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A ROTARY BUS FULL OF COFFEE
1 October 1999



Visit the Macmillan website... find out moreMACMILLAN CANCER RELIEF

In 1998 The City of Leeds Macmillan Appeal was set up to raise the £1.5 million necessary to help establish a Cancer Resource and Information Centre and five additional Macmillan Nurse posts in the local community.

Thanks to a tremendous response from local people the amount raised now stands at a magnificent £1.2 million and the additional nurses are now in post and building of the Cancer Resource and Information Centre is well under way and likely to be completed by December this year.

The remaining £300,000 needed to be raised quickly to enable the Centre to open for patients in the new year.
World record holders The Rotary Club of Pudsey, through its Community Service Committee, responded to this years initiative and took part in ‘THE WORLD’S BIGGEST COFFEE MORNING’ which was happening all over the U.K on the 1st of October.

Thanks to local travel agent Hanson Travel World Choice, we obtained the Wallace Arnold Courtesy Bus which was prominently sited in the market place in Pudsey and open for free coffee (plus a donation to the fund and signature to the record attempt).



I can assure you the coffee is not cold!

A record number of Pudsey Rotarians turned up, despite the lashing rain, to support Committee Chairman Chris Johnson-Green in his latest project.
White shirts and bow ties, leaflets in the streets, coffee and comfort in the bus were all part of the hectic few hours, which included an early power failure and an ill informed traffic warden who tried to move us on!
Local Member of Parliament Paul Truswell popped in to see how we were going on, stayed for coffee and a chat to his constituents, before departing to other venues involved in the record attempt.

 

 Paul Truswell meets Rita Beaumont
your coffee is on it's way.... I hope
Our effort raised £115.00. We will add information about the Leeds appeal and the national record attempt when final results are to hand. ..... Watch this space (as they say)