Last weekend, #NZBloggers and I hosted our first and fabulous Pink Ribbon Brunch to raise funds for the Breast Cancer Foundation.

Featured: Krispy Kreme Finger Bun Doughnuts. Photo credit: Vicki Watson (Instagram). 

As some of you may know, in my spare time (alongside running my blog and social pages), I also volunteer for NZBloggers, a group encouraging, supporting and enabling networking for bloggers and influencers in New Zealand. Each month we host events for bloggers by bloggers. 

This month, we hosted an extra special event where everyone was invited to help us fundraise for the Breast Cancer Foundation. Welcome to our Pink Ribbon Brunch! It was a great success and we have since raised over $2,000 for the Breast Cancer Foundation. Link to our page is here.

Our Pink Ribbon Brunch was open to EVERYONE, not just bloggers. It was not like our usual monthly sit-down #NZBloggers brunches. It was interactive, with grazing tables, a help yourself station, plus we had pop-up stalls where you could try on clothing, get your hair/makeup done and/or get a facial. 

ME! with Otti & Olli’s Pink Ribbon Croquembouche!
Photo Credit: Genie of Bunny Eats Design (Website and Instagram). 

Tickets were $10 and included unlimited tea, coffee and cold drinks, plus nibbles (and by nibbles it meant delicious baked goods – sweet and savoury), plus a range of goodies to take home at the end. To help fundraise, we also had H A M P E R S galore – attendees were encouraged to buy tickets, as well as those who could not attend as you did not have to be present at our brunch to be into win!

Cannot thank our generous sponsors enough who have been in contact with me leading up to our Pink Ribbon Brunch – we love you all, and we would not have been able to do it without you!

A HUGE shout out to the following companies:

Drinks

Almighty Juices – provided three of their delicious juices – Beetroot, Blackcurrant & Ginger, Orange, Apple & Mango and Guava, Lime & Basil, which is my favourite!

Almo Almond Milk – one of our dairy-free milk options for our brunch, which was an absolute hit!

Happy Happy Soy Boy Soy Milk – another dairy-free milk option for the day… will definitely be buying this milk in the future!

Photo Credit: Vicki Watson (Instagram). 

Lewis Road Creamery – provided bottles of their Fresh Strawberry Milk – we offered these at our drinks station. All of us (especially the kids) loved them!

Moccona – provided jars of their coffee – we offered to make coffees for those who attended the brunch. We also put some in our hampers.

Photo Credit: Vicki Watson (Instagram). 

No Ugly – provided their Plum and Cucumber wellness tonics for our drinks (and also for our hampers).

Photo Credit: Vicki Watson (Instagram). 

For The Better Good – provided three boxes of their water bottles for our drinks and help yourself station. 

Graze

180 Degree Crackers – provided crackers for our graze and hampers.

Barker’s of Geraldine – provided their strawberry syrup for our pancake station, their plum and raspberry jams for our bagel station and a selection of their products for our hampers.

Bread & Butter Bakery – provided us with their sourdough loaves, quinoa sourdough loaves, gluten free loaf and cinnamon rolls for our graze and 30 bagels for our bagel station.

Photo Credit: Vicki Watson (Instagram). 

CocoMaNuts – provided two jars of their coconut peanut butter – one for our bagel station and one for a hamper.

Culleys – provided corn chips for our graze, and corn chips and hot sauce for our hampers.

Dole New Zealand – provided pineapples (thanks to Genie of Bunny Eats Design who cut up the pineapples for our fruit kebabs!) for our pancake station and bananas (which we added to one of our hampers and at our help yourself station).

Food Snob – provided a selection of their cheeses, crackers, olives and peppers stuffed with cream cheese for our graze.

Fortune Cookies NZ – provided custom made, double dipped chocolate pink fortune cookies with individual messages inside. We displayed these at our help yourself station – a bit of wisdom for the finale of our event!

I Love Food Co – provided sausage rolls and salted caramel pies – the best part about these products were all we had to do was cook them in the oven!

Krispy Kreme – provided their limited edition finger bun doughnuts, plus their strawberry iced and original glazed doughnuts. They also provided three vouchers to go into our hampers.

Photo Credit: Vicki Watson (Instagram). 

Lewis Road Creamery – provided tubs of their spreadable butter, which we used at our bagel station, for the cheese scones, and for the breads on our graze.

Line’s Knækbrød – provided their delicious Danish crackerbread for our graze and to be in our hampers too.

Maison Therese – provided us with many of their products – you may have spotted their relishes and chutneys on our graze, plus their products were featured in almost all of our hampers.

Photo Credit: Genie of Bunny Eats Design (Website and Instagram). 

Marcel’s Pancakes – provided us with their delicious happy pancakes and petite pancakes, available at our pancake station. We also put some of their petite pancakes in the hampers.

Otti & Olli – Susan of Otti & Olli messaged us on Instagram saying she would like to donate a Croquembouche for our event! It was EPIC! And it tasted delicious too. The best part was that the filling was Whittaker’s dark chocolate mousse! Check it out below.

Paneton Bakery – provided us with mini versions of their danishes, croissants and savoury delights. The best part about these products were all we had to do was cook them in the oven!

Penati – donated boxes of their crackers which we used on our graze and in a hamper.

Petal Cupcakes – provided mini chocolate raspberry cupcakes and donated a $30 voucher for one of our hampers.

Serious Food Co – donated cute packets of their coconut and vanilla popcorn, which we displayed at our help yourself station.

Photo Credit: Vicki Watson (Instagram). 

The Collective – provided tubs of their new dulce de leche and chai spiced pear yoghurt for our pancake station.

Queen Anne Chocolates – donated their delicious dark chocolate raspberry marshmallow fish, which we displayed at our help yourself station.

Whittaker’s – donated a box of their creamy milk sante bars, which we displayed at our help yourself station, and these went into our hampers as well.

Zany Zeus – provided us with two tubs of their primo cream cheese, which were placed at our bagel station.

Photo Credit: Genie of Bunny Eats Design (Website and Instagram). 

Hampers

Baron Hasselhoff’s – donated two boxes of their beautiful chocolates – was eyeing up their chocolate truffles all day!

Crafters Union Wine – donated bottles of their Rose wine!

Duck Island Ice Cream – donated single scoop ice cream vouchers.

Eau Thermale Avene – donated bags filled with a selection of their skin products, plus a beautiful silk pink eye mask came with each bag!

Fresh As – donated their freeze dried fruit powders, slices and recipe cards.

Generosity Coffee – donated two bags of their coffee beans and capsules.

Jenny’s Kitchen Tamarind Chutney – if there is one chutney you eat forever, make it Jenny’s. I have been eating their tamarind chutney for years now and it is still my favourite. Donated their chutney for our hampers.

Little Bird Organics – donated their delicious grawnola, macaroons and good cookies.

Mexico – donated a $100 Mexico voucher for one of our hampers.

Molly Woppy – donated many boxes of their yummy cookies for our hampers. We also had a bowl of their cookies at our drinks station… for people to take one after receiving their coffee/tea!

Remarkable Chocolate Co – donated their beautiful chocolate ‘bark’, Easter bunnies (my favourite ones!) and chocolate blocks.

Sacred Hill – donated two bottles of their Rose wine.

Something to Crow About – donated three packets of their delicious muesli!

Stir Your Milk – donated their latte and hot chocolate boxes and milk powders.

The Three Words – donated a beautiful bouquet of pink flowers which was part of our “Pretty In Pink” hamper. Also donated a beautiful pink cake which was raffled at the end of our brunch.

Photo Credit: Vicki Watson (Instagram). 

Tio Pablo – donated a special hamper just for us! This was our “Mexican Fiesta” hamper which we drew at our brunch.

uyoc – donated two cute Frank Green pink keep cups.

Wendy’s NZ – donated vouchers for their new Baconator burger combos to be in our hampers!

Thank you SO much to everyone who came along and got behind the cause by attending our brunch, buying raffle tickets or donating to our Pink Ribbon Brunch page. We are so overwhelmed by your generosity! We also cannot wait to host another event!

If you would like to attend upcoming #NZBloggers and #BRUNCHCLUB events, join our Facebook group to ensure you don’t miss out. There are some great things being planned for 2019…

^ Georgie x