We need our awesome Western and Eastern Bay of Plenty communities to please provide seven weeks of fresh home baking for hospital staff from February to mid-April 2022.

During this Phase 3 Omicron period, the Tauranga and Whakatane Hospital staff from the Path Lab, Emergency Department (ED) and general hospital ward staff will be going over and beyond to process thousands of Covid tests (Path Lab) and care for many people coming into ED and the hospital wards. During the Omicron outbreak, the hours are expected to be long, intense and stressful.  

As a Bay of Plenty community we want to support these workers on the frontline and show them some love by dropping off fresh home baking on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays for SEVEN weeks from Monday, February 28 to Wednesday, April 13 2022.

We need as many of you as possible to choose a day each week that you can commit to providing baking - either biscuits, cakes, fruit loaf, muffins, scones, tarts or slices. And you can choose gluten and dairy free options.

New World Mount Maunganui have cardboard cake boxes and trays available for purchase from their Deli department which will enable you to place your baking in a container which won't need returning. We are also contacting other supermarkets to see if they can also make their boxes available for purchase.

There will be contactless delivery of the fresh home baking on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays between 9am and 11am at a drop-off bay at both hospitals. We will provide you with the details of each location and a map showing you where to go, once you have completed the form below. Please do not go to the hospital main entrance with your baking.

Please provide your contact details, along with the day of the week you would like to choose.

This is a project run by Rise Up Tauranga in liaison with the Bay of Plenty District Health Board Emergency Planning Team. Updates will be posted to the www.facebook.com/riseuptauranga page.
For more information contact Rosalie Liddle Crawford on rosalie@topshelfdesign.com or phone 0272105483.