Last year I spent hours and hours making a cake for a cancer race day event. I really wanted to do something for the event, but instead of raffling it at £1.00 a go and giving it to the lucky number picked out (which should have made an awful lot of money) they auctioned it off at the end of the day and it only made £45.00. What a missed opportunity! I was asked to make a cake again this year, but said no. I’d rather put a reasonable amount of money in the charity tin myself. The lady who asked me again didn’t seem very impressed I said no. But when I’m donating time and materials for free I would expect them to at least try and get a good price. If it was for an order it would have cost at least twice that to cover the decorating time alone. It’s taught me that although I don’t want to be mean, I’m not going to be taken for a ride either.
karen,Gwynedd
