The community rallied around Shantele Wallwork, owner of popular Burnley cake shed, yummymummybakes, to help her pay the £1,000 street licence fee, allowing the business to reopen on Friday.

Life is turning out to be sweet for the owner of a Burnley ‘cake shed’ who was forced to close her popular little business.

Shantele Wallwork made the decision to close after receiving the news that she would have to pay a £1,000 fee for a street licence. Without the finances to pay the hefty fee, Shantele decided to close while she thought of a way to raise the money as the cake shed didn’t make that kind of cash and any money raised was ploughed back into the business.

Hitting on the idea of pre-orders from customers yummymummybakes has raised the fee in just one month ,and the business re-opens on Friday.

And thanks to the publicity surrounding the mum of five’s dilemna, Shantele has been asked to sell her bakes at Colne Market Hall and also a cafe.

A delighted Shantele said: “I can’t thank customers enough for their support, for all the orders and even the offer of donations from some kind people which we just couldn’t accept.

“We are giving the cake shed a glow up with an autumnal theme ready for the re-opening.”

Yummymummybakes was born 18 months ago when Shantele took maternity leave to have her youngest son Archie who is nine-months-old old.

Passionate about baking all her life, Shantele said opening the cake shed was a dream come true. It was such a success the Shantele and her husband Adam invested in building a separate kitchen at their Marsden Road home just for the business.

A real family affair, Shantele never expected the business to become such a success and the focal point it is in the Marsden Road area where they live.

Adam, a radiographer at Burnley General Hospital, takes care of the labelling process and their eldest son Jack, (21) is currently building a website for the business. And the family is proud to use local produce, including milk and eggs from Balmer’s Dairy.

Once news spread about the closure the community rallied with support and even offers of setting up a justgiving page to raise the money which left the couple, who are also parents to Harry (18 ) Lilly (15)) four-year-old Noah, deeply touched.