Come and join us at your local Hughes store on Friday the 25th of September for another one our coffee mornings in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support. Many of our store teams will be serving up coffee and cakes all morning, along with all the usual help and advice on the products in store. Whilst there’s no charge for our cakes, coffee or witty repartee, we’ll be happily sending any kind donations to Macmillan.
The World’s Biggest Coffee Morning is Macmillan Cancer Support’s biggest charity fundraising event. People across the UK – and sometimes further afield – hold coffee mornings, all in aid of Macmillan. In 2014 nearly 200,000 people signed up to host a
coffee morning, raising a record £25,102,796 for the charity. This year, we want to do our bit again to help beat that.
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 £130 million in total for Macmillan Cancer Support.
So why not come along and join in with the fun. There’s nothing like the buzz of caffeine to help you digest all the latest technology in store (made simple by your friendly, knowledgeable Hughes team, of course!)
With some great deals on coffee machines, bread makers and a whole host of the latest kitchen gadgets we might even tempt you to walk away with your very own coffee maker for that morning at home.
Many of the teams at our stores across East Anglia and the Midlands are taking part and will be carrying the event through to Saturday as well – so find your local store here and help us to help Macmillan.
