# National Tea Day events to raise funds for charity - Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/04/19/national-tea-day-events-raise-funds-charity/ - Published: 2017-04-19T08:35:32+01:00 - Author: Melanie May **Charities are taking part in National Tea Day this week, with a whole host of fundraising tea parties taking place.** [National Tea Day](http://www.nationalteaday.co.uk/) takes place on 21^(st) April, with the official National Tea Day 2017 event takes place at Kensington Roof Gardens from 10.30 am. Attendees pay £5, which goes to the event’s charity partners, and are invited to take part in gourmet tea tasting, sample snacks, and join baking masterclasses. National Tea Day’s charity partners are: [Ronald McDonald House Charities](http://www.rmhc.org.uk/), [British Red Cross](http://www.redcross.org.uk/), [The Sick Children’s Trust](http://www.sickchildrenstrust.org/), [The Trussell Trust](https://www.trusselltrust.org/), [Sobell House](http://www.sobellhouse.org/), and [We Hear You](http://www.wehearyou.org.uk/). A number of the partner charities, as well as other charities, are holding events as part of National Tea Day, including: ## Advertisement #### Sick Children’s Trust Big Choc Tea [Tweet at https://twitter.com/bigchoctea/status/851027224270708736 no longer available]. [Big Chocolate Tea](http://www.sickchildrenstrust.org/bigchoctea/) takes place from 21st April to 1st May, and raises funds to help The Sick Children’s Trust support over 4,000 families with critically ill children. It asks people to host their own chocolate-themed tea party, cake sale or bake-off in the last week of April 2017– or at a time to suit them during the year.   #### British Red Cross’s HumaniTea > Sending out [#HumaniTea](https://twitter.com/hashtag/HumaniTea?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) > posters in time for [@BritishRedCross](https://twitter.com/BritishRedCross?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) > [#RedCrossWeek](https://twitter.com/hashtag/RedCrossWeek?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)! > Make your cuppa count ☕️ [https://t.co/jJyVHBG4Ax](https://t.co/jJyVHBG4Ax) [pic.twitter.com/P2FmW6OgJd](https://t.co/P2FmW6OgJd) > — Red Cross Events (@EventsRedCross) [April 5, 2017](https://twitter.com/EventsRedCross/status/849612787936620544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) The British Red Cross’s [HumaniTea](https://www.trusselltrust.org/get-involved/events/tea-for-trussell/) raises funds to help it support more people on their release from hospital. Every week the charity’s staff and volunteers visit hundreds of people in the UK who have recently been discharged from hospital to help them regain their confidence to live independently once again. It is asking people to host a HumaniTea party and ask guests to give a donation for the charity.   #### Sobell House Come 4 Tea > If you want to hold a Come 4 Tea event on [#NationalTeaDay](https://twitter.com/hashtag/NationalTeaDay?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) > or any other day contact Libby for a pack: [https://t.co/Dj76BvmBXc](https://t.co/Dj76BvmBXc) > [#Sobell4Tea](https://twitter.com/hashtag/Sobell4Tea?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) > [pic.twitter.com/BZczulMb3q](https://t.co/BZczulMb3q) > — Sobell House Hospice (@sobellhouse) [April 18, 2017](https://twitter.com/sobellhouse/status/854391644564705280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) Sobell House asks people to hold a [Come 4 Tea](http://www.sobellhouse.org/fundraising/come4tea.html) event. It helps around 3000 people across Oxfordshire a year, and needs to raise £1.4million each year to continue supporting people. Money raised through Come 4 tea events will help it continue.   #### Trussell Trust Tea for Trussell > Excited to be a charity partner of [@Nationalteaday](https://twitter.com/Nationalteaday?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw). > Together we can change lives by drinking tea! > [https://t.co/mY1rT6Quih](https://t.co/mY1rT6Quih) > [#NationalTeaDay](https://twitter.com/hashtag/NationalTeaDay?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) > [pic.twitter.com/IyQeCXwqYv](https://t.co/IyQeCXwqYv) > — The Trussell Trust (@TrussellTrust) [April 12, 2017](https://twitter.com/TrussellTrust/status/852127912572706816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) Trussell Trust is asking people to hold a [Tea for Trussell](https://www.trusselltrust.org/get-involved/events/tea-for-trussell/) at home with friends or in their lunch hour with work colleagues, with funds raised going to help the charity support more people struggling with hunger and poverty.   #### Ronald McDonald House Charities tea parties ![Cupcakes - photo: Pixabay](https://wfay6x.infiniteuploads.cloud/2022/07/cupcakes. webp) Ronald McDonald House Charities is holding its own tea parties, inviting people to come along to one of its houses to see first-hand the work the charity does, and to help it raise funds. [Tea parties](http://www.rmhc.org.uk/get-involved/rmhc-events/community-fun-days/) are taking place in locations including Manchester, Camberwell, Southampton, and Brighton.   #### Guide Dogs Great Guide Dogs Tea Party > Celebrate [#NationalAfternoonTeaWeek](https://twitter.com/hashtag/NationalAfternoonTeaWeek?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) > and organise a Great Guide Dogs Tea Party! [https://t.co/rZJ3Ch1qCe](https://t.co/rZJ3Ch1qCe) > [#teatime](https://twitter.com/hashtag/teatime?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [pic.twitter.com/lxgQmfmSEN](https://t.co/lxgQmfmSEN) > — Guide Dogs (@guidedogs) [August 10, 2016](https://twitter.com/guidedogs/status/763457432777400320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) Guide Dogs is asking people to host a [Great Guide Dogs Tea Party](http://www.guidedogs.org.uk/tea-party) to mark National Tea Day and help it raise funds, with a free fundraising kit to provide help and inspiration.   ![Loading](https://fundraising.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/page-views-count/ajax-loader- 2x.gif) ## Comments ### By: HowardLake - Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/04/19/national-tea-day-events-raise-funds-charity/#comment-2962 - Published: 2017-04-22T14:53:00+01:00 Bloodwise also took part. It commissioned a survey to find out Britain’s most popular cake. It revealed that chocolate cake was the 2017 runaway winner. It won by a considerable margin, with more than one in five (22%) people preferring it to second place lemon drizzle (13%) and third place carrot cake (12%). The quintessentially English Victoria Sponge fell flat in sixth place (9%), with banana loaf suffering a seriously soggy bottom as Britons’ least favourite type of teatime treat (2%). [http://www.bloodwise.org.uk/tea-with-the-girls](http://www.bloodwise.org.uk/tea-with-the-girls)