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The results are in: Whitby has done good!! After the much-publicised and much-supported campaign by Macmillan Cancer Support, coffee mornings were held in all shapes and sizes across the length and breadth of the country during September this year (and also into October) as part of the World’s Biggest Coffee Morning. Whitby has performed brilliantly [...]
Posted by Dennis on the 1st December 2011
According to the Stroke Association, around 150,000 of us in the UK suffer from a stroke each year. The statistics thereafter are also rather grim. Again, according to the Stroke Association, one third of these individuals will not survive the next ten days and one third are likely to have a form of disability as [...]
Posted by Phil on the 30th November 2011
Did you get involved in the World’s Biggest Coffee Morning this year? Do you know what it is? Let me tell you. Macmillan Cancer Support – an organisation that does wonderful things to support those who suffer from cancer and also their families in many, many ways – raise a significant proportion of their funds [...]
Posted by Phil on the 29th November 2011
It’s a time-honoured tradition, the humble coffee morning, but it is still going strong and contributes enormously to the funds and awareness of many charities all over the world. Did you hear about the Macmillan World’s Biggest Coffee Morning recently for instance? Another coffee morning has just taken place in Banbridge Leisure Centre and it [...]
Posted by Dennis on the 28th November 2011
If you are near the Ballycastle Presbyterian Church Hall on 10 December this year, between 10am and noon, spare a thought to those with cancer and the wonderful work that is being done by the Marie Curie Cancer Care group. If you have the time and the inclination, why not pop in for a cup [...]
Posted by Dennis on the 25th November 2011
As reported in the Watford Observer, a coffee morning has been held recently to raise funds for a new Macular Degeneration Unit at Hillingdon Hospital. The lady behind the fund-raising activities was Joan Brookes and she knows only too well about the disadvantages of suffering from the disease, as she was diagnosed with Age-Related Macular [...]
Posted by Matt on the 24th November 2011
Are you likely to be in St Catherine in Jamaica on 2 December? (No, us neither. Ed) If so, why not swing by the Vanity Fair grounds in Linstead and check out the coffee festival which has been arranged there. The Central St Catherine Coffee Growers Co-Operative Society has taken the initiative, according to reports [...]
Posted by Matt on the 23rd November 2011
In these turbulent economic times, have you noticed how gentle activities that do not involve going too far afield have become de rigueur? Glamping – glamorous camping to the uninitiated – for example, or the interest of many in home-cooking or growing your own vegetables on an allotment are other instances of a new trend. [...]
Posted by Dennis on the 22nd November 2011
You may have been aware that the World’s Biggest Coffee Morning campaign was run again very successfully this year by the Macmillan Cancer Support team. All over the country, coffee mornings were held, big and small, to raise funds for the charity. Although the charity received donations from a series of events around September and [...]
Posted by Matt on the 21st November 2011
When you’re away from home, there are many little things that you miss. Home cooking, family and friends, a few of your little daily treats, for example. However, for the US troops who are overseas, the reports are that coffee is one of the things which they love to receive when away from home. In [...]
Posted by Dennis on the 18th November 2011
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