This week saw Encore's Facilities Officer, Michelle Allen, and her team of fearless bakers don their aprons and dust down their rolling pins to whisk up coffee and cakes at the company's head office - all in support of Macmillan Cancer Support's 'World's Biggest Coffee Morning'.

Encore directors Stephen Chard and Neil Robinson joined colleagues for the event on Friday morning, where everything from jam scones, carrot cake and banana buns, to cherry flapjack and rock cakes was for sale. With two Macmillan-run competitions also well supported, final donations totalled in excess of £200.

In 2013, 154,000 people took part and raised an astonishing £20million. The charity said: "Cancer is the toughest fight most of us will ever face. And as treatments improve, more and more people are living with cancer in their daily lives.

"The money raised at the coffee morning will help make sure no one has to face cancer alone, from the moment they're diagnosed, through treatment and beyond."