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Our First Birthday!

1/6/2017

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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

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