The Big Bake Up’s $4.5k freezer grant

The Big Bake Up is one of the latest OneFortyOne community grant recipients, receiving $4,500 towards purchasing a much-needed upright freezer.

The Big Bake Up is a Wakefield-based registered charity that prepares nutritious meals, made fresh and delivered frozen.

“It’s awesome for The Big Bake Up to receive this, the upright freezer will be a lifesaver for us in the way meals are accessed and able to be stored,” co-founder and operations manager Melissa Woodhouse says.

Storing meals in a chest freezer has been time-consuming due to difficulties accessing and rotating meals.

“Sturrock & Greenwood kindly lent us a new Co Sell upright freezer recently for us to trial and make sure it fits our needs. Now with these funds received from OneFortyOne we can purchase the freezer,” Melissa explains.

The volunteer team currently prepares between 200-300 meals each month and Melissa emphasises that their continued work would not be possible without the invaluable support from volunteers and local businesses.

Kylie Reeves from OneFortyOne says they were more than happy to help.

“The Big Bake Up team does amazing work in our community and we are happy to support them with a new freezer which will mean they can have more meals on hand to service the increasing number of requests and support community members who are in the greatest need.”

Meals are in many freezers around the district now including Wakefield School and Playcentre, Mainly Music Wakefield, Brightwater School and Playcentre, Brightwater Anglican Church, Pinegrove Kindergarten, Hope School, Appleby School, Richmond School, First Years Richmond, Age Concern Nelson Tasman, Family Start, Plunket Nelson Tasman, Nayland Primary and Nelson College for Girls.

The Big Bake Up team is encouraging individuals who know of someone who may benefit from a care parcel, and any businesses who may wish to support their work by sponsoring a cook up, to reach out here or call 027 209 9309.