reported on us - read that here!
...and last. but certainly NOT least - Joanne guested on Nick Conrad's BBC Norfolk show to talk all things 100 years of the WI.
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| A Snap of the BBC Norfolk studio in its full glory! |
Of COURSE Joanne brought along a sample of vegan lemon drizzle to the studio for a critique - the very one which will be available on our stall at Glastonbury! The verdict? Visit the BBC Norfolk website to hear all about it!
28 days left and COUNTING!!!
Tuesday 19 May 2015
Glasto Cakes - Cambridge Correspondent Reporting!
Hello to all here who are tuned in to take the journey beside us as we make our way to the gates of Worthy Farm and into the Green Fields of Glastonbury!
I was absolutely OVERJOYED to be considered to stand shoulder to shoulder with lovely Somerset WI sisters to help dish out some divine homemade cakes. In fact, it was following talking about vegan baking at the WI's unofficial camp out, Tea and Tents, that the lovely mastermind of the entire Glasto Cakes concept, Katie, contacted me and asked me to share my skills in vegan baking and potentially come along, too. How could I resist?!
A few months later and I find myself on BBC Cambridgeshire promoting the WI's cake stall at Glastonbury that will absolutely be one of the BEST ways that members from across the entire country can come together to celebrate the WI's 100th year! Can you imagine a better place to hold a birthday party than at the world's BEST festival of performing arts?!
I was SO proud to see Katie, Vicci and Margaret hosted on the same page as the Duchess of Cambridge this weekend - and how FABULOUS that we will shortly be welcoming her to our sisterhood, too?!
I'll be spending an entire week in run up to Glastonbury in Katie's kitchen and that of the local village hall, baking vegan cakes divine with a personal goal of 300 cakes in a week! Watch this space for more!
On that note, I leave you with a photo of the tattoo I have done to remember this EPIC journey from my local Friends Meeting House as Founding President of Cambridge Blue Belles WI to the Green Fields at Glastonbury - with a badge depicting the WI's Home and Country logo from wartime. What better way to remember, I say?!
More soon darlings,
Glasto Cakes Cambridge Correspondent, Joanne
Daisy Change WI
Cambridge Blue Belles WI
I was absolutely OVERJOYED to be considered to stand shoulder to shoulder with lovely Somerset WI sisters to help dish out some divine homemade cakes. In fact, it was following talking about vegan baking at the WI's unofficial camp out, Tea and Tents, that the lovely mastermind of the entire Glasto Cakes concept, Katie, contacted me and asked me to share my skills in vegan baking and potentially come along, too. How could I resist?!
A few months later and I find myself on BBC Cambridgeshire promoting the WI's cake stall at Glastonbury that will absolutely be one of the BEST ways that members from across the entire country can come together to celebrate the WI's 100th year! Can you imagine a better place to hold a birthday party than at the world's BEST festival of performing arts?!
I was SO proud to see Katie, Vicci and Margaret hosted on the same page as the Duchess of Cambridge this weekend - and how FABULOUS that we will shortly be welcoming her to our sisterhood, too?!
I'll be spending an entire week in run up to Glastonbury in Katie's kitchen and that of the local village hall, baking vegan cakes divine with a personal goal of 300 cakes in a week! Watch this space for more!
On that note, I leave you with a photo of the tattoo I have done to remember this EPIC journey from my local Friends Meeting House as Founding President of Cambridge Blue Belles WI to the Green Fields at Glastonbury - with a badge depicting the WI's Home and Country logo from wartime. What better way to remember, I say?!
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| For Home and Country - celebrating 100 years of the WI! |
More soon darlings,
Glasto Cakes Cambridge Correspondent, Joanne
Daisy Change WI
Cambridge Blue Belles WI
Monday 18 May 2015
Glasto Cakes Blog 3
Well, that was the weekend that was!
On Friday we found ourselves hurriedly organising a photoshoot for the Mail on Sunday, and much thanks must got to Glastonbury Abbey who very kindly hosted this bit of fun after closing on Friday evening! Katie, Vicci and Margaret (with the generous help of Katie’s husband) set up a mini version of our marquee with gazebo and table set to serve teas. The lovely Adam took a set of fabulous photos, he managed to get us posing like professionals by the end of the “shoot”. We were right by the medieval kitchen in the grounds of Glastonbury Abbey, an entirely suitable setting we thought!
Of course, our phones and social media pages went crazy once everyone got sight of us, on the same page as the Duchess of Cambridge no less, and I gather we have had mentions on various radio stations since! I think you should be able to see the article online if you didn’t manage to get your paper yesterday!
Following that, our Sister Joanne appeared on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire, promoting Glastonbury, #flowersforheroines, tattoos and, of course The WI!
Katie has been out and about encouraging the ladies of Somerset to get baking, the support is mounting and our lovely WI Ladies are heating up ovens all over the County for this!
Our Twitter Feed is lively as ever, and our facebook page gives you brief updates of our progress almost daily.
Keep looking out for our posts and updates friends!
Best wishes, Katie Newell, Secretary, Puriton & District WI
On Friday we found ourselves hurriedly organising a photoshoot for the Mail on Sunday, and much thanks must got to Glastonbury Abbey who very kindly hosted this bit of fun after closing on Friday evening! Katie, Vicci and Margaret (with the generous help of Katie’s husband) set up a mini version of our marquee with gazebo and table set to serve teas. The lovely Adam took a set of fabulous photos, he managed to get us posing like professionals by the end of the “shoot”. We were right by the medieval kitchen in the grounds of Glastonbury Abbey, an entirely suitable setting we thought!
Of course, our phones and social media pages went crazy once everyone got sight of us, on the same page as the Duchess of Cambridge no less, and I gather we have had mentions on various radio stations since! I think you should be able to see the article online if you didn’t manage to get your paper yesterday!
Following that, our Sister Joanne appeared on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire, promoting Glastonbury, #flowersforheroines, tattoos and, of course The WI!
Katie has been out and about encouraging the ladies of Somerset to get baking, the support is mounting and our lovely WI Ladies are heating up ovens all over the County for this!
Our Twitter Feed is lively as ever, and our facebook page gives you brief updates of our progress almost daily.
Keep looking out for our posts and updates friends!
Best wishes, Katie Newell, Secretary, Puriton & District WI
Saturday 16 May 2015
Ecover, the Sunday Mail & BBC Cambridgeshire, here we come!
How EXCITING this weekend has been thus far!
First - we had our delivery from our FABULOUS friends at Ecover who are sponsoring us for ALL of our soap requirements in the Green Fields! We really do appreciate this generous offering and cannot wait to tell everyone how much we love using their product, inspired by no other than mother nature herself!
We were also thrilled to host the Mail on Sunday on the grounds of the Glastonbury Abbey as they snapped photos to accompany their exclusive scoop on us which will be featured on the newspaper's pages tomorrow. Be sure to get your copy to read an interview with us all on our journey to Glastonbury's Green Fields.
First - we had our delivery from our FABULOUS friends at Ecover who are sponsoring us for ALL of our soap requirements in the Green Fields! We really do appreciate this generous offering and cannot wait to tell everyone how much we love using their product, inspired by no other than mother nature herself!
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| Boxes of beautiful Ecover bounty! |
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| Vicci, Margaret & Katie posing for the Sunday Mail's photoshoot on the lawn of Glastonbury Abbey |
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| Katie & Vicci being snapped together for the Sunday Mail promo spot |
Last, but certainly not LEAST, Joanne will be sitting in as a part of BBC Cambridgeshire's Sunday Supplement tomorrow from 09:15 - 09:45. She'll be talking all things WI and of course, Glasto Cakes! Be sure to tune in to hear more.
Saturday 9 May 2015
Glasto Cakes Blog - 2
This weekend sees the start of some serious promotion. Our posts are being seen all around the Country and we are grateful to those wonderful WI sisters for sharing!
We have been in contact with local BBC and the national press, promoting our exciting adventure for our Centenary Year! We'll be featuring exclusively in this weekend's Mail on Sunday and Joanne will be joining the Sunday Supplement on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire on the same day from 09:15 - 09:45.
In the meantime, practicalities are being covered too. We are so lucky to have so many offers of bakes from the fantastic ladies of Somerset - a truly magnificent effort pulling us all together! Our fabulous team are sourcing mugs and plates - no paper nonsense for the WI of course, and we have sorted our water supply, and are organising refrigeration and the like too…it is all beginning to feel very real!
Keep looking out for our posts and updates friends!
Best wishes, Katie Newell (Secretary, Puriton and District WI)
If you aren't already following us on Twitter and Facebook - jump over now to stay up to date on our journey to Glastonbury - one cake at a time!
We have been in contact with local BBC and the national press, promoting our exciting adventure for our Centenary Year! We'll be featuring exclusively in this weekend's Mail on Sunday and Joanne will be joining the Sunday Supplement on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire on the same day from 09:15 - 09:45.
In the meantime, practicalities are being covered too. We are so lucky to have so many offers of bakes from the fantastic ladies of Somerset - a truly magnificent effort pulling us all together! Our fabulous team are sourcing mugs and plates - no paper nonsense for the WI of course, and we have sorted our water supply, and are organising refrigeration and the like too…it is all beginning to feel very real!
Keep looking out for our posts and updates friends!
Best wishes, Katie Newell (Secretary, Puriton and District WI)
If you aren't already following us on Twitter and Facebook - jump over now to stay up to date on our journey to Glastonbury - one cake at a time!
Wednesday 6 May 2015
Glasto Cakes Blog 1
Well, we have really started our preparation for the first WI Tea & Cakes Stand at Glastonbury Festival.
A gathering of WI Sisters learnt the art of vegan baking from WI Legend Joanne Croxford (Cambridge Blue Belles WI/Daisy Change WI) on Saturday 2nd May.
We spent a morning discussing our plans as cakes rose in my oven through the magic of baking powder, and care…we even tried some totally ‘free-from’ bakes - using gluten free flour alongside the dairy free products.
WI members from across Somerset have taken the challenge of this mighty bakeathon, and will be producing their finest cakes (including many suitable for those with specialist requirements).
Lovely Ladies from Somerset WIs, and across the UK, will be taking a turn on the Tea & Cakes Stand in the Green Fields at this greatest of festivals to ensure that the world knows the wonder of WI! We will be sharing our love of all things cake and tea, as well as letting our customers know the massive amount of phenomenal campaigns the WI runs and supports. To top it all we will hopefully raise some much needed funds for our sisters at ACWW!
So, if you fancy a cuppa and a catch-up, we will be ready and waiting for you for the whole of Glastonbury Festival 2015!
x Katie (Secretary, Puriton & District WI)
A gathering of WI Sisters learnt the art of vegan baking from WI Legend Joanne Croxford (Cambridge Blue Belles WI/Daisy Change WI) on Saturday 2nd May.
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| Katie and Joanne mixing a gluten-free vegan victoria sponge! |
We spent a morning discussing our plans as cakes rose in my oven through the magic of baking powder, and care…we even tried some totally ‘free-from’ bakes - using gluten free flour alongside the dairy free products.
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| Et voila! Gorgeous, light, airy and DELICIOUS |
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| Here's a snap of the WI Glasto Cakes team tucking in to said gluten free vegan victoria sponge! YUM! |
WI members from across Somerset have taken the challenge of this mighty bakeathon, and will be producing their finest cakes (including many suitable for those with specialist requirements).
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| Brave sisters of the Somerset Federation will bake a force to be reckoned with for Glasto's Green Fields |
So, if you fancy a cuppa and a catch-up, we will be ready and waiting for you for the whole of Glastonbury Festival 2015!
x Katie (Secretary, Puriton & District WI)
Monday 4 May 2015
How Glastonbury Will Celebrate 100 Years of the WI
We are a group of WI members who will proudly serve homemade cakes in the Green Fields at Glastonbury. Come for vegan, gluten free & traditional delights!
This page will detail our trip to Glastonbury, one bake at a time!
This page will detail our trip to Glastonbury, one bake at a time!
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