Coronavirus: Selsey baker delivers 250 free cupcakes to nurses, doctors and others helping the community

Lucy Scott, who runs her own business called Beauty Bake, found herself with lots of stock left over after several clients cancelled orders for parties and other events, so she resolved to put it to good use.

The mother-of-five put up a post on Facebook asking people to nominate someone who deserved a free cupcake for all the work they were doing.

“I wanted to do something,” she said. “It’s not a lot, but if I can bring a little smile to a few people.”

Lucy said she was not expecting to get such a huge reaction.

“People starting putting all these comments, it went a bit crazy,” she said. “There were so many nominations.”

Lucy busied herself making 250 cupcakes, while her husband printed out all the Facebook comments and stuck them to the cake boxes.

She said people had written ‘such nice things’ and she wanted the nominees to see them.

The next day, she delivered them out to people including nurses and doctors at St Richard’s Hospital, staff at four care homes, school teachers and Asda staff, as well as individuals.

“People weren’t expecting it and they were so thankful, it was lovely,” she said. “It’s a nice little pick me up.”

She has now ordered another 40 boxes and plans to fill them up again with cakes – providing she can get enough eggs from the shops!

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