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.
Last year 43,000 people signed up to hold a coffee morning, raising over £8 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.
My how you've grown...
Over the years, the World’s Biggest Coffee Morning has grown to include many different types of event - from a traditional coffee morning with cake and conversation, to a pub quiz in the evening.
There have also been several record attempts, including the highest coffee morning (on a jet fighter in 2004), the most distant coffee morning (Antarctica in 2002) and the world’s deepest coffee morning (down Poldark Mine, Cornwall in 2002).
It's about more than just coffee...
We want our supporters to do whatever suits them - and have fun doing it. Whether it's a traditional coffee morning at home, work or school, or something different altogether – a garden party, pub quiz, or karaoke night - the main thing is getting together with friends and knowing that your collective efforts are making a huge difference to people affected by cancer.
Whatever you do, we hope you'll get together with friends, family and colleagues on Friday 30 September and raise some money (and a smile) for people affected by cancer.