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The Big Chocolate Tea Party 2011
| Date: | April 2011 |
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| Location: | Homes across the UK |
We have raised more than £17,000!
Hundreds of you boiled your kettles, dusted off your teapots and baked some chocolate goodies for Big Chocolate Tea Parties taking place across the UK (and even some overseas!). You got together with your friends, family, colleagues, schools and community to help make this the best Big Chocolate Tea Party yet!
Ex-pat Gemma Wallace from Greenacres, Adelaide, is getting behind the campaign as one of her best friends from England stayed at the charity's Guilford Street 'Home from Home' for a few weeks whilst her daughter was in intensive care. She raised A$100.
Crista Webber raised $170 and their Big Chocolate Tea Party in Harrogate.
Local Southrepps,Norfolk, Post Office Coffee Shop owner, Lorraine Geary said:
"I heard about The Sick Children's Trust through a friend of mine and thought it was just such a wonderful charity. It is an invaluable service and one I felt instantly passionate about."
We are delighted that so many of you supported The Big Chocolate Tea Party campaign this year and made it such a fantastic success once again; we literally couldn't do it without you, our loyal supporters. The money you have raised from your tea parties will make such a huge difference to the thousands of children and families we help each year.
A special thank you also goes out to our wonderful partners Artistry in Cocoa and Ringtons Tea for supplying us with goodies for our Supporter Packs.
PS. Don't forget to keep up to date with all our campaigns and activities throughout the year on Twitter and Facebook.
Ten utterly proven and true chocolate facts!
1.In 1842 Cadbury's in England created the world's first chocolate bar.
2. Chocolate manufacturers use 20% of the world's peanuts and 40% of the world's almonds.
3. The first chocolate house was opened in London in 1657. Chocolate cost 10-15 shillings per pound and was considered a beverage for the elite class.
4. Eating just one chocolate chip will give an average adult the required energy to walk 150 feet.
4. Eating just one chocolate chip will give an average adult the required energy to walk 150 feet.
5. Chocolate really is "The Food Of The Gods" - the cacao tree is a species of the genus theobroma, which translates into "food of the gods".
6.The biggest chocolate sculpture ever made was a 4,484 lb, 10 foot high Easter egg, constructed in Melbourne, Australia.
7. If all the Toblerones sold in one year were laid end to end, they would stretch for 62,000km equivalent to the circumference of the Earth.
8. In Holland, the feast of St. Nicholas or Santa Claus is celebrated on December 6th. The children put their clogs outside at night so Santa can fill them up with chocolate money.
9. The melting point of cocoa butter is just below human body temperature - this is why chocolate melts in your mouth.
10. More than 2,000 years ago, Mayan Indians in Mexico and Central America used ground cocoa beans to create a drink. Before consuming the beans, they used them as a form of currency. They only ground the beans when they were worn out.
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