Cake shed helps fund first family summer trip

A cake shed business has been credited with helping a single mother to afford holidays with her sons.

Sarah Day, from Gnosall, Staffordshire, started a baking business, Baking at No42, during lockdown in 2020 after being furloughed from her care home job.

Although it enabled her to cover bills, she earned little extra, leading her to wonder whether she should continue the business or go back into full time work.

A social media scroll led her to discover another baker who had set up their own cake shed and she decided that could work for her.

"It wasn't till June last year I took the gamble. I brought myself a shed, painted it, made it look all pretty and just went for it," she said.

The shed is now open on Friday's, Saturdays and Sundays.

It is set up with cameras, an honesty box and a QR code for those to pay who do not have cash.

"I'm so lucky with the village we live in pretty much everybody knows everybody and its trustworthy."

Her venture has proven so popular people turn up in their pyjamas to get a hold of her baked goods.

She has booked her first summer holiday abroad for her two boys which she said she would not have been able to do without the shed.

"I've had customers come back, the same customers nearly every single week and I've seen new faces," she said.

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