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The charity was founded 1911 [4] as the Society for the Prevention and Relief of Cancer, by Douglas Macmillan following the death of his father from the disease. In 1924, the name was changed to the National Society for Cancer Relief, which it retained until 1989 when it was changed to Cancer Relief Macmillan Fund, later changed again to Macmillan Cancer Relief.
Macmillan Coffee Morning (formerly World's Biggest Coffee Morning) is an annual fundraising event run by Macmillan Cancer Support where people across the UK host and attend Coffee Mornings in aid of Macmillan. Since 1990 it has raised over £310 million for Macmillan. [1]
Macmillan Cancer Support, a British charity; McMillan Hotels, a hotel group; McMillan LLP, a Canadian law firm; McMillan Firearms Manufacturing. McMillan TAC-50, a sniper rifle; Macmillan Publishers, a multinational publishing group Macmillan Inc., a now mostly defunct American publishing company; Macmillan of Canada, a Canadian publishing house.
A donation in 2015 for over £15,000 was presented to the Anthony Nolan trust, [15] [16] with previous benefactors including Macmillan and the Disasters Emergency Committee. In 2016, Skiddle announced it would be aiming to raise £100,000 for Macmillan Cancer Support in memory of a colleague who died from cancer.
Shelves in a thrift store in Indianapolis, Indiana A charity shop in Sheringham, UK. A charity shop (British English), thrift shop or thrift store (American English and Canadian English, also includes for-profit stores such as Savers) or opportunity shop or op-shop (Australian English and New Zealand English) is a retail establishment run by a charitable organization to raise money.
In 1974 the charity Friends of Sir Michael Sobell House was established (now the Sobell House Hospice Charity), and together with funding from the NHS, and from Sir Michael and the NSCR, sufficient was raised to build a specialist palliative care unit, which opened to patients in 1976.
Charity work and community In March 2014, Wren Kitchens donated £437,080 to charities supporting victims of the 2013-14 United Kingdom winter floods . [ 27 ] The firm has also raised money for children's cancer charity CLIC Sargent and Macmillan Cancer Support .
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