Next Friday (26th) Macmillan Cancer Relief, one of the UK’s leading cancer care charities, is holding its annual nationwide fund-raising coffee morning – the World’s Biggest Coffee Morning – which last year raised a staggering £3.2m in a single morning. An estimated 1.5 million supporters took part in 2002 via coffee mornings organised all around the UK, ranging from supermarket cafeterias to home-based events, and this year’s event aims to be even bigger with a target of £3.5m having been set to help people living with cancer.
This year, for the first time, CairnGorm Mountain’s two cafeterias– at the Day Lodge and at the Top Station – will be involved and everyone buying a coffee on Friday between 10.00 a.m. and 3.00 p.m. at either venue will have the proceeds donated to Macmillan Cancer Relief.
Those who chose to travel on the CairnGorm Funicular Railway to enjoy their coffee – and the views - in the panoramic Ptarmigan Restaurant will also probably be able to claim attendance at the UK’s Highest Coffee Morning for the country’s highest restaurant is located at 1,097 metres above sea level. And to encourage people to head for the top, CairnGorm Mountain is staging its own “Any Questions” session between 11.15 a.m. and 12.00 Noon with Charlie Whelan, former “spin doctor” to Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, MP, but now firmly resident in Nethybridge and a popular weekly columnist with “The Strathy”, hosting the event.
Local celebrity panellists, who will be involved in answering questions from the audience as well as in the general open discussion, will include Tim Walker, Principal of Glenmore Lodge who has been a local resident for over 20 years, Hendy Pollock, former Environmental Health Officer and now a local radio broadcaster for Speysound, Patricia Eccles, creator of the Monarch Country tourism initiative, and Rev Ron Whyte, a former professional diver and marine engineer but now the local Minister as well as a skiing ambassador at CairnGorm Mountain.
Said Tania Adams, CairnGorm Mountain’s Marketing Manager:
“Everyone knows someone who has been a cancer sufferer and thousands of people and their families are currently dealing with the shock of a cancer diagnosis. Macmillan Cancer Relief is able to support about one in five of these people and we wanted to get involved their fund-raising by taking part in the World’s Biggest Coffee Morning. Across the UK, many celebrities have agreed to join in but most of them are London-based and, as ever, we wanted to do our own thing locally. That’s why we are staging our first-ever Any Questions session at The Ptarmigan and are very grateful to our own team of local celebrities for agreeing to take part. Hopefully, lots of local people will come along on Friday morning to take part in the fun and, at the same time, raise money for a very worthwhile cause.”
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Further information from BILL NOLAN Tel. 07885 071804
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