About our event

What is the World's Biggest Coffee Morning?

The World's Biggest Coffee Morning is Macmillan Cancer Support's biggest fundraising event. We ask people across the UK - and sometimes further afield - to hold a coffee morning, where donations on the day are made to Macmillan. In 2011 51,000 people signed up to coffee morning, raising a record £10 million.

This year we want to raise even more money to help change the lives of people affected by cancer. Find out about how Macmillan helps|.

How did it start?

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 £60 million in total for Macmillan Cancer Support.

Not just about coffee.

The World’s Biggest Coffee Morning has grown to include many different type of events. We want our supporters to enjoy doing whatever suits them so if you don’t do coffee and you don’t do mornings, why not hold a pub quiz, karaoke night or a vintage-styled tea party?

We’ve even had several record attempts from our fabulous supporters, including...

• The highest coffee morning (on a jet fighter, 2004)
• The most distant coffee morning (Antarctica, 2002) 
• The world’s deepest coffee morning (Poldark Mine - Cornwall, 2002)

Whatever you do, we hope you’ll get together with friends, family and colleagues on Friday 28 September and make time for what really matters.