To charge £3 for coffee & cupcake at Macmillan cake sale ?

[princessconsuelobananahammock]

Having a Macmillan coffee morning on Sunday. It's in a community centre & been advertised so there will be people I don't know. Not sure what the done thing is with donations vs charging for coffee & cake. Personally, I hate the vagueness of 'donation' I agonise about the right amount so I was thinking of setting a price. £3 coffee & cupcake. £4 coffee & big wedge of cake. Does that sound ok?

£3 for a coffee and a bun?! Sounds a lot to me, sorry!

That sounds really expensive to me - so for a couple it'd be £8 plus if they had kids extra?

I did one today - we raised £600 on donations.

Where are you? That sounds expensive.

Sounds fine. I went to one today. £5. This is for charity, folks.

That sounds like a lot, unless you're providing top quality coffee and cake. If it's Kenco and homemade fairy cakes, I wouldn't charge more than £2, and that includes an overpayment because it's for charidee.

Exactly, if you went with your partner that would be £8 for a cup of tea/coffee each and a slice of cake! Far too expensive.
You'd do far better lowering your prices and you'll get much more buying them, therefore raising more money!

£3 for a coffee and cupcake in SE London would be absolutely fine.

if you are fundraising seems reasonable my mum did a cake and coffee thing at home for charity and we all put in £5.

if you went to a coffee shop it's expensive.

I wouldn't blink at £3 for a charity coffee and bun.

Sounds fine. I went to one today. £5. This is for charity, folks.

Where the heck was this? Yes, it's for charity, doesn't mean you should rip people off though.

Tbh it's no more than you would pay in Caffe Nero or Costa and those aren't for a good cause. But perhaps my idea of prices is warped by living in London.

I've been travelling round a bit today and have been to several different workplaces which were doing Macmillan mornings and charging £2 for coffee and a cake, so that seems to be the going rate around here. Whatever you decide I'd just have a flat rate if you want to set a charge rather than just go for donations and cut the cake a bit less generously. Good luck, hope you raise loads!

Geography probably makes a difference (this wild be fine in W London) but the market comparison is it would be £6 odd in Starbucks and this is for charity - reasonable pricing I think.

Sounds fine by me (North of England)

Thanks for doing this. I found Macmillan so supportive when I had cancer. People like you keep the funding going to help people like me: a Mum with a DH & 2 DC.

You wouldn't get a coffee and a piece of cake in a cafe for £3 round here, and I don't live anywhere near London or the south east.

I would happily pay £3 BTW.

The ones local to me were charging £1 for a slice of cake. Think your idea is sounding a bit dear unless it's proper coffees, cappuccinos and the like.

Can't poorer people donate to charity then?

Only the rich get to do it in style

Ours was just donations. People were putting £5 or £10 in. i think you'll get more if is a donation.

I would do donations. I would give a fiver, but not everyone can.

Ok thanks, you see it's hard! Sounds like I'll hedge at £2.50?! Would hate to look like ripping off, just want to raise as much as possible!

£2.50 is perfect. good luck with the sale.

I think it sounds expensive, although I don't use coffee shops so can't compare. I always say donations because people don't ask for their change then...

Weirdly, charging set prices garners lower takings and more bad feeling.

Put "suggested donation" rather than charge.

Also I once bought a horrendous cake at a church fete. The writing saying what it was in really spidery elderly writing and can't remember if it was supposed to be coffee cake or chocolate, but of my , it was hideous. Ended up binning the lot. I think she had forgotten the sugar in it.