Did you have your cake and eat it?
Awdry Bailey and Douglas Devizes employees took part in supporting this event last Friday by making cakes and then eating them – for a donation of course!! As well as making cakes a raffle also took place – the prize was a tin of Celebration Chocolates. It’s the taking part that counts and for a great cause too. Macmillan has raised so far over £867,563.33 as a result of donations and coffee mornings held all over the UK.
Did you know?
In 1911, a young man called Douglas Macmillan saw his father die of cancer. His father’s pain and suffering upset Douglas so much that he founded the ‘Society for the Prevention and Relief of Cancer’.
He did this because he wanted advice and information to be provided to all people who suffered with cancer, he wanted homes for patients at low or no cost, and voluntary nurses to attend to patients in their own homes.
Today, much of his legacy lives on. Macmillan is still a source of support for people living with cancer today and is a force for improving cancer care.
Did you know?
The first National World’s Biggest Coffee Morning took place in 1991 when approx 2,600 people registered to hold coffee mornings across the country. Since then coffee mornings have raised over £138 million for Macmillan.
For more information, or if you would like to make a donation –
www.macmillan.org.uk/Coffee_Morning
