Matt Discombe

Lincoln Business Club Chairman Richard Hare, presenting a £250 cheque to Rachael Hewitt from St Barnabas Lincolnshire Hospice at their August meeting

Members of Lincoln Business Club will host a coffee morning in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support on Friday, September 28.

Lincoln Business Club are taking part in the World’s Biggest Coffee Morning, an annual event organised by Macmillan to fund their nurses, therapists and support line workers.

The coffee morning will be held at Lincoln City Football Club at 9am, after the club’s monthly networking meeting which starts at 7am.

Club members will also be asked to donate prizes to a raffle to help fund the charity, which supports millions of people living with cancer in the UK every year.

Last year, 51,000 people signed up to coffee morning and raised a record £10 million for Macmillan.

Richard Hare, Chairman of Lincoln Business Club, said: “The main aims of the club are to facilitate networking among the city’s businesses and raise money for charity.”

“By taking part in the World’s Biggest Coffee Morning we can achieve both of these aims and have a bit of fun at the same.”

Lincoln Business Club provides networking opportunities to local businesses within a 30-mile radius of the city. It donates much of its members fees to local charities.

“Unfortunately statistics show one in three of us will get cancer so it is something that effects everyone in one way or another and Macmillan does an amazing job providing medical, emotional, practical and financial support for sufferers and their families.”

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Lincoln’s Advent Calendar Boxes will give out 24 early Christmas presents in December

Lincoln’s Advent Calendar Trail, which last year gave shoppers the chance to win Christmas prizes, will return this December.

Stores in the City Centre, St Mark’s and uphill areas will display Advent Calendar Boxes filled with prizes in their windows from December 1 to 24.

Contestants will be asked to write down what they see in each day’s Advent Calendar Box, with the winner receiving a prize worth £50 on the same day.

Each of the 24 Lincoln stores participating in the trail will have a numbered box, which will contain the prize of that day of the month.

Shoppers who enter the daily competitions will also have the chance to win more than £100 in cash and vouchers in a bumper draw.

The trail, which has been organised by Lincoln Business Improvement Group (Lincoln BIG), has been altered since last year when Susan Busley, a teacher at Lincoln College, won £2,500 worth of gifts.

Lincoln BIG Events and Promotions Manager Michael Armstrong said: “Local businesses started throwing their weight behind this year’s competition within hours of approaching businesses to see if they were interested in supporting an Advent Calendar Trail this year.”

“We are delighted that they have acted so quickly and we are now just looking to place the final few boxes.”