Thousands of people around the UK will be raising their
mugs on Friday, 24 September, in aid of Macmillan Cancer
Care.
The World's Biggest Coffee Morning is Macmillan Cancer Support's
biggest fundraising event. They ask people across the UK - and
sometimes further afield - to hold a coffee morning, where
donations on the day are made to Macmillan.
Last year 43,000 people registered to hold a coffee
morning, raising £7.9 million.
This year they are hoping to raise over £8 million to help
change the lives of people affected by cancer.
The event started in 1990, when a local fundraising committee
decided to hold a coffee morning where people came along to meet
and mingle - as they might ordinarily do - but donate the cost of
their coffee to Macmillan in the process.
The idea seemed such a simple, yet effective, one that they
suggested the model be taken up nationally. The first National
World’s Biggest Coffee Morning was in 1991, when 2,600 people
registered to hold coffee mornings across the country. Since then
it has raised over £60 million in total for Macmillan Cancer
Support.
Visit Macmillan's coffee
morning website for more details.