Bake the World a Better Place 2024
Event date:
13th - 19th May 2024
09:00 - 18:00
Location:
UK
Cost:
£20 - £100
Take a break; have some cake.
Register to pledge today!
Let’s bake the world a better place This Mental Health Awareness Week, the 13th to the 19th of May. Gather your practice, organisation or university together and let your staff know the help available to them.
Last year, 30 practices took part to raise an incredible £4000 for the architectural community, hosting their own events from Bake Off style competitions to cosy cake lunches, bringing their teams to together to take a break and have some cake!
Don’t just take our word for it! JM Architects joined Bake the World a Better Place in 2023, and had this to say:
“Bake the World a Better Place” is a key example of the ongoing social events the Care Group promote to encourage our colleagues to talk about mental health and break stigmas. ABS are also a useful resource of support specific to our profession and are an option if some alternatives are seen as too mainstream for a particular situation or individual.”
How to get involved
Register to pledge your commitment to fundraise for ABS and our mental health support services on during mental health awareness week. We’re asking for a small donation when you sign up. As a thank you we’ll mention your organisation on our website and send over a thank you gift, including a customised event recipe, to support your fundraising activities.
Encourage your team to have a break together and raise awareness of the mental health support available to them through us and other organisations.
Raise vital funds for our Welfare Support Services, to ensure that ABS can continue to be a foundation of support for the architectural community from now and until long into the future
Pledge your support
£20 – could go towards an annual student membership of AUK (actual cost £30)
£50 – could go towards one month’s running cost for mental health self-management email support (actual cost £77.11)
£100 – could cover the cost of one hour of therapy for someone struggling with their mental health
Join the pledge to be featured on our website and be sent a thank you gift.
As a thank you for pledging to join Bake the World a Better Place, we will send you some extra special goodies to make your baking event the best it can be.
Got any questions or need some ideas? Get in touch with us direct today at events@absnet.org.uk!
Your resources:
Download poster by James Aynsley, Ryder Architecture – Thank you to James Aynsley for designing this fantastic poster. Download and start promoting your Bake the World a Better Place fundraising event.
How your fundraising helps
Last year, ABS funded 1495 hours of therapy via our partner, AnxietyUK with 53% of all enquiries to our helpline being for mental health support. We also supported 20 practices via our Workplace Wellbeing Essentials programme, a course of workshops designed for the architectural community to improve professional wellbeing. 555 people benefited from these workshops, 2 online webinars and a mental health first aid course.
We partner with Anxiety UK to provide fast track referrals for wellbeing assessments and therapeutic support including CBT, hypnotherapy and counselling. We know that when a person is in crisis, getting support actioned fast is vital and that’s we are proud that ABS can enable people to have a wellbeing assessment within two weeks of initial enquiry.
