The official date for Macmillan's Coffee Morning is Friday, September 25, but people can hold their events whenever they like.
Macmillan Cancer Support is facing a drop in income of over 70% and warned of a “possible tsunami of demand” due to the backlog of delayed cancer diagnoses.
Last year people in Lincolnshire raised £283,000 from holding coffee mornings, with £26,800 in Lincoln alone. The charity now needs people to support Coffee Morning either virtually or by holding takeaway events.
The money funds vital services including Macmillan nurses and patient grants. However, figures show the number of people planning to hold a Coffee Morning across the county has fallen by 74%, so the charity needs the support of people in Lincolnshire more than ever.
Across the UK, early figures show sign-ups for the event are down by around 68%, with the £27.5 million raised in 2019 expected to fall to under £8 million this year. This would be the lowest amount Coffee Morning will have raised in 11 years.
The official date for Coffee Morning is Friday, September 25, but people can hold theirs whenever they like and they are being urged to find out about the new ways to take part.
Ruth Willis, Macmillan Partnership Manager for Lincolnshire said: “There has never been a more terrifying time in recent history to receive a cancer diagnosis with disruption and delays to treatment and fears of increased risk of becoming infected with coronavirus.
“A huge 98% of Macmillan’s income is from donations and events like Coffee Morning. While Coffee Morning can’t take place in exactly the same way as before this year, there are still lots of ways to get involved.
“At Macmillan we’re facing a possible tsunami of demand coming towards us this autumn, as the cancer system gets moving again and the backlog of delayed diagnoses begins to be dealt with. Worryingly this increased need for support would come at a time when our fundraised income has dropped significantly.
“We’re facing the hardest year in our 109-year history. It’s no exaggeration to say Macmillan and people with cancer have never needed the public’s help more than we do right now.”
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Police are looking for a man who attempted to demand money from the Post Office in Winthorpe near Skegness.
At 12.44pm on Friday, a man entered the Post Office and asked for money at the till.
Staff refused to hand over cash, which prompted him to make threats towards them before leaving empty handed.
One witness said that he threatened to come back with a gun if staff did not give him money.
Police are now appealing to anyone who may have been a witness or has information that may help investigations.
The suspect has been described as a white male in his mid 30s, approximately 5ft 10 in height, of a slim build, wearing a grey tracksuit and a blue face mask.
Anyone who can help officers with this should call 101 and quote incident 193 of February 26.
Grantham singer Holly Humberstone went stateside for a performance and interview on The Late Late Show with James Corden on Thursday.
Holly, 21, performed her hit single Falling Asleep At The Wheel remotely from a dimly lit road in an unknown location.
The special performance piece was broadcast on the American talk show on Thursday night, and depicted Holly sat in the middle of a dimly lit road with her keyboard.
Before the performance, she was interviewed by the show’s host James Corden and said she has big plans for 2021, including releasing a song she has written with Matty Healy, the frontman of The 1975.
Holly sat down for an interview with James Corden on The Late Late Show. | Photo: The Late Late Show with James Corden on YouTube
Holly told The Late Late Show: “It’s been a really surreal year, I feel like all my interactions have been over social media, which is really weird and really cool because people from Brazil are messaging me saying ‘I love your music’.
“I think it will be even weirder when I get out and play live shows.
“The song with Matty (Healy, from The 1975) will be part of my next EP, which will come out in the next few months.”
It is just the next step in Holly’s meteoric rise through the music industry, after she came 2nd in the BBC’s Sound of 2021 list.
A Lincoln chef and distillery entrepreneur now also makes and sells a range of sauces based on the periodic table of elements, with some of them too hot to handle for many.
Nerd Sauce is the latest creation by Sam Owen, owner of the Salted Orange Food Company, and the idea came in the spring of 2020 when weddings and events were cancelled by coronavirus lockdown.
The sauces are inspired by the periodic table, with each sauce having its own elements of local ingredients and hot chillies.
The daunting Naga Death Sauce, containing one of the hottest chillies in the world. | Photo: Steve Smailes
The hottest sauce on offer is the Naga Death Sauce, at a mind-blowing 1.3 million Scoville units, and has a pretty intense slogan of “quite simply, this is how death feels”.
In stark contrast to that, the Sriracha inspired Kashmiri sauce has just 2,000 Scoville, the opposite end of the spectrum to the Naga Death Sauce.
There are a total of 12 sauces on offer at the moment. | Photo: Steve Smailes
Other sauces include a ketchup mixed with balsamic vinegar and paprika, and an American BBQ sauce with molasses, Worcester sauce and cider vinegar.
The first 12 flavours have now been launched by Nerd Sauce, and more creations are expected to come in the near future.
Beetroot ketchup puts a Lincolnshire produce twist on the classic. | Photo: Steve Smailes
Owner of Nerd Sauce Sam Owen said: “As a chef, I believe that flavour and quality is everything, and through Nerd Sauce I wanted to bring something new to the table (pun intended), something with locally sourced, naturally good quality ingredients, and that isn’t filled to the brim with water or thickener.
“I believe that sauces are much more than their ingredients, and the range we have launched today, has something for every taste from the Sunday roast right through to the Friday night takeaway, some have been inspired by the classics, whilst others are like nothing you have tasted before.”
You can browse the selection online on the Nerd Sauce website, with prices varying from £2.85 to £5 a bottle.
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