# Afternoon Tea Week to promote tea and cake themed fundraising events

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2016/06/07/afternoon-tea-week-promote-tea-cake-themed-fundraising-events/
- Published: 2016-06-07T14:20:55+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Charities are being encouraged to invite their supporters to hold afternoon tea-
themed fundraising events during Afternoon Tea Week, which runs from 8th to 14th
August 2016. **

 

All fundraising events will receive free advertising through the dedicated [Afternoon Tea Week](http://www.afternoonteaweek.com)
website, which will be launched on 13th July.

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Afternoon Tea Week is designed to celebrate one of the nation’s favourite traditions.
Each day Britons drink 165 million cups of tea.

 

![Tea and cakes](https://wfay6x.infiniteuploads.cloud/2016/06/tea-cakes.jpg)

 

Keith Newton, Managing Director of sponsor AfternoonTea.co.uk said:

 

> “We had a tremendous response to Afternoon Tea Week last year, with activities
> running across the country and #afternoonteaweek trending at number one on Twitter.
> “People of all ages love the tradition of afternoon tea and it’s so easy to hold
> a tea party in aid of your favourite charity”.

 

## Fundraising to a tea

 

Tea and cake-[themed fundraising ideas](https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/02/06/effective-fundraising-ideas-for-charities-in-2017/)
include:

 

 * themed children’s tea party;
 * baking competition;
 * baking cakes to sell at the office;
 * serving a homemade afternoon tea for friends and family;
 * holding an afternoon tea garden party.

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