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Sisters’ 10th coffee morning raises £1k for cancer charity
Willesborough Women’s Institute Hall was filled with coffee and cakes on Saturday as part of the World’s Biggest Coffee Morning.
This was the 10th year that sisters Valerie Randall and Cindy Bax held the event as a way to raise money for cancer charity Macmillan as well as the Pilgrims Hospice.
The World’s Biggest Coffee Morning is Macmillan’s biggest fundraising event for people facing cancer. Since the first coffee morning in 1990, the event has raised more than £165.5 million.
The WI hall was filled with craft, cake and produce stalls, and there was also an auction, a raffle and a tombola.
Altogether, £987 was raised, which has now been donated to Macmillan and the Pilgrims Hospice.
Valerie Randall said: “It was very successful, people were so generous!
“We’ve been running the coffee morning here for 10 years.
“We started off raising £100, and that has just risen over the years.
“It’s a brilliant atmosphere and there’s a whole team of great organisers behind it.”
Members of Kingsnorth Parish Council are holding a Macmillan coffee morning on Friday.
The event, which takes place at Kingsnorth Community Cafe, begins at 9am.
It will include a ‘Great Kingsnorth Bake Off’ competition.
Messy-play group Sensory Sensations is hosting a Macmillan coffee morning at Stanhope Parish Hall on Friday from 9.30am to 11am.
For more information, visit www.sensorysensations.co.uk