**What is MamaBake?**
MamaBake is a movement of group, big batch baking mothers and is proudly listed as a Pioneer/Protagonist of the
Collaborative Consumption movement.
Mothers come together in small groups in their local neighbourhood to group, big batch bake and go home with a range of meals cooked for the week!
**Benefits of MamaBake**
MamaBake:
*Gives Mum well needed time off cooking a family meal every night,
*Creates a tight knit support network at a time when women need it the most
*Demonstrates to MamaBaker children (the little ones who attend MamaBake sessions) the power and glory of community in action as well as exposing them to new foods, how it's made etc.
*Allows the passing on and sharing of kitchen wisdom and recipes.
**MamaBake: Now**
MamaBake has been running for three years and gathered significant momentum both online and importantly, in real life - effecting very real and positive change to the mothering community. To date, Karen and Michelle have spent thousands of hours running and managing the thriving, and rapidly growing, MamaBake movement as a hobby and a passion whilst raising small children at home. A fairly standard WordPress template has been used as a big batch baking resource portal and to enable in real life groups so as to :
1/Bring mothers together online to MamaBake in real life and
2/Provide the resources they need to big batch bake together.
**MamaBake: the Future**
MamaBake is now at a crucial stage in it's development where it is too big for a standard blog template. As the movement grows and word spreads far and wide of the benefits of group, big batch baking, more and more mothers are coming to MamaBake seeking in-real-life connection and more resources to enable them to MamaBake. The MamaBake infrastructure needs to drastically change so that the movement can fulfil it's true potential.
To do this, a more complex website is required that, through varying levels of membership, will allow women to:
*Find other women in their immediate locale with whom to form a MamaBake group,
*Create online MamaBake groups with other women with whom they can share recipes, kitchen wisdom and tips,
*Collect and personalise MamaBake's big batch baking resources
*Find and book commercial kitchen space (for MamaBake sessions) and cookery classes in their local area.
MamaBake needs to also become a viable business model so that Michelle and Karen can continue to focus their efforts on managing a movement of this scale.
**Budget**
Website creation: $24,200
Pozible fees $2,800
**MamaBake's Capabilities**