We suggest a minimum of £4 per entry but hugely appreciate any amount!

The Pawfect Off is to celebrate Sally Callow's 10 year Anniversary with the famous 

ME Foggy Dog - a rather handsome globetrotting adventurer raising funds for CURE M.E!

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For this round we have teamed up with Sally and Foggy - learn more about them here website.

And to learn more about CURE ME who drive biomedical research into ME/CFS please visit their website here.

We welcome and encourage ALL levels and ages of baking & bakers. 

This is a fun, light hearted way to raise funds and awareness for a serious cause. 

PAWS (pets, animals!) is the theme. 

But, any theme, any cake, any bake, 

is always welcome! 

Your participation is hugely appreciated.

If you have ME/CFS or Long Covid (OR any illness/disability) which might mean you feel more comfortable to enter with an assigned virtual baking buddy then we can sort this for you.

Email 

bake4me.social@gmail.com 

to find out more.

And/or see COLLABORATIVE BAKER below for more info

Meet Jennie Jacques British Actress, avid reader and the creator of BAKE4MECFS.  

You might recognise her as Queen Judith, 

History Vikings. 

"I am in my 5th year with an ME/CFS diagnosis; even at the milder end (today) I vouch this is a horrific illness. The science desperately needs funding. 

Luckily, I am seeing some improvement(s) to date which I hope will continue. 

But it has been half a decade of living this nightmare and although grateful for the progress/relief to date, in many respects I remain a shadow of my former self.

ME/CFS robs lives - it can be relentless and unforgiving. It 

will be my prerogative to fight for the science to be sufficiently funded to help those who do not and cannot recover."

JENNIEJACQUES.COM

Meet Sally Callow and her Foggy Dog!

And here is Jennie Jacques interviewing Sally Callow! Foggy could not make it 

because he was 

jet-setting around the USA... 

Our long-term goal is to bring about social change for M.E. patients internationally by smashing the stigma with our awareness-raising, changing policy with our campaigning, and funding research that will eventually lead to a treatment or cure." 

Sally Callow

Meet

Rosie Brandreth

Honoured to welcome baker and vet, Rosie, back to the judging panel for 

the Pawfect Bake Off...

it could not be more pawfect!

Great British Bake Off semi-finalist 2019, Christmas Bake Off Winner 2020! Read more about Rosie here - 

Baking From a Vet for You and Your Pet!

"I developed my passion for baking from a young age, growing up with my parents and sister in Oxfordshire. We shared the house with various animals throughout my childhood, including a lovely ginger cat I used to chase, and an ever so patient red setter who tolerated constant toy stacking on/around his legs. This led to me training as a veterinary surgeon at Cambridge University, and now working as a vet with horses, dogs and cats. I now have my own menagerie: three dogs (the bulldogs are both hand rears, and as a result, ever so entitled!), two horses, snakes, lizards, a tortoise, chickens and ducks. "

Meet 

Felicity Franks

Fabulous and super creative 

Pet portrait artist who has supported BAKE4ME in the past and returns as a Judge!

Learn more about her here; website

"My love of art started from a young age, I entered a county primary school collage competition to create the best collage made out of torn up newspaper pages and I won! The prize was a life size cutout of Aladdin (I loved it - my Mother did not!), but in that moment I realised I was a creative person and a love of art was born."

The STAR bake was entered by Sarah. We read in Sarah's bio that she is an endometriosis warrior! Endometriosis is a long term condition which affects 1 in 10 women. Similar to ME/CFS it is evident that Endometriosis is painfully under researched. We were honoured that Sarah chose to bake to raise awareness for us.

And we very much look forward to sharing Sarah's story behind this 'SUCH FUN'  bake.

"My daughters Daisy (age 4) and Bella (age 2) are delighted to have won mini star baker! 

We are always keen to support ME/CFS charities as my sister Naomi has suffered from severe ME for over 30 years. She’s incredible, despite all her years of suffering, and she is a wonderful Auntie to the mini star bakers! 

Naomi has got a website here, where she shares her writing about life with severe ME. 

As well as supporting a good cause that is close to our hearts, the girls and I love baking. Despite their young age, Daisy and Bella have spent many hours baking, and the cake was all their idea. They chose the colours of the cake and loved creating the face on top. They did all the decorating and took great care in making sure the sides were evenly covered with sweets! And of course making sure there were some left to taste along the way!"

"I heard about the competition through Miranda Hart's Instagram page. 

 I have ME/CFS myself, so I was excited to see a competition to raise awareness and funds. My Mum helped me create this cake over a few weeks of paced baking to make it more manageable for me.  I chose to make a sloth, because a lot of the time I feel like due to ME/CFS my body and mind are on a go slow, never getting far despite using all my energy. So I feel quite like a slow sloth!  Even though ME/CFS impacts my whole life, I am still me, my own unique individual, with lots to give including a sense of humour and fun. So I wanted to make this cake a bit fun with the happy sloth, and rainbow on the inside, showing that despite ME/CFS I am still here, my own self, and ME/CFS does not define me. 

Thanks for running this competition. It means a lot to me to see ME/CFS being recognised, and it is very uplifting to be able to be apart of it! I look forward to creating some more bakes!"