A KEIGHLEY manufacturer has raised £1,000 for Macmillan Cancer Support.

Workers at Powerrun Pipe-Mech staged a coffee morning in support of the charity.

And the company, which is based at Crown Works Business Centre in Sunderland Street, added a contribution to achieve the four-figure sum.

Aidan Chippendale, finance director at Powerrun Pipe-Mech, says: "We have individuals within our organisation who have been directly affected by cancer.

"We think it is important to support charities like Macmillan, which do such great work. The invaluable help they give wouldn’t be achievable without donations, and we are happy to play a small part in making this happen.

"We wanted to make it a bit special, and various members of staff wore pink in support of an employee who beat breast cancer."

Purchasing manager Lorna Brown donated some leftover cakes and buns from the coffee morning to Oxenhope Sue Ryder hospice Manorlands.

Aidan adds: "As most people brought buns and cakes there were quite a lot left, so Lorna decided to go one step further and donate some to Manorlands, where they were gratefully accepted for staff and patients."

The UK-wide Macmillan Coffee Morning initiative began in 1990, and it has become the charity's biggest fundraising event.

Last year, the venture raised more than £18 million.

For more about Macmillan Cancer Support, visit macmillan.org.uk