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Yorkshire's Big Brew

Every brew, bake or butty helps save lives in Yorkshire

By taking part in Yorkshire’s Big Brew, you can bring new treatments and cures to people with cancer in Yorkshire.

You choose the time, date and place of your tea party or coffee morning. We’ll send you a free fundraising pack with everything you need to make planning easy and your event look great on the day.

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A Taste of Bettys for Yorkshire’s Big Brew

To help make your Big Brew extra special, everyone who signs up to host will receive an exclusive Bettys lemon tart recipe in their free fundraising pack.

For more than 100 years, Bettys has been bringing people together over handcrafted bakes, afternoon teas and memorable dining experiences. 

It's the perfect way to add a taste of one of Yorkshire's most iconic brands to your event while raising funds for life-saving cancer research.

How to join the Big Brew

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Pop the kettle on, put out your bunting and get ready to raise funds for life-saving cancer research for people in Yorkshire. You can brew it!

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Ask guests to donate to your JustGiving page or you can pay in their contributions. Hosts that raise over £100 will receive a wooden baking spoon to say thank you!

"Bettys Cookery School is proud to be supporting Yorkshire Cancer Research by creating this beautiful lemon tart for Yorkshire's Big Brew. It's the perfect treat for a coffee morning or summery lunch, and a fantastic way to fundraise for research that helps more people in our region, including myself, survive cancer."

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Free and fab-brew-lous fundraising pack

Sign up and get a free pack including:

  • Balloons and bunting
  • A box of Yorkshire Tea
  • Collection box
  • Cake flags and labels
  • Posters
  • And more to make your Big Brew a success!

Hosts that raise over £100 will also be sent a wooden Big Brew baking spoon as a thank you for helping save lives in Yorkshire.

The Big Brew fundraising pack contents are laid out. There's various sheets of paper including "Create your own cake flags" and a sticker sheet. There's a box of Yorkshire tea, blue pen,  three blue balloons and a cardboard collection box also visible.

How your support helps

By hosting a Big Brew, you will help save lives right here in Yorkshire, in your town, city or community.

Every £15 you raise can fund home screening kits for people in Yorkshire to help detect cancer earlier, when it’s often easier to treat.

£50 can fund a new prostate cancer trial for thousands of men in Yorkshire to explore how combining PSA blood tests and MRI scans can save lives.

£100 can fund ground-breaking new genetic research that aims to prevent cancer for thousands of people in Yorkshire. 

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Every 15 minutes someone in Yorkshire is told they have cancer

These are just some of the ways your fundraising can help save lives, so pop the kettle on and let’s brew it for Yorkshire!