People all over the country are putting the kettle on and baking a cake for the World's Biggest Coffee Morning.

The annual event raises money for Macmillan to make sure no one faces cancer alone.

A host of events are taking place all over Dorset and the New Forest over the coming weeks.

Here are just a few of the coffee mornings taking place.

You can search for events happening near you and request your own coffee morning kit at coffee.macmillan.org.uk

If you're hosting a coffee morning, we'd love to see your pictures.

Email them to digital@bournemouthecho.co.uk 

1. Meyrick Rise Care Home on Friday, September 30. The charity event takes place from 2pm at the home in Branksome Wood Road and it is open to anyone who would like to take a look around or enjoy some food and drink for charity. For more information, call Meyrick Rise Care Home on 01202 065 319.

2. A coffee morning comes to WI hall on Ramley Road in Pennington, from 10am-12pm, Saturday, October 1.

3. The Eventide Homes at Castle Lane West will be supporting Macmillan Cancer Care by taking part in the World’s Biggest Coffee Morning. The event is on Friday, September 30, 10am-12noon, and will include craft stalls, a raffle, a tombola and cakes. All are welcome.

4. Candlelight Care’s Wimborne office is taking part in the World’s Biggest Coffee Morning for Macmillan Cancer Support on Tuesday, October 4. The event runs from 11am-3pm at the Candlelight Care office at 4 Kings Court in the High Street, and all are welcome. It coincides with their fifth anniversary supporting people in the Wimborne and Poole area.

5. Shelley Theatre in Beechwood Avenue, Boscombe, will be staging a coffee morning on Saturday, October 1, from 11am to 2pm.

6. Dexter Sports Youth Football Club are hosting a coffee morning at their clubhouse at Learoyd Road on Saturday, September 24, from 10am-2pm.

7. Churchill Retirement Living is holding a coffee morning at Priory Lodge, in Stony Lane South, Christchurch, on Wednesday, September 28. Visitors will be treated to coffee, cakes and biscuits in the Owners’ Lounge, and the company will donate £5 to Macmillan for every visitor who attends. The event takes place at 11am.

8. Hilda Coles Open Learning Centre at the Priest’s House Museum & Garden puts on an event on Wednesday September 28 from 10am to 1pm. 

9. Coffee mornings will be taking place as part of cancer information outreach sessions at Broadstone Library on Tuesday, September 27 from 10am until 12pm and Kinson Library on Friday, September 30, from 2.30pm until 4pm. 

10. Nationwide Building Society will be holding events at their Swanage, Wimborne, West Moors and Ferndown branches on Friday, September 30 from 9am. Then at 10am on the same day, events will take place at the Poole High Street, Wareham, Boscombe and Canford Cliffs branches. All are welcome.

11. The Snack Box at the Post Office in Hamworthy on Friday, September 23 from 10am. There will be a raffle, book stall, bric-a-brac stall. Everyone is welcome.

12. Pavilion Dance will be holding a coffee morning at their Terrace cafe outside the Pavilion Theatre from 10am on Friday, September 30. 

13. Westbourne Bookshop is hosting an event on Saturday, September 24, from 10.30am. 

14. Twynham Church in Christchurch will have a bouncy castle, cake decorating competition, face painting, tattoos and more at their coffee morning on Saturday, September 24 from 1pm. 

15. Marks and Spencer at Castlepoint and Bournemouth town centre will be holding events on Friday, September 30 from 10am. 

16. The Wool Shop in Kinson will be holding a coffee morning between 10am and 12pm on FridayFriday, September 30. There will be homemade cakes and a raffle.