Pancake Day is a fundraising campaign that supports grassroots projects helping disadvantaged Western Australians.
Each year hundreds of individuals, school, community, church and business groups around WA register their event with us and cook and sell pancakes, helping us make WA a better place to live.
Pancake Day is designed to be lots of fun. It follows a Christian tradition of eating pancakes on Shrove Tuesday, the day before the season of Lent, leading up to Easter. As it was traditional to 'fast' during Lent and give up eating good things, pancakes were cooked for a great feast to use up all the eggs and fat. This is also where the festival 'Mardi Gras' (meaning 'fat Tuesday') comes from.
The Uniting Church runs Pancake Day following the example of Jesus, who shared meals with all kinds of people. This simple act of cooking a pancake and offering hospitality gives practical expression to the Uniting Church's core values of community service, social justice and inclusion of the other.
Money raised for Pancake Day supports the WA community through the caring work of the Uniting Church. This diverse work includes support for homeless people, disadvantaged children and young people, for older Australians and for people living in rural and remote areas; emergency relief; financial counselling; crisis accommodation; services for people with disabilities; and much more.
Funds raised though Pancake Day have a huge impact on smaller grassroots projects which may struggle to receive funding from other sources.
The Uniting Church helps ALL kinds of people in need, regardless of race, religion or culture.
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