Staff and residents at Ashchurch View Care Home near Tewksbury held a charity coffee morning and bake sale on 26th of September to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support.
Having a coffee morning is the perfect chance to catch up over a cuppa and a slice of something delicious for a great cause. The money raised helps everyone with cancer to live life as fully as they can.
Residents enjoyed spending time with friends and relatives, and members of the local community. Head chef had baked lots of lovely cakes, biscuits and pastries for everyone to sample and for guests to buy to take home. Some staff members had baked cakes and biscuits for the occasion too which were enthusiastically received by everyone.
Ashchurch View’s coffee morning was a big success with several donations being made from families, visitors and staff.
Samantia Deflorimonte- Rose, General Manager at Ashchurch View, said: “Our Macmillan coffee morning has been a huge amount of fun, everyone at the home is always keen to support this fantastic charity in any way we can. We are very glad to be able to do our bit to raise further awareness for MacMillan and money for the charity.”
One of the residents at the home, commented: “MacMillan is such a fantastic charity and they do such amazing work in the community, we all love raising money for them and the best bit is, we get to each cake at the same time!”