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Swindon cake maker needs your votes at The Pitch

West Swindon based entrepreneur Samantha Whittingham is aiming to make it to the fi nals of a national marketing award in October, and you can
help her win extra prizes online.
Earlier this year she launched an in- Explaining the inspiration for her ceive intensive coach-
novative online cake and baking shop business which has been growing ing and mentoring
Little Miss CakeMaker.com which is faster than she expected, Samantha before demonstrating
full of user friendly ideas aimed at said: “Ordering cakes online can be a what they’ve learnt
making it easy for customers to create long winded process based on tradi- in a second selection
and order cakes to their own design. tional and old-fashioned ways. process. The top 30
Samantha delivers cakes topped “I’ve created a cake shop which will then attend The
off with a picture or logo within three is interactive, fun, and easy to use. Pitch fi nal in Bristol on
days of ordering to addresses within People expect to buy pizzas and coff ee 23 October.
25 miles of Swindon. She also sells that suit their taste, now you can do She said: “It was just
cake making supplies and her unique the same when buying cake.” amazing to hear I was
baking kits where customers adapt Samantha will attend a business in the top 100 busi-
and personalise ingredients from a boot camp with other contestants in nesses in the UK.
range of easy to select options. Manchester on 18 September to re- “The boot camps
will be challenging fun;
it’s great to get some
Locally grown W sourced foodV
Vegetablesv breadv preservesv national exposure at
gifts and moreV such an early stage.
Cafe serving drinksv cakes I’m a local business at
and hot mealsV the moment but it’s
Free parkingV
always been my aim
feel-good to develop a national Samantha celebrating the new look Link magazine
with corporate cupcakes.
brand. This is an amaz-
local food ing opportunity to take Photo: Richard Wintle Calyxpix.com
my business to the next
Open Wednesday L SundayV through to the fi nal stages but
The Ridgewayv level. There are some great entries, so contestants can win thousands of
Chiseldonv SN4 0HT Flowers W it will be a tough battle but I want to
Just off the A346v close vintage gifts go as far as I can.” pounds worth of prizes via a public
to the petrol station Find out more at: littlemisscake- vote. Support Samantha at:

wwwVthreetreesfarmVcoVuk 01793 741436 maker.com thepitchuk.com/shortlist/little-miss-
The judges will decide who goes
cake-maker/701
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