By Emma Osborne-Laverty, Radford Awareness and Service (RAS) Captain

Last Friday, RAS hosted a cupcake day ahead of the RSPCA's Million Paws Walk that took place on Sunday.

The RSPCA provides animal care, educates the public, advocates for change in policies, have inspectors who prosecute animal cruelty complaints, and conducts scientific research, to name but a few of the important tasks they are responsible for.

The RAS committee decided to hold a cupcake day to support the RSPCA's important work. This event gave us the ‘purrfect’ reason to get out our cooking utensils and bake to fight animal cruelty.

A competition was held for the best decorated cupcakes, with the winner taking home two tickets to Jamberoo Action Park. Year 8 student, Elsie Osborne showed some amazing decorative skills and was awarded first place. Congratulations Elsie!

More than 400 cupcakes were sold during lunchtime, helping RAS to raise more than $1000 for the RSPCA – well beyond the expectations of the RAS committee.

Thank you to all students who donated their time and ingredients to make these incredible cupcakes.