Students coffee morning raised nearly £150 for Macmillan

Harrison Smith and Luke Chadwick, both 12, tuck into cakes bought at the Macmillan Coffee Morning at Whitworth Community High School

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Students from Whitworth Community High School baked cakes and raised nearly £150 for Macmillan Cancer Support.

The World’s Biggest Coffee Morning event was especially poignant as the school’s Head of Modern Foreign Languages, Amy Mullen, sadly lost her battle with cancer in May.

The charity group organised the sale during morning break when hundreds of pupils tucked in.

Amy Walker, 13, said: “My mum runs a business, Jack and Oscar’s, and makes gluten free and dairy free cakes and she provided me with a lemon drizzle cake to sell.”

Carmel Sweeney, 13, said: “It has been a mad rush with so many people wanting to buy cakes and we had a lot of cakes made by staff and students.

“We always run the coffee morning but this year it had a special significance because we lost one of our teachers, Mrs Mullen, to cancer.”

The charity group selects one major charity to hold ongoing events for, last year it was the British Heart Foundation, and also organises one off events and responds to appeals.

Senior Citizens are invited into school each year for a Christmas meal and hampers are collected and distributed. The group also make up shoeboxes to be sent abroad at Christmas.

Carmel added: “It makes me happy to know that I am helping people and I enjoy doing things to help in the community.”