Cookie walk 2023: “Bake for Betty” 

Help Make the 40th Anniversary of our Cookie Walk The Best One Yet!
In Celebration of Betty Bristol, our Cookie Walk Founder

This year’s Cookie Walk Fundraiser is Friday, December 1. This beloved event is a favorite tradition of ours and many in our community! This event is widely publicized and part of the Geneva Christmas Walk and one of our yummiest fundraisers of the year! Last year was a HUGE success and we are planning on a repeat event.

WE NEED BAKERS to start thinking about which festive cookies you can bake this year. The more we have, the more we can sell! Sign up and indicate how many dozen you are able to bake. Additionally, as you know, we need a slew of volunteers to help build cookie boxes, set up the night before and clean up the night of the walk. Please plan on being a part of this fun event!

Many of you already know what to do – if you plan to help, please sign up here.

You can help by doing any of the following:

• Bake cookies (6, 12, or 18 dozen—or more!).

• Set up for the event on Thursday, November 30, 4:00-8:00pm.

• Work at the event itself on Friday, December 1, 3:45-5:30pm or 5:15-7pm.

• Post flyers around town before the event.

Want to Bake?

• Please make festive holiday cookies (the plain ones, as tasty as they may be, just don’t sell as well).

• Please use recyclable containers. We also have a TON of containers saved from last year that will be in the Common Room starting Sunday, November 5th. Reuse one of these in lieu of buying one!

• Make sure cookies are well-protected and attach the name of the cookies. Please label clearly! If the cookies have nuts please say what kind.

• Drop off your cookies on Thursday, November 30, between 10:30am and 8pm. If you need to arrange a separate time, please email Christine at office@uusg.org.

• Send in a cookie recipe. Molly is going to build a page on our website with a QR code to hand out on the night of the walk. Just another reason to visit our website!

Not a Baker? Set Up for or Help at the Event

• Help with set-up on Thursday, November 30, anytime between 4:00-8:00pm. Set-up includes assembling boxes, setting up tables, arranging the cookies, etc. The tasks are simple, we go at a leisurely pace, and we talk a lot. You may sit or stand as you prefer. Broken cookies may be sampled this night only.

• Help during the event on Friday, December 1, 3:45-5:30pm or 5:15-7pm. Helping at the event itself is a little more hectic, but great fun! There are a couple of sitting jobs, but for most of them you must stand. Tasks include keeping the cookie tables filled with cookies, taping boxes, recycling containers, and handing out gloves.