Date Posted: 29/09/11
World's Biggest Coffee Morning!
Love coffee and live near Cambridge? If you are free over the weekend why not pop down to Cambridge's Unitarian Church for a lovely coffee and for a very good cause.
Macmillan Cancer kindly 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 signed up to hold a coffee morning, raising over £8 million.
How did it start?
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.
To find your nearest coffee morning event,
please click here.Enjoy!
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