MacMillan Coffee Morning
Start Date: 21/09/2018
End Date: 21/09/2018
Venue: Annexe, Elgin
Social events can contribute towards improving working relationships, motivation and engagement, with this in mind we want to tell you all about our next event – MacMillan Cancer Support, the World’s Biggest Coffee Morning.
The World’s Biggest Coffee Morning, taking place on Friday 28th September is Macmillan’s biggest fundraising event for people facing cancer. It is the perfect chance to catch up with your colleagues over a cuppa and a slice of something delicious, all whilst supporting a great cause.
Last year, Gillian Thomson from Housing organised the event within the Annexe and tells us more about it, “I’ve been organising work Macmillan coffee mornings for a number of years now, my mother passed away from cancer at the age of 50 and I decided I’d like to do something almost as a remembrance to her. Macmillan is obviously such a worthwhile cause and they rely solely on charitable donations. As so many peoples’ lives are touched by this disease, I feel it’s really important to do something, no matter how big or small it all adds up and gives a great sense of achievement and satisfaction in that the money raised is helping someone.”
My first coffee morning started when I worked for Fife Council prior to my move North, firstly it was just bacon rolls and homemade jams to start with and it has developed from there, here we are today some 20 or so years later and we’re hosting a great annual event, last year raising just short of £1000.”
Gillian is organising the event again this year, this time round it will be the week prior on Friday 21st September, so put the date in your diary and come along!
Gillian goes on to say, “This is a whole team effort - the lovely team includes my colleagues, Claire, Ivor, Glynis and Trudi also Lorraine, Dennis and Gary from facilities. This event cannot succeed without the generous support and effort from all. The local businesses have been extremely supportive and generous over the years with their donations. Most importantly without the generosity of all staff efforts in baking and donating the event could not be so successful. The delight I hear and the great comments from all when our fundraising total is declared brings a huge smile and makes everyone feel good, at the end of the day we all recognise the importance of this great cause.”
You may want to organise your own event from the location where you work from. Maybe you want to take in some delicious home baking, have a bake off, hold a raffle, or simply offer to make your teams cup of tea or coffee that day in exchange for a donation. There are lots of different ways you can become involved, check out the Macmillan website for more details.
