Work has begun this week on a new £6m Maggie’s Centre at the Christie Hospital in Withington.
The Centre is being built in partnership with The Christie to provide additional support for people with cancer and their family and friends across Greater Manchester. The Centre, designed by Lord Norman Foster who was born and grew up in Manchester, will be Maggie’s 19th Centre across the UK, online and abroad and is anticipated to be the charity’s biggest and busiest Centre to date.
Every year 50,000 people are diagnosed with cancer across Greater Manchester, facing tough questions, exhausting treatment and difficult emotions that can range from anxiety to loneliness and isolation. These challenges affect not only those with cancer, but their family and friends too.
Working in partnership with The Christie the new Maggie’s Centre will significantly enhance the cancer support already offered across the region and expects receive visits from 60,000 people a year from across Greater Manchester once established.
The first Maggie’s centre opened inEdinburgh in 1996. There are now 18 Centres across the UK, online and abroad, with more planned for the future.
Maggie’s offers free emotional, practical and social support to people with cancer and their family and friends. Built in the grounds of specialist NHS cancer hospitals, the Centres are warm and welcoming places, with qualified professionals on hand to offer a programme of support that has been shown to improve physical and emotional wellbeing.
