Hundreds of people chipped in to help out charity by sharing a cuppa and some cake on Friday.
Schools, community groups, and businesses across Basingstoke and Hart took part in Macmillan Cancer Support’s annual charity fundraiser, The World’s Biggest Coffee Morning.
The morning saw people boiling their kettles and serving up cups of coffee in return for a donation to the national charity.
St John’s Church on London Road, Hook, saw up to 50 people turn out and the group raised more than £250.
Shirley Clancy, who runs the church’s coffee shop, said the community had turned out in force to mark the day.
“It has been lovely, and it has been so well supported. Everyone we have spoken to are for Macmillan," she said. "You don’t have to say what it is because everybody knows and believes in it.”
She was joined by Moira Montgomery from Hook, who has held a coffee morning for 14 years consecutively.
She said: “I have supported the mornings because my family all have died because of cancer. If you do not make an effort to keep going it will stop, so its important to keep up support.
“It is a big community get together, and the event has grown over the years.”
Since the first coffee morning in 1990, in which 2,600 people took part, the event has grown year-on-year and bagged up to £60m the organisation. According to Macmillan’s regional fundraising manager Jan Treacher-Evans, last year’s event had more than 2.3m people take part across the country and raised £8.1m.
And in 2009 across Basingstoke and north Hampshire £24,327 was raised from 176 different coffee mornings.
The charity hopes to trump last years record breaking total of £8.1m raised with a target of £8.5m.
And Basingstoke firm, Two Guys Kitchens in Daneshill, raised a whopping £510 from 65 people who turned up to the event.
Managing director Tony Marshall, from South Warnboroug,h said the company would match the donation.
He said: “Over the last couple of years I have lost a few friends to cancer. Everybody in their lives will be touched in some way by the disease.”
