Tips for a successful Coffee Break
These hints and tips will help you make sure that your event is a great success:
- Choose a date that’s suitable for everybody and let people know in plenty of time.
- Where will your Coffee Break be held – at work, at home or in your local church hall or community centre?
- What time will it be? Is it a charity coffee morning, or a mid-afternoon break?
- Refreshments! Ask family, friends or colleagues to donate tasty treats for your Coffee Break. What else will you need – cups, plates, napkins, collecting tins?
- How will you raise funds? You could charge for refreshments, or ask for a donation to attend, can you get raffle prizes to boost your fundraising?
- Tell everyone! Use email, posters, Intranet at work, social media.
Fun activity ideas
These simple games won’t take a latte trouble to set up!
Guess the number of coffee beans in a jar
Fill a jar with coffee beans, ask people to guess the number of beans (or weight of the jar), closest wins the beans to make great coffee at home!
Roll a coin to the coffee beans
Place a jar of coffee beans (a different jar!) on the floor with a big space around it, set up a starting line and ask people to roll a £1 coin to the jar and the closest wins the jar. The coins can all be donations to the British Liver Trust.
Heads or Tails
Ask people for £1 to play Heads or Tails. Toss a coin and everyone at your Coffee Break has to choose Heads or Tails (placing their hands on their head or bottom), through a process of elimination there can only be one winner, who can claim the prize!
Guess the baby
Ask everybody to bring a photo of themselves as a baby and each person has to guess which baby is which person. Ask for a donation to take part.