#bakewithukraine #ПечемозУкраїною

ABOUT

Bake With Ukraine was inspired by Cook For Ukraine, the brainchild of two London-based chefs, the Ukrainian-born Olia Hercules, and Russian-born Alissa Timoshkina. Their aim was to celebrate Ukrainian and Eastern European food while raising awareness of the humanitarian crisis facing Ukraine as well as emergency funds.

We decided to launch Bake With Ukraine to allow artisan baking amateurs, professionals, and their friends and followers to support the people of Ukraine in their hour of need. Right now, Ukrainians inside the country are enduring unimaginable distress, injury and death, while millions more are fleeing as refugees. The International Committee of the Red Cross has described the situation in Mariupol as ‘apocalyptic’ – ordinary people like us are being bombed and starved of food, water, heat and medical supplies. They urgently need our help.

WHAT YOU CAN DO

The immediate need is donations to aid organisations working on the ground. In the first instance, please consider simply giving money now -- from your own bank account, or from your business bank account.

Then, if you can start your own fundraising efforts, please do. One way to do this is to bake Ukrainian and eastern European breads and pastries and to donate the proceeds through this JustGiving page. Many of you in the artisan baking world have already begun fundraising and we will look at supporting your efforts by linking to your donation pages and websites. Please email info@bakewithukraine.com with any information about this.

As a community, let’s all start sharing Ukrainian recipes. You can do that by posting on social media and tagging @bakewithukraine or, even better, emailing recipes to recipes@bakewithukraine.com so we can get them up on this website.  

Please use the Ukrainian language hashtag #ПечемозУкраїною as well as English #bakewithukraine.

EXTRA FEES

We believe you should not have to worry about paying extra fees at a time when every penny counts for the people of Ukraine. When we made the first donation we chose to pay the extra fee and we think this remunerates JustGiving very well for the service they have provided so far.  We’ll keep our eye on things and top up if we think that's warranted. 

HELP US BAKE A BOOK

Bake With Ukraine aims to be more than a one-way street -- it is about collaboration between bakers in Ukraine, UK, Europe, Africa, USA, South America, Asia and around the world. Once we have a large enough collection of recipes, they will be published as a book, with photos from our contributors!  All proceeds will go to support the people of Ukraine. If you know a publisher who might help us, please email info@bakewithukraine.com.

WHO WE DONATE TO

The #CookForUkraine appeal is supporting UNICEF, so we have decided to support the British Red Cross. Although it is based in the UK, the British Red Cross channels funds to the International Committee of the Red Cross, who work directly on the ground in Ukraine. Most UK residents can choose Gift Aid to add an additional 25% to their donation at no further cost. As we progress, we will look to add other agencies.

MEDIA RESOURCES

Please post, post, post!  Logo images are available on our website https://www.bakewithukraine.com (just give us a day or so to get the website up).

Encourage your friends and followers to donate and get involved.

Keep an eye on our Instagram account @bakewithukraine (it's young but ready to rise up).

OUR TEAM

We are a small group of volunteers.  Can you swell our ranks?  So far our team is:

•    John Castley, Co-ordinator

•    Tetiana Siniuhina from Pouhque Bakery in Kharkiv, Ukraine

•    Linda Gannell, Carinya Creative

•    John & Sacha McKenzie, Mason McKenzie

You can join our voluntary virtual team by:

•    contributing recipes and photos

•    testing and editing recipes

•    writing copy for the website and, when the time comes, the book

•    helping to enlist a publisher

•    helping to publicise the appeal.