Community
18 February, 2026
Flipping pancakes for funds on Shrove Tuesday
In the past, the town has been filled with the smell of pancakes cooking as the congregation set up shop with lines of barbeques outside the Town Hall.
FOR MANY years, the St Arnaud Uniting Church has been celebrating Pancake Day.
In the past, the town has been filled with the smell of pancakes cooking as the congregation set up shop with lines of barbeques outside the Town Hall.
Pat Woods said orders had been taken earlier, and the pancakes were delivered to work places all over town—the shops, offices, schools, banks, industrial estate-as well as to locals and visitors just passing by.
“It was hard work sometimes cooking, packing, delivering-but it was also a fun day, meeting people from all walks of life and sharing their stories,” she said
“Money raised has always been donated to “Wimmera Uniting Care,” a Uniting Church social outreach service based in Horsham.”
Uniting provides a range of family, disability and mental health services to people in need of support in our area.
Also known as “Shrove Tuesday”, which will be officially on February 17, it is the day before the beginning of Lent, the traditional Christian period of 40 days of fasting and reflection before Easter.
It is celebrated by using up rich foods like eggs, milk and sugar to make pancakes—foods that symbolize the things people may not be eating during Lent.
“Pancake Day has now become a practical and fun way to support the work of Uniting,” Mrs Woods said.
In recent years, the street barbeque has been replaced by a combined churches morning tea held in the Uniting Church Hall.
[This year it will be held a little later].
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