Our First Birthday!

Today is our first birthday, here at 280 Bakes. We're so proud and pleased to have survived and thrived through to our first landmark birthday. Hooray for small business!

​Over the last year we've gone from being porch sale cake stall to a bona fide company. So what have we achieved?
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• ​We've developed a specialism for vegan cakes,
• We now employ five Bristol based bakers: Louise, Destiny, Debbie, Katy who bake and deliver, and Lloyda, who does the occasional event for us.
• Our unique service of CakeOD (cake delivered on demand) is a valued service across Bristol.
• We've been published in Boundless Magazine (a recipe), a review on Wriggle, an article on '5 places to enjoy 280 Bakes cake in Bristol' in Harboured Magazine, mentioned in the Wiltshire Gazette & Herald, South Bristol Voice, BS9 and Ambition Lawrence Weston local magazines (a feature and a review), and numerous foodie blogs.
• The Bristol Food Tour regularly orders our vegan peanut butter and chocolate cake for their vegan foodie tours.
• We have developed a huge network of 'foodie colleagues' who we enjoy supporting and love when they join in our cakey fun (e.g. Moor Beer, Fab Fudge, among others)
• In February, we delivered our 280th (a significant number in our business!) cake.
• We've raised money for Macmillan Cancer Support through coffee morning donations and other local fundraising events, and our bakers volunteer their skills for Free Cakes For Kids - Bristol.
• The business has been in profit from day one - a real start-up achievement!
• We've attended over 20 events in the last 12 months, from vegan food fairs to local carnivals and fetes.

​We held a coffee morning to celebrate all this with our 'friends of 280 Bakes' and our customers today, and here are the best photos from the event.
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Thank you to all who came out to celebrate with us - here's to another year's baking!

​The Team @ 280 Bakes