eteaket helped at the Edinburgh Breakfast Club’s Big Breakfast event on 27 April in support of local charities “Fischy Music” and “Tong-Len”. Despite the very early start, the venue was at capacity with 80 attendees all enjoying breakfast and loose-leaf tea. Over £2,000 was raised for these very good causes. Please click the links to find out more about these very inspiring charities.

The Rotary Club of Edinburgh Breakfast normally meet at The Dunstane House Hotel, 4 West Coates, EH12 5JQ at 7.10am every Tuesday. Click here for more info. 

We’re launching our Knitting Circle on Thursday 15 Oct (5.30pm till 7pm). Our initial aim is to knit goodies to put with other gifts into shoeboxes as part of Operation Christmas Child.

Operation Christmas Child is the UK’s largest children’s Christmas appeal and has been running for over 19 years (it’s organised by the Samaritan’s Purse). They work with local churches and charities overseas to ensure that gift-filled shoeboxes get delivered by hand to children who need it most in Africa, Eastern Europe and Central Asia (regardless of their background or beliefs).

If you would like to get involved, please just turn up on Thurs 15th around 5.30pm (or contact us at hello@eteaket.co.uk if you have any queries). We’re aiming to meet every fortnight after that in the run up to Christmas.

We had a great time in eteaket on Friday raising money for Macmillan Cancer Support as part of the World’s Biggest Coffee Morning. Thanks to all our customers who bought raffle tickets and to our amazing staff who donated their tips for the day.

A big thank you to everyone who came along to the SuperJam charity tea dance at Meadowbank on 13 August (including my mum who helped pour about 300 cups of tea). Our new Edinburgh Blend was a big hit with the guests – our dancing skills were sadly lacking but never mind!

Thanks to SuperJam and The Pilmeny Development Project for all their hard work in orgainising the event. We’ll keep you posted on future tea dances.

eteaket is again supporting SuperJam at the next Tea Party on Thursday 13 August at Meadowbank Stadium (www.superjam.co.uk/blog) . We’ll be launching our Edinburgh Blend in front of an expected crowd of 200 discerning elderly guests. Our Edinburgh Blend is available from today in our cafe at 41 Frederick St, Edinburgh. We’ll let you know how we get on and whether we manage to avoid line dancing this time.

eteaket went Tea-potty for Save the Children week (27 April to 3 May) by donating £1.50 of every one of our tea & cake offers to the charity. The funds raised will go towards Save the Children’s largest ever campaign to highlight how easy it can be to save a child’s life. 10 million children die each year before their 5th birthday – Save the Children are working flat out to change that. We really appreciate our customers’ support last week to help this campaign.

We have now joined forces with SuperJam and are helping to support their charity tea parties. At the start of April we served a selection of our teas to around 200 elderly people at Meadowbank Stadium in Edinburgh- the photos below show Fraser Doherty (aka The Jam Boy) sampling some eteaket tea and some of the guests dancing the afternoon away.

We’re already looking forward to the next party. Please contact us if you are interested in helping in some way.

Check out Fraser’s blog here – I’m loving the rubber tea cosy.

Fraser Doherty (aka The Jam Boy) sampling some eteaket tea

eteaket tea spread

Over 200 people enjoyed the event

Dancing the afternoon away

eteaket Tea Party in full swing 

eteaket Tea Toddy, Vodka Martea-Ni and Jazz Band

Very psychic tea leaf reader

            Big thanks to everyone for coming.