To charge £3 for coffee & cupcake at Macmillan cake sale ?

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Having a Macmillan coffee morning on Sunday. It's in a community centre & been advertised so there will be people I don't know. Not sure what the done thing is with donations vs charging for coffee & cake. Personally, I hate the vagueness of 'donation' I agonise about the right amount so I was thinking of setting a price. £3 coffee & cupcake. £4 coffee & big wedge of cake. Does that sound ok?

Oh...I didn't put a price or suggested donation, I reckon it's worked out about £5 each.

That's a great result. I'm glad it worked out well.

You can charge what you like. If you aim to maximise the amount of money you raise, you have to gauge what people will pay. If you charge less, more people might come and you end up with more money overall....which is the purpose after all. I think that charity things often raise more by charging a bit less. The key thing isn't the amount you raise per cake, but the total.

Well done :) I'm glad you had a successful morning!

Thank You

All those saying charge £1 for a slice if cake it probably costs more to make them than that. Get with the real world economics of it

I don't know where you shop for ingredients PenelopePitstops but cakes don't cost anything like that to make, and I'd struggle to see how you could make them cost so much even if for some reason you wanted to.

Back, it depends on the cake. I made a cake for the coffee morning and the 150g of (good quality) chocolate alone cost more than £1. Add in a whole slab of butter plus the fruit and I reckon it cost £4-5 in ingredients. The organisers sold each slice for £2 (I bought 2 of them back myself) and there were 14 slices so I'm pleased with what it made.

I think bringing a flask of tea to an event looks cheapskate and stingy, just don't come at all.

Never heard anything like it - bringing your own tea to a fundraiser!!!

Just wanted to say a huge thank you to all who supported these sales. My DH is fighting cancer and we have had some really wonderful support from Macmillan. When he gets the all clear at 5 yrs we will be doing plenty of fundraising for them ourselves and we can't wait. xx

Glad it's not just me who thinks that

Words fail me.

Good luck to your DH with the treatment madmomma

Thanks bun He's had his surgeries and radiotherapy, just has to have one last biopsy so fingers crossed x

Well done op, in that case I would pay £3 for one of those decent slices of cake and a tea.

Did you have a good turn out of people OP?

I had one at home yesterday and I've just counted the number of people that came. I had 20 I think and we raised just over £200! I'm thrilled! The only thing I specified an amount for, was the poster games that came in the organisers pack. That was £2, but the winner got half the pot of money as a prize. The winners didn't want a return though. Put the money straight back in the donations.

Coffee, cake and chat on a Saturday afternoon, with your mates. You can't put a price on that! (DH could have done however, he was upstairs in his office, wondering exactly how much shit a bunch of woman could talk about and for how long! )

Surely people don’t go to these events looking for a bargain cake and coffee? Looking for a deal cheaper than a cafe? Surely they go to support a charity.

If people end up paying less than it cost those donating the cakes to make them, the cake makers might as well just give the cash instead of making cakes and more would be raised.

I’d expect to pay at least what I would in a cafe. I’d also expect to make an additional donation - as I’m there to support the charity, not to fill my stomach with cheap cake,

That sounds fine to me. I'm sure most of the people saying it's too much have paid a lot more than £3-4 for a coffee and a cake from somewhere like Starbucks without batting an eyelid, and this is for charity.

You could put "suggested donation".

I doubt OP needs to worry about what to put now seeing as this thread is from 2014!

They probably didn't in 2014 tbf.

Coffee shop prices have increased quite a bit since then......

Oops!