How much for a slice of cake for school funds?

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Sports day tomorrow, as usual request for baking have been made. There’s generally quite a lot of donations and I volunteered at the Christmas school fair and there was a lot left over. Local businesses also donate cake shop and bakery etc which is nice if you worried about hygiene. It’s £2 for a slice (not huge ) £2 for tea £1 for squash £1 for smaller cookies etc. I just think it’s too expensive it used to be half the price. Do you think it’s too much or is it reasonable?

It depends. Is the cake from a bakery or is it McVities Jamaica Ginger loaf?

Depends on the portion size, and to a large extent where the school is.

I think the cake price is ok but the tea is expensive.

It could either be £1 for squash and cookie and £2 for tea and cake or the cakes could be at various prices from £1-2. Some cakes could be sold whole for people to take home. I think families should be able to get a drink and cake each for £5 per family

I think that's OK...

I’d say £1 per slice for shop bought, £1.50 for homemade and £1 per cuppa. I’m in London.

Local bakeries have donated loaf cakes or big cookies before that are nice but possibly not £2 each nice. Oarents it’s always a mixed bag of really quite nice cake through to the kids made crispy cakes.

We do £1.00 for hot drinks, I think £2.00 for tea is too much.
Our cakes and cookies range from 50p for kids small cakes to £1.50 for an adult slice.
We find we make more money keeping the prices affordable.

I think that's all fine apart from the squash, I'd have it as 50p or even free.

I think £2 per tea is too much, if you have slightly cheaper cakes then people will buy more. I also think it’s nice to have some biscuits or something small for around 25-50 pence that the children can spend their last few pennies on.

I think school fetes are a strange thing. Coffee and cake in Costa or a pretty tea garden, £10 (?) and they'll be busy all weekend.

Coffee and cake at a school fete, raising funds for your DC's school and anyhthing more than £1.50 is too much....?

I agree £2 is too much for a plastic cup of tea, but if the cakes are good people should be prepared to pay £2, but probably won't.

Round our way £1.50 for cake would be more realistic. And you surely can't charge more than £1 for a cup of tea.

I think when it was cheaper people would buy extra cake and take them home at the end too. After the Christmas fair someone donated nearly 3/4 of the stuff from bakery to the day lounge of local sheltered housing as hadn’t sold. I suspect it would of sold at a quid. It just feels a bit greedy so putting people off. I think my volunteering slot is at the end this year so may suggest a sale to get rid of leftovers.

Yes we used to slash prices at the end.
I think it's good to do a range of prices for cakes so people have a choice

£1 for squash!!!!

I agree with you
Should be half the price
And I tend to buy more if it's a better price

I think cake is tricky, a nice looking cake is not necessarily a nice tasting cake. Im possibly skint / tight but a fiver used to be a cup of tea, a squash and a nice selection of cakes for us all to nibble. Now it’s a fiver for a tea, one slice and a squash. I’m not donating less but I’m not really willing to spend more.

I know 🙈 my kids are older but it used to be 20p at earlier sports days.

I stopped making cakes for work bake sales when I realised that selling at £1 a slice wasn't making enough profit to make it worth the cost of ingredients and the hours I'd spend making them (I use real butter and homemade frosting etc). So I get why they're charging £2 a slice especially as the price of butter, eggs etc has gone up so much over the last couple of years. I wouldn't pay £2 for a rice krispie cake though.

Well the fact you had loads left over last time tells you what you need to know!
I think £1 max for tea/coffee. I’d also charge the same for cake. 50p for squash.
People tend not to carry much cash or loose change these days so probably couldn’t pay £2+ even if they wanted to

Portions are generally small. School is in a small village with a big rural catchment. Probably fairly middle class but lots of lower income families too.

I wouldn't want to buy cake at a sports day.

I would be thirsty, but not for hot drinks and not really hungry for cake - that's more a sit inside sort of thing.

Our school used to do very well with cups of fruit/water melon slices/cans of drink - strawberries are cheap at the moment - donating fruit is also less effort than making cake.

Could keep the local bakery cake donations for those that want that and ask parents for donations of fruit.

£1.50 cake, £1 tea, 50p squash.

Some of the people coming to school fetes wouldn't be going to Costa.... (Or at least not where we live...) So should be very affordable.

It's about community first, money second. Imo

I wouldn’t pay £2 then. I can get a home baked slice at that price at work.

We do strawberries ( optional cream) for £3 which also seems steep to me.