This September, we are hosting our sixth annual Macmillan Fundraising Day at Brewery Tea Room, the theme will be “A 1920’s Summer” and, weather permitting, will be a fabulous garden party, filled with stalls of pre-loved clothing, bric-a-brac and books.Imagine Downton Abbey at the beach, a summer party with the Great Gatsby, don your straw boaters and crocheted swimwear, 1920’s summer dresses and parasols.  We will have beauty treatments in the summer-house and entertainment, to be announced, throughout the day. Of course we will be serving delicious home-baked cakes and scones, our usual selection of loose leaf teas and freshly ground coffees.

The past five years have been a huge success and have enabled us to raise over £20,000 for this fantastic charity that touches the lives of so many of us. We are committed to raising further funds for the Macmillan Centre at Lister Hospital and are calling on you, our wonderful customers and friends to help us in doing this.

We are in need of all sorts of donations, from bric-a-brac, good quality women’s clothing and paperbacks, to prizes for our Bottle Tombola (think lovely bubble bath and bottles of fizz!) We are also looking for some show-stopping raffle prizes  – how are your powers of persuasion, can you help us to get something fabulous?! If you would like to help on the day, we would love to welcome you to the Macmillan Day Team.

As always, we couldn’t do any of this without You, our generous and supportive friends. Here’s to another brilliant event, helping our community through our actions together. We can’t wait to have a fantastic day of costumes, coffee and cake and look forward to receiving any kind donations you are able to give to make this event another big success.

As you know, we are closed at the moment for our annual summer break, and are looking forward to welcoming you through our doors once again from Tuesday 1st September.

After a fantastic July, with customers and friends filling the Tea Room with their warmth and happiness, we have closed our doors for our annual Summer break. During this time we are beavering away working on our Macmillan Fundraising Day, dusting the chandeliers and sourcing fabulous new recipes and giftware.

Stay tuned for a big Macmillan announcement later in August as we prepare for another phenomenal fundraising extravaganza. Save the date on Friday 25th September to come along and support this amazing cause. We are looking for bottles and unopened gifts for our tombola, good-quality clothing, paperbacks and homewares for our stalls and any time you can spare to help us out on the day would be greatly appreciated – do let us know if you would like to be involved in any way!

In the meantime, we wish you a fabulous summer, may it be filled with cups of tea in the sunshine, trips to the beach and many bites of delicious cake!