Macmillan’s big coffee morning a success

Deborah Bates

04/10/2011 13:46:56

Events were held up and down the nation last week as part of Macmillan’s World’s Biggest Coffee Morning fundraising drive.

Each seemed to be a raving success, if reports from local news publications throughout the UK are anything to go by.

Arming themselves with a coffee machine, kettle and cakes, thousands of volunteers helped to raised potentially millions of pounds for the cancer charity. Some of these do-gooders were based in Salisbury, where they gathered at the Mercure White Hart Hotel to host their own coffee morning.

According to the Salisbury Journal, the group raised just shy of £292.35 for the charity. What’s more, selfless volunteers in Huntingdonshire managed to raise some £350, whilst employees of Barclay’s bank in Chesterfield brought in some £750.

The amazing total was boosted a little by the bank itself, which promised to match the coffee morning’s takings of £375.

It wasn’t just in England that keen fundraisers were hard at work though. In Hamilton, Scotland, some 100 locals attended the coffee morning at Cadzow Parish Church, Stv.tv reported. Raising around £608, the event gained its income by selling teas, coffees, cakes, holding a raffle and selling Macmillan-branded goods.

Local provost, Russell Clearie, praised the fundraisers’ efforts. He claimed: “it’s such a wonderful cause and my thanks go to the committee for putting on such a fabulous morning.

“Cancer can knock at anyone’s door and that’s why the charity is so well-loved and we all recognise the first-class work they are doing and why they need our donations.”