# National Doughnut Week to raise funds for The Children’s Trust

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/04/07/national-doughnut-week-raise-funds-childrens-trust/
- Published: 2017-04-07T09:00:54+01:00
- Author: Melanie May

**Doughnuts will once again be raising funds for The Children’s Trust this year,
during next month’s National Doughnut Week.**

 

[National Doughnut Week](http://www.nationaldoughnutweek.org/) takes place from 
6^(th)-13^(th) May, and has now been running for 26 years, following its launch 
in 1991 by independent baker Christopher Freeman.

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It asks people to buy a doughnut from a participating baker with the money going
to [The Children’s Trust](http://www.thechildrenstrust.org.uk). Last year, National
Doughnut Week raised £22,783 for the charity, with the help of 394 bakers, cafes
and shops.

 

Overall, National Doughnut Week has raised a total of £872,857 for children’s charities
since launch. In 2005, The Children’s Trust became the chosen charity and has so
far received £372,583 from the event.

 

Baking events have proved a popular way of raising funds for charity with many going
on around the country over the next few months. GOSH will be holding its annual 
[Bake it Better](https://www.gosh.org/get-involved/fundraising-events/other-ways-fundraise/get-your-bake-on?wssl=1)
event from 22^(nd-)28^(th) May, while [Bake for Bliss](http://www.bliss.org.uk/Event/bake-for-bliss-2017)
takes place this month, from 24^(th) – 30^(th) April, and asks people to host a 
bake sale for [Bliss](http://www.bliss.org.uk/). Make-A-Wish has [Bake-A-Wish](https://www.make-a-wish.org.uk/support-us/fundraise/bake-a-wish),
while 15^(th) June is [Cupcake Day](https://cupcakeday.alzheimers.org.uk/) for Alzheimer’s
Society, and Macmillan’s [World’s Biggest Coffee Morning](https://coffee.macmillan.org.uk/)
takes place on 29^(th) September this year. In 2015, it raised a record-breaking
£27.6 million for the charity.

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