Duerr’s Cash For Kids Bake Offs, which took place across Manchester last week, have helped raise £88,000 (and counting!) for Key 103 and their Wythenshawe (UHSM) Hospital Outpatients Department campaign!
As passionate bakers Duerr’s encouraged as many people as possible to host a cake sale or coffee morning on 26th April to raise vital cash. To lend a hand, Duerr’s provided the first 200 companies, schools or individuals, who registered their details with jars of jam. That enabled fundraisers across Manchester to hold a cake sale packed full of firm bottoms and sticky moments which did the patron saint of baking – Mary Berry – proud.
With the final donations still coming in, the money raised will enable the transformation of a concrete wasteland into a garden area to be used by 8,000 children.
In acknowledgement of his achievements at F Duerr and Sons Ltd, the UK’s oldest remaining family owned preserves manufacturer, Associate
Read moreLast week we asked our lovely Facebook and Twitter fans whether they preferred seeds or seedless jam! Well the results are
Read moreEdgar Duerr’s Lifeguard Periscope was given pride of place in a feature written by The Times. The invention was highlighted
Read more