What is a Macmillan Coffee Morning?

[ggmom87]

Sorry if it’s a daft question, but our new school is hosting one of these and I don’t know what it is. No explanation of the event is offered. Google is only helping me so much. Do you just buy tea and cakes for a fundraiser? Is it a social event too for parents? It’s happening during school hours.

Details are on the website - Macmillan Cancer Support. They do great work. You should probably check with the organiser, I would anticipate coffee and cakes and perhaps a cake sale or prize draw of some sort.

Are parents invited? My ds's school is having one but parents aren't invited, we just have to donate/make cakes and send in and then give some money to the children so they can buy some during their break time.

Parents are asked to donate and send cakes in, then come in and buy them back together with a cup of coffee or tea!

Probably a good idea to ask the school for more details. No one here will be able to answer specifics about how your school are doing it.

Our school the parents go in and buy the cake (often that they bought in that morning 🤣) then they chat!

It’s run however the organiser chooses to run it

For MacMillan it’s just a format to fundraise, they provide flyers etc (nowadays probably self printed), the organiser plans how to provide coffee & cake etc (by volunteers providing them or getting people to bring them in)

It could be ‘turn up and buy/donate’

Say NO to cancer, say YES to diabetes.

you eat too much cake, drink too much coffee, gossip with other parents. Return home feeling disgusted with yourself from eating too much cake and jittery from too much coffee.

gr8 times.

@TightDiamondShoes we encourage donations of savoury/non-sugary stuff at ours, we have one every year and this year raised over £2k. If you get the timing right, people can buy stuff and have it for their lunch and then come back for something to have at teatime, ours runs 11-3pm while sports matches are being played so parents and kids both invited. This year people donated sausage rolls, samosas, spinach & feta turnovers, tuna empanadas, cocktail pasties, that kind of thing. We also had fresh bread which we sold as whole loaves for people to take home.