If you are interested in joining the Cake Decorators’ Guild of NSW, but aren’t sure what to expect, you can go along to one meeting as a non-member before insurance requirements make it necessary for you to join. You don’t even need to be invited you can just show up, however, it is always nice to go along to one of these and know somebody there! Several of our cake friends go to Guild Meetings at Golden West (Quakers Hill) and Sydney (Concord) Branches, so if you would like to go along to one let me know and I will try to make sure myself or another cake friend is there to greet you hello!

Once joined you are not beholden to that branch, membership entitles you to attend any of the Guild meetings anywhere, particularly handy if you can’t make a meeting one month at one place or if you want to go to meetings more often then once every two months.

Other branches include: Armidale, Parkes / Forbes, West Wyalong, Nareendera / Leeton, Wagga Wagga, Cowra, Orange, Bathurst, Lithgow, Southern Highlands, Goulburn, Cooma, Sapphire Coast, Illawarra & Central Coast.

Despite advice to the contrary you can be a member of both the Guild and the Association, after all it’s about Cake Decorating right , the Association’s charter does state in basic terms that if you are a committee member in one you can’t be a committee member in the other, I imagine the Guild’s Charter might say the same, but I’ve yet to get my hands on one.

If you have a list of meeting dates for 2009 for any of these branches, feel free to leave a comment or use the Contact page and I will add them!

Please also find attached for download a copy of the Sydney Branch Newsletter for February to help you see a little more about the Guild. (Click the word newsletter after this sentence).

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Here are some pictures from some of the demonstrations. There hasn’t been a meeting where I haven’t picked up at least one helpful tip.