Hyndburn residents enjoyed a coffee for a cause on Friday as part of the World’s Biggest Coffee Morning in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support.
Members and staff at the Dunkenhalgh Hotel’s leisure club in Clayton-le-Moors raised £500 by selling cakes, cupcakes and bottles of wine at the event, organised by leisure club supervisors Gemma Woodcock and Anne Roberts.
Leisure club manager Phil Stephenson said: “It is a great cause. More than 50 people came, everything went perfectly and we topped the amount we raised last year.”
Crowning Glory hairdressers in Clayton-le-Moors got into the spirit of the event too, with 200 people turning out for cakes, sandwiches, a hot dog stall, plants and a raffle with hundreds of prizes.
Owner Pamela Brankin said: “It was a fantastic. Around 200 people came and Hyndburn mayor Marlene Haworth paid us a visit.
“We haven’t counted the takings yet but we hope to have raised more than £2,000.”
Local businesses Open All Flowers, Greggs Cooked Meats and Clayton Bakery also donated flowers, cooked meats and 350 teacakes between them.
Pamela added: “It is so well supported every year.”
St John’s Stonefold CE Primary School also reported ‘a good turnout’ and were busy counting the money raised.
Dozens of coffee mornings took place across the borough, adding to the hundreds of thousands across the UK, with Macmillan estimating more than 5 million cups of coffee drunk and 12 million slices of cake consumed.
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