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The first Coffee Morning was held in 1990, when a local fundraising committee held a coffee morning where the cost of the coffee was donated to Macmillan. The first nationwide Coffee Morning took place in 1991 with 2,600 supporters taking part. [2] The World's Biggest Coffee Morning is one of the largest and longest-standing fundraising events ...
The most notable event is the World's Biggest Coffee Morning, which made £16.8 million in 2023, compared to £13.7 million in 2022. [10] Macmillan also hosts other large fundraisers, including Brave the Shave, which raises over £4,000,000 each year, [ 11 ] as well as their Mighty Hikes series, which raised £12.3 million in 2023, compared to ...
Douglas Macmillan was born on 10 August 1884, in Castle Cary, Somerset, the seventh of eight children of William Macmillan (1844–1911) and his wife Emily, formerly White (1843–1937). His father became managing director of John Boyd & Co. (manufacturers of horsehair-based products), was a Somerset County Alderman, and for 15 years edited and ...
Macmillan Publishers (occasionally known as the Macmillan Group; formally Macmillan Publishers Ltd in the UK and Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC in the US) is a British publishing company traditionally considered to be one of the "Big Five" English language publishers (along with Penguin Random House, Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster).
The Daily Office is a term used primarily by members of the Episcopal Church. In Anglican churches, the traditional canonical hours of daily services include Morning Prayer (also called Matins or Mattins, especially when chanted) and Evening Prayer (called Evensong, especially when celebrated chorally), usually following the Book of Common Prayer.
His father is James MacMillan, a carpenter, [1] and his mother is Ellen MacMillan (née Loy). [ 2 ] He studied composition at the University of Edinburgh with Rita McAllister and Kenneth Leighton , [ 3 ] and at Durham University with John Casken , where he gained an undergraduate degree and then a PhD degree in 1987.
The Galloway Mass (1996), for cantor, congregation, choir and organ first performed by the congregation of Good Shepherd Cathedral, Ayr on 25 March 1997. The Halie Speerit's Dauncers (1996), for unison children's choir and piano written as a gift for the Corpus Christi Primary School, Glasgow, where it was first performed on 28 April 1997.
The character of Major-General Stanley was widely taken to be a caricature of the popular general Sir Garnet Wolseley.The biographer Michael Ainger, however, doubts that Gilbert intended a caricature of Wolseley, identifying instead the older General Henry Turner, an uncle of Gilbert's wife whom Gilbert disliked, as a more likely inspiration for the satire.