Research Bakers
Group Bake Off
Organise a bake off with your community group, bringing them together for a great cause, and win a visit from Great British Bake Off finalist, Josh Smalley.
Research Bakers
Show off your baking and science skills while supporting life-changing medical research!
Research Bakers combines science and baking to make a real difference for charity, raising awareness and raising money to support life-changing medical research into overlooked and underfunded health conditions.
Become a Research Baker... just like Josh!
Josh Smalley, finalist of The Great British Bake Off and chemistry researcher, has teamed up with us to also become a proud Research Baker, raising awareness of how vital science and medical research is.
Enter a baking competition and have your bake judged by Josh
We're still running a baking competition for community groups - and just by entering you'll have your bake judged by Josh himself.
Create a science-themed bake, send us a picture, and Josh will choose the winner.
The winner will receive a visit from Josh to a meeting of their community group.
How to take part
Individual competition
Josh has already judged our individual science bake off competition, with entries closing in September. See the winning bakes on our science bake off page.
See the winning entry!
Community group competition
Get together with your community group and bake to win a visit from Josh.
Details and entry⠀
Every breakthrough starts with research, and we want to celebrate that.Josh Smalley
GBBO finalist, chemistry researcher, and science baker
How your baking makes a difference
Millions of people in the UK and around the world still grapple with debilitating health conditions. Medical research has gone a long way to solving challenges in human health, but there is so much more to do.
That's where you step in.
Your support, through raising funds, or raising awareness, enables the brightest and best scientists to continue vital research into overlooked health conditions, bringing hope to millions. You can read more about the impact our research has had on improving lives in our latest Impact Report.
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Do something amazing and help us to fund research that could make a difference to human health for decades to come.