Welcome to our Bake for Cats Competition page! 🐱✨

We're thrilled to celebrate World Bake Day on 17 May by running this baking competition. We want everyone to have fun, get baking and know that by taking part in this activity you’ll be raising vital funds to support cats and kittens in need. This virtual event showcases your fantastic baking skills and unique baking style in various categories. By participating, we hope you get to enjoy a new challenge, eat your tasty bakes but also helping us raise vital funds for Cats Protection Ely & District.

The ‘Best in Show’ winner will receive a hamper of baking supplies plus some treats for your cat too!

Thank you for helping us to make a better life for cats, because life is better with cats (and baked goods!).

How it works:

Round one – Support your local Cats Protection

We will post three categories across the week 25 to 31 May. On the Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. These categories are…

- Best Cat Shaped Cookie. (Whether you want to make paw-shaped biscuits, ice a design or go for the classic cat silhouette any type of biscuit or cookie will be perfect for this challenge)

- Most Colourful Cat Cake (We know cats come in all shapes, colours and sizes so choose a cake of your choice and go to town with colourful décor)

- Best Big Cat Bake - Can you transform your bake to look like a tiger or lion? Perhaps you can take inspiration from the big cats in nature and feel inspired for your baking. Spots, stripes, whiskers and paws your cake might include any of these features

To enter please comment under the competition post for your chosen category and post a photo of your bake. The winner will be selected by the team. Likes and comments will be taken into account so please get involved and like/react to your favourite bakes and ask family and friends to do so too. There is a suggested donation of £3 per entry which can be made on this Just Giving Page. You can also enter for free. The winners will be announced the following week in one Facebook post and have their bake featured for everyone to see.

Round two - regional round

As we are running this competition regionally across East Anglia winners of each category will be entered into ‘Best In Show’. The winner of this round will receive a lovely hamper full of baking supplies and essentials plus a few treats for your inspiration too! Treats for you and your moggy.

Terms and conditions

1. The Bake for Cats Competition will take place from 25 May for seven days. With the categories going live on Monday 25, Wednesday 27 and Saturday 30 May.

2. To enter comment with a photo of your bake for the chosen category.

3. Please note, any bakes that might feature imagery that does not meet with our welfare standards, cats in clothing, including bows and fancy collars, will be excluded from the competition and hidden from public view in our comments.

4. Cats Protection has the right to reject an entry to the Bake for Cats Competition for any reason.

5. Although there is a suggested donation of £3 per entry via this JustGiving page you do not have to donate to participate, you can enter for free.

6. Each category will be live to enter from the day it is posted to the 31st. However you can make your optional donation in advance of entering. Once the competition is finished original posts of categories will be updated to advise of this and to ensure no additional entries are posted after the winner is chosen.

7. The three winners for each category will be announced by a post on the Facebook page the following week. These will be entered into the regional round of ‘Best In Show’ which will be announced at the end of the following week via the Facebook page.

8. We reserve the right to use your entry photo and your first name when we announce the winner for each category and the overall winner.

9. If the overall winner cannot be contacted or does not claim the regional round prize within 21 days of notification, we reserve the right to withdraw the prize from the winner and offer this to the 2nd place entrant.

10. There can be only one winner for each category.

11. The results of each category are final and no correspondence will be entered into.

12. All funds raised will go to Ely & District Cats Protection. Registered Charity 203644 (England & Wales) SC037711 (Scotland) listed as a section 167 institution by the charity commission of Northern Ireland.

15. Any money received after the end date of insert end date, including late entries after the categories have closed, will be treated as a donation to help fund the work of Cats Protection and will not be refundable.

16. Cats Protection respects and is committed to protecting your privacy. The personal information you provide will remain private and will only be used for the purposes of the competition unless you give permission otherwise.

Our privacy policy explains how we collect and use your information and can be found here: cats.org.uk/terms/terms-privacy

Cats Protection help more cats than any other organisation and we want to help millions more. We are a dedicated community of passionate employees, volunteers, supporters and partners, working together to make life better for millions of cats and the people who care for them.

We are the voice of cats in society and we speak up for their protection.

We’re working towards a society where every cat is treated with kindness and respect.

Making a better life for cats, because life is better with cats.

Find out more: www.cats.org.uk