By Sean Moriarty

A local charity that provides free birthday cakes to people in direct provision is looking for volunteer bakers to help it cope with unprecedented demand.

Consider It Cakes is a national organisation that provides free cakes to those in emergency accommodation and direct provision centres and they've been busier than even following the arrival of hundreds of Ukrainians into the town.

It was launched in the Killarney just before the pandemic set it in. Local volunteers have provided, on average, one cake a week since the project was launched.

They supply cakes into various direct provision centres in the town including Atlas House on Park Road.

“Since the Ukrainian refugees arrived we are are baking up to five cakes a week,” local volunteer Mary O’Carroll told the Killarney Advertiser. “We need more people to help. They don’t have to be professional bakers. I am just a hobby baker and I get a lot of help from my 13-year-old daughter Faye.”

Local volunteers can contact national coordinator Femhe Caffery who will assign baking tasks to available volunteers.