‘'What does the charity sector think the best pancake topping is?’, I hear you cry? Fear not, dear reader, Diary has these answers and more – alongside an occasional quip if you're lucky.
Shrove Tuesday meant that pancakes came into our lives en masse this week and charities took the opportunity to decorate them, relying on tenuous links to their organisations. Personally, Diary likes to do this with various baked goods all year round, and is a big supporter of this trend.
For example, Cats Protection made the treats cat-themed. RSPCA shared a dog-friendly pancake recipe and a pleased pup eating them.
🥞 Treat your furry friends to a pooch-friendly pancake recipe they’ll flippin' love this #PancakeDay! Packed full of tasty banana and xylitol-free peanut butter, this supaw easy and delicious recipe is sure to get tails wagging 🐕
— RSPCA (England & Wales) (@RSPCA_official) February 21, 2023
Keep watching for the full recipe! ▶️👇 pic.twitter.com/K88uVIBLwD
Fundraising consultancy THINK ran a poll asking the charity sector what the correct pancake topping was.
The humble lemon and sugar won out with 65% of votes. What does this say about the charity sector? That it is traditionalist, has brilliant taste and is always right, perhaps? (This may or may not be based on Diary’s biased account. A savoury pancake is pure blasphemy).
It's Pancake Day! Charity sector, what's the correct filling/topping?
— THINK Consulting Solutions (@ThinkCS) February 21, 2023
Here, have a Jaguar
In other news, TV and radio presenter Chris Evans’ CarFest donated a Jaguar sportscar once owned by Queen Elizabeth II to Comic Relief for a Red Nose Day Prize.
The press release for this news was written with such fervour for Evans’ that it implied he had the car rattling around in his garage and he donated it with as much goodwill as we would clothes to a charity shop. Just another day being mega-successful, etc. Who doesn’t have an extremely expensive car hanging about waiting to be donated? Losers, that's who.
But Evans cleared this up by stating it was the fundraising organisation he founded, CarFest, that donated the historic car, which made Diary feel a bit better.
Samir Patel, chief executive of Comic Relief, said: “We are enormously grateful to Chris Evans and CarFest for this generous donation for Red Nose Day – this truly is a prize like no other we have ever been able to offer our supporters. This is an extraordinary opportunity to own a real piece of history and will be such a special prize for the lucky winner.”
Diary is not a car aficionado, so the description of said car largely goes over our head. However, it is green and from all accounts goes vroom vroom. You can enter the prize draw here.
Orangutan bath bombs
At Fundraising Live this week, development director of Sumatran Orangutans Society Sarah Moore explained that the charity earned £300,000 through none other than ape-shaped bath bombs.
The charity worked with Lush to create the limited-edition bath bomb, which was bright orange. Once the bath bomb melted away a piece of banana paper with a QR code on would float to the top of the bath. When scanned it would send the user to a soundscape of the rainforest you were helping to protect.
The squirrel returns
In other news, Civil Society's mascot has returned with a vengeance - specifically for his paparazzi.
As displayed below, our beloved squirrel who lives nearby the office was shocked to be papped on his daily commute, seemingly unaware of the love Civil Society colleagues and our readers have for him.
Diary will keep readers updated with any news of our mascot, and is keen to hear thoughts on what we should call him.
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