#VolunteersMakeWaves! 🌊🌊🌊

Volunteers are the backbone of our communities, not only during #NVW2025, but all year around. 💙🧡

🎉 Join us in celebrating Toronto’s volunteers this #NVW2025: bit.ly/nvw25 (😉🍕)

#welovevolunteers #torontovolunteers

Happy National Volunteer Week, Toronto! 🎉

This year, we celebrate volunteers creating waves of positive change across our communities!

Keep an eye on our socials for new data and recognition initiatives! 😉🍕

#nvw2025 #volunteersmakewaves #volunteercanada #welovevolunteers

• Become a volunteer at any of our 7 centers.

• Say thank you to a volunteer if you visit any of our centers this week.

• If you're a Braille Institute volunteer, post a photo and tell us about your experience!

Tag us and use #WeLoveVolunteers #BrailleInstitute

Thank you!

Pink background with pie chart overlayed. Above the pie chart is the title "how many hours each month do you spend volunteering for GBB?". The pie chart's largest section is mint with the label "2-6" hours, about 5/8. Second largest is >2 hours, about 1/3, then 6-10 hours. The smallest slices of the pie are 11-20, <30 and 21-30 hours. Below the chart is the GBB logo in navy.

We know amongst busy lives it can be hard to find time to volunteer, so recently we asked our Good Bitches "How many hours per month do you spend volunteering for GBB?"

Our survey found that many spend 2-6 hours spreading kindness to our recipients 🍩 🍭

#WeLoveVolunteers #Manaakitanga

Collage of photo photos with an aqua border. Text above photo reads "Thank you Good Bitches". Top left photo are two GBs from our Wellington Chapter after receiving an award from Mary Potter Hospice. Top right is a photo from a volunteer day, featuring 3 GBs and baking on a table in front of them. Bottom left is a GB from Dunedin receiving an award from a man. Bottom right is a GB making cookie batter with Prison bake. Bottom centre is the GBB logo.

Today is Thank You Day - and who better to thank than our Good Bitches!

Ngā mihi to our bakers, deliverers, Head Bitches, roster queens, funders, supporters and all (the list is endless!) who have contributed to Good Bitches Baking over the last 9+ years 🥹💛

#KindnessIsContagious #WeLoveVolunteers

Collage of 5 photos with aqua background, top left is a Pākehā woman smiling, holding out a cupcake to the camera. to the right is a screenshot of the GBB research report summary. Bottom left is a photo of a lemon slice in a white box. To the right is a photo of a group of people smiling in a commercial kitchen with 3 lots of baking in front. Below is a screen shot of the home page of the GBB website.

What a year 2023 has been for GBB!

Across Aotearoa we spread kindness countless times to people doing it tough.

Ngā mihi to all our volunteers ✨

#WeLoveVolunteers #SpreadKindness

Navy background with small GBB logo at the bottom. Photo in the middle is of a magazine, with an article titles 'GBB Baking'. There is a photo of a tart, and 3 of volunteers delivering baking. The article is about Titiro Whakamua Teen Parent School Hutt Valley also coming on as bakers with the Wellington chapter, after being recipients for a couple years.

We love it when our recipients get inspired to bake - especially baking with us! Titiro Whakamua Hutt Valley Teen Parent School have received baking from our Wellington chapter since early 2021 and this year joined us as bakers too 🍪

#WeLoveVolunteers #GoodBitchesBaking

Screenshot of article in Essence Magazine. "Happiness Through Baking" with images of baking in white boxes and Timaru Head Bitch Richard.

Our Timaru Head Bitch, Richard, chatted with Essence Mag earlier this month and you can read the interview here! 📖👓

We love this quote: “So if we can show there is kindness out there and actually encourage others, it’s an easy way to spread a little happiness.” 😊

#WeLoveVolunteers #Manaakitanga