One of Tenby’s Cancer Research Shop volunteers has put her baking skills to the max as part of the national Stand Up To Cancer campaign.

Maureen Lower MBE who lives in Jameston and is a volunteer at the Tenby shop located at Tudor Square has been making and selling real traditional Christmas cakes to aid various charities for the past 25 years.

Today (Friday) as part of the Stand Up To Cancer campaign, the Tenby shop has been doing it’s bit with the help of Maureen’s baking skills, by selling various cakes at a stall in the store, with all the proceeds raised from the sale of the cakes going to Cancer Research UK.

Fellow volunteers Emelie and Hede have been collecting outside the Tenby shop all day.

The fundraising forms part of Maureen’s festive bake-off, as she has been making special Christmas cakes to order to raise more money for the cancer charity.

Maureen who lived in Berlin for 42 years and started volunteering at the Tenby shop last December, has been dubbed ‘Marvellous Maureen’ by her co-workers for her charity work.

“I lost one of my sisters to cancer last year and another sister is currently fighting a battle, so the charity work is the least I can do,” she said, with the most Christmas cakes Maureen has made in one year being 150, using approximately 35kg of flour, 42kg mixed fruit, 360 eggs and 22kg of brown sugar!

Maureen’s cakes are bursting with moist fruit, dripping with light brown sugar and butter, generously coated with marzipan and icing, and traditional Christmas decorations, to make it an ideal Christmas present.

You can place your order now (with payment up front to cover the cost of the ingredients) for collection come mid-November.

Cakes come priced at £6.50 for a small size, £10.50 for medium, and £16.50 for large.

Maureen, who was awarded the MBE from Her Majesty the Queen in 2003 and the German Medal of Merit, is already well into baking her latest batch of Christmas cakes, which are selling well she said, but if you would like to order one please pop into the Cancer Research Shop in Tenby or ‘phone them on 01834 845451.

Alternatively you can contact Maureen directly on 07967222939 or via email at [email protected]