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Raising a Cup!
A coffee break with a difference is being planned
throughout Norfolk on September 28th as workers and members
of the public raise their cups and funds for a national cancer charity. “The World’s Biggest Coffee Morning” is once
again being organised by Macmillan Cancer Support. Already 500 registration forms have been received
from people prepared to hold their own coffee mornings and events and
workers prepared to raise money during their tea or lunch breaks at
work. Last year’s event attracted 797 separate
“coffee mornings” in Norfolk and raised £125,000. The aim this year
is to have 1,000 events and raise £148,000. Last year’s event raised
£6.7million nationally for the charity which is 99% funded by public
donations. “People enjoy a cup of coffee together and raise
money through tombolas, raffles and various other sales to help us
provide practical, emotional, medical and financial support to cancer
sufferers and their families,” said Helen Chapman, Macmillan Community
Fundraiser for Norfolk. Whilst most people are aware of the caring support
from Macmillan, few know that the charity also provides financial
support. “Last year in Norfolk 140 cancer patients
received £60,000 to provide support including hospital visits, family
holidays, medical costs and numerous other items,” Helen said adding
that at present Norfolk has 45 professionals working within the
Macmillan umbrella including nurses, doctors and dieticians. The charity works tirelessly throughout South
Norfolk with a special project running at the Citizen’s Advice Bureaus
in Attleborough, Thetford and Diss that
provides welfare and benefits advice and support to cancer patients.
Macmillan and the CAB are working together to provide information,
advice, assistance and support. In addition the charity’s only shop in
Norfolk is in Hethersett. On a wider county basis, Macmillan has a cancer
care treatment centre at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King’s Lynn
and also a team that works out of the Norfolk and Norwich University
Hospital. Over 3,000 people are diagnosed as suffering from
cancer in Norfolk each year and one in three people will be affected by
the disease during their lifetime – either suffering directly or
having relatives with the disease. At the present time Macmillan nationally comes into
contact with one in four sufferers. By 2010 they aim to reach everyone
living with cancer. Registration for the World’s Biggest Coffee Morning can be made by telephoning 0845 602 1246 or online at www.macmillan.org.uk/coffee.
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