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Most people wouldn’t take being called a “head bitch” as a compliment, but Warkworth teenager Pippa Plummer is wearing the title with pride.
Pippa, 15, is the founder of the Warkworth chapter of a national network of bakers called Good Bitches Baking.
Their mission is to show kindness to people in their communities who are having a tough time.
They do this by baking and delivering homemade cakes, biscuits and other treats on a weekly basis.
The recipients to date have been the Warkworth Wellsford Hospice, Women’s Centre Rodney and the Selwyn Foundation.
“When I heard about Good Bitches on National Radio I thought it would be cool to get involved,” Pippa says. “But there wasn’t a chapter here, so I decided to set one up.”
The Warkworth branch, which covers from Puhoi to Wellsford, was officially launched in May and already has 20 volunteer bakers and three delivery drivers on its books.
Pippa is the youngest ‘head bitch’ of the 22 chapters across NZ.
“It’s exciting to be involved with the community like this and we have had some wonderful feedback.
People seem very excited to receive the baking and very grateful,” she says.
The bakers are provided with special boxes to pack their cakes, loaves, muffins and biscuits in, and all ingredients are listed on the outside for those with special dietary requirements. On the reverse side, bakers’ can write a little message such as, “Baking made with love”.
Pippa is keen to recruit more bakers, as well as more drivers, so the baking can be spread more widely throughout the district.
She would also like to hear from any organisation that could use “a little sweetness” in their lives.
Pippa can be contacted at: warkworth@gbb.org.nz
