Portumna

Portumna Camogie Club annual cake sale will take place on Saturday, 31st July 2021 at the Town Square at 11.00 am.&nbsp;&nbsp;
Each year the club hold a cake sale to raise much needed funds for their thriving camogie club. And each year, the generosity of their local community continues unabashed.
The club members have been busy baking all sorts of delights to titillate their community!

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This wartime photograph was published in a 1916 issue of National Geographic with a caption referring to Adam, Eve, and the apple. 
Cake is more than just cake. With it we make friends, court lovers, and count our blessings.&nbsp;
The sharing of cake has always been part of the human story.&nbsp;
From Qesem Cave near Tel Aviv comes evidence of ancient baking prepared at a 300,000 year old hearth, the oldest ever found, where our ancestors gathered to eat together.&nbsp;
Retrieved from the ashes of Vesuvius: a circular loaf of bread with scoring marks, baked to be divided. “To break bread together,” a phrase as old as the Bible, captures the power of a baking to forge relationships, bury anger, provoke laughter.&nbsp;
Children make mud pies, have tea parties, mimic the rituals of adults.&nbsp;
Consider the cultures that leave delicacies graveside to let the departed know they are not forgotten.&nbsp;
Baking fundraisers are hugely popular. Macmillan host the world’s biggest coffee morning every year. It’s raised £200 million to provide practical, medical, financial and emotional support to people who have cancer.&nbsp;
The idea is simple; everyone bakes a cake, and for an hour or so on a specific morning, either in your home, at school or at work, you invite people to come and buy cake from you and have a coffee (or tea) together.&nbsp;
You get to eat cake, and Macmillan get to raise money to support their work. All their experience means the resources for fundraisers are bright, lively and useful.
A weekly coffee, cake and company morning is a way bringing people together as lockdown eases. And you know what they say? You can't buy happiness but you can buy cake....and thats kinda the same thing!

Portumna Camogie Club Annual Cake Sale

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