A BAKER has helped the funding pot for a cancer charity rise.
Lottie Shaw, of Elland, has donated £400 from sales of her limited edition, chocolate-topped gingerbread bike, sold at farm shops during and after the Grand Depart to Marie Curie Cancer Care - one of the official charity partners for the Tour de France and organisers of the Power Peleton.
The speedy snacks were hand finished at Lottie Shaw’s bakery in Elland – with an experienced team of finishers sifting through hundreds of tubes of Smarties to pick out the yellow sweets – the iconic colour of Le Tour – for the wheels.
“Our chief finishers spent several hours working their way through 8,000 yellow Smarties to decorate our gingerbread bikes!” says Lottie Shaw. “But it was all for a brilliant cause.
“Everyone has been touched by cancer and it’s wonderful to be able to offer just a little bit of help to such a worthy charity.”
Sharon Link, fundraising manager at Marie Curie’s Bradford Hospice, said: “The money raised will directly support patients and families who are cared for either in the Marie Curie Hospice in Bradford or by one of our dedicated Marie Curie Nurses in someone’s own home.
“All our services are completely free of charge and we couldn’t continue to do it without the generous support of local businesses like Lottie Shaw’s.”
