What is World's Biggest Coffee Morning?
[[File:Wbcm 2mug no strapline.jpg|thumb|World's Biggest Coffee Morning Logo]] '''World's Biggest Coffee Morning''' is the biggest [[fundraising]] event by [[Macmillan Cancer Support]]. Every year, people in the [[United Kingdom|UK]] and other places host an event called a Coffee Morning. The money received is to be used for services provided by Macmillan Cancer Support. In 2016, World's Biggest Coffee Morning raised £29.5 million. == History == The first World's Biggest Coffee Morning happened in 1990, when a local fundraising [[committee]] held a coffee morning in which the cost of the coffee was donated to Macmillan Cancer Support. The first Coffee Morning that happened all around the UK happened in 1991, in which 2,600 supporters took part. Since then, the World's Biggest Coffee Morning has come a long way, to the point where it is the biggest and longest-happening fundraising event of its kind in the UK. In 2016, Coffee Morning raised over £29.5 million to help provide support to people in the UK who have [[cancer]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://coffee.macmillan.org.uk/about/what/ | title=The World's Biggest Coffee Morning for Macmillan Cancer Support }}</ref> Some Coffee Morning hosts have raised money for the event in unusual ways, such as by hosting a Coffee Morning 100 feet underground in [[Poldark Mine]], or on a jet fighter, or by hosting the most distant Coffee Morning, which happened in [[Antarctica]]. == Corporate supporters == The official partner of Coffee Morning is [[Marks & Spencer]]. Since 2010, Marks & Spencer has raised £10 million by creating limited edition [[homeware]] products and selling a range of baked goods, and donating some of the money they make from them to Macmillan Cancer Support.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://coffee.macmillan.org.uk/about/our-official-partner/ |title=Our official partner &#124; World's Biggest Coffee Morning &#124; Macmillan Cancer Support |access-date=2020-09-20 |archive-date=2018-02-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180203155432/https://coffee.