Come and join us at Hughes in Newmarket this Friday the 26th of September between 9am-12pm for our coffee morning in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support. Manager Andy Yallop and his team (including trained Barista, Mark ) will be serving up coffee and homemade cakes, along with all the usual help and advice on the products in store. Whilst there’s no charge for our cakes, coffee or fountains of knowledge, 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 2013 154,000 people signed up to coffee morning, raising a record £20 million for charity.
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 £113 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 the Hughes staff of course!).
And with our great deals on coffee machines, we might even tempt you to walk away with your very own coffee maker for that coffee morning at home.
Many of the teams at our stores across East Anglia are taking part – we’ll bring you a list of everyone taking part later.
