Ragamuffin Lovin’

Fitzbillies release a new muffin in the name of RAG.

by Emily Handley

This article is 13 years old

Tuesday February 21 2012, 1:00am

This year's Cambridge RAG Week, from 25th February to 3rd March, promises to be bigger and better than ever, with Fitzbillies launching the charity 'Ragamuffin' for the course of the week.

Kicking off with a carnival, the week will include some much-loved favourites such as Formal Freedom, RAG club nights and charity smokers.

Full of original as well as these more traditional events, activities lined up range from sky-diving and a ceilidh to a wine tasting, donut eating competition and Come Dine With Me competition.

Evidently, the RAG week timetable is jam-packed. Not only are colleges co-operating with the RAG Committee's efforts to ensure the week's success, with Clare, Fitzwilliam, Trinity and Magdalene being the first to offer up their dining experience to Formal Freedom but the businesses of Cambridge are keen to offer a helping hand.

Fitzbillies, for one week only, will be selling the 'Ragamuffin', created exclusively to celebrate RAG Week .

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The definition of chocoholic heaven, with a chocolate sponge layer studded with coloured marshmallows and pieces of home-made fudge and clotted cream, the muffins will be available from Friday 24th February until Sunday 4th March.

£1 of the £2 muffin will go directly to the RAG Week charity, Save the Children, providing a perfect excuse for students to break any Lent resolutions almost as soon as they've been made and a sugary means of powering through any essay-crisis.

Tim Hayward, the manager, explained that his daughter Liberty was the mastermind behind this delicious endeavour. 'We'd been working at the back of the shop trying to come up with various ideas, and my wife and daughter were brought into consult on the process. My daughter insisted that we use fudge, so we've made the muffins with home-made clotted cream and home-made fudge.

'We hope it will be a massively indulgent treat for students, so they can use it to fortify themselves while studying. We get a lot of requests to do things for charity and we're more than happy to be involved in RAG Week this year.'

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