Steve Morgan opens new cancer support centre in North Wales

We are thrilled to have opened our new Maggie’s Centre in North Wales, ready to welcome and support people living with cancer.

Maggie’s North Wales at the Steve Morgan Foundation Building, built in the grounds of Glan Clwyd Hospital in Bodelwyddan, Denbighshire, has been completely commissioned, designed and funded by the Foundation following our £4 million investment. The new centre will support the whole North Wales area which sees 4800 people newly diagnosed with cancer every year.

The North Wales centre is the second of three Maggie’s Centres to be fully funded by the Foundation; Maggie’s Wirral officially opened in the grounds of Clatterbridge Cancer Centre in September 2021 and our third centre in Liverpool has recently received planning permission to be built within the grounds of the New Royal Liverpool Hospital.

Steve Morgan said:

“It’s wonderful to have this new Maggie’s centre open, ensuring the people of North Wales have easy access to vital cancer support and we are pleased to be able to make that happen.

Our partnership with Maggie’s is a prime example of how we can harness our expertise and practical support to maximise the impact of our financial support.

Dame Laura Lee, DBE, Chief Executive of Maggie’s said:

“We are delighted our new centre in Denbighshire is open and that we are now able to support people living with cancer, including family and friends, from across North Wales.

It’s thanks to the generosity of the Steve Morgan Foundation and their commitment to Maggie’s, that we have been able to bring our service to this region.”

Find out more about Maggie’s North Wales and how you can support the centre here.

Maggie’s cancer support centre in Liverpool to be built with £5 million from the Steve Morgan Foundation

Planning permission has been granted for our new Maggie’s cancer support centre in Liverpool. Commissioned, designed and funded by the Steve Morgan Foundation, the centre is the first project confirmed on the site of the old Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

We provided £5 million in funding and worked with HB Architects to design the centre, which will provide free practical, psychological and emotional support for people with cancer, as well as their family and friends, from across Merseyside.

We have already commissioned, designed, built and funded Maggie’s in Wirral which opened in September 2021, and Maggie’s North Wales which will open in September 2025.

Out of the 2.8 million people in Cheshire and Merseyside about 17,000 people are newly diagnosed with cancer every year– both figures are higher than the England average.

Dame Laura Lee, Chief Executive of Maggie’s said: “The Steve Morgan Foundation’s incredibly generous support in commissioning, designing, funding and building has fast tracked our ability to bring Maggie’s to Liverpool and for that I am so grateful. The Steve Morgan Foundation’s commitment to building three new Maggie’s centres – including the one in Liverpool – is a truly phenomenal act of philanthropy.”

Steve Morgan said: “We are delighted to have received planning approval for our third Maggie’s centre in the region. Our partnership with Maggie’s highlights the power of collaboration and the Foundation’s ability to ‘give well’ by harnessing our expertise, practical support and commercial experience to maximise the impact of our financial support.”

Maggie’s has nearly 30 years’ experience of supporting people with free cancer support and information in centres across the UK. The charity puts people with cancer at the heart of everything they do and believes that everyone should have access to professional psychological and emotional support to help change the way they live with cancer.

Read the full story and find out more about Maggie’s here.

Regional grant awarded to Liverpool School Sports Partnership

£208,000 awarded to Liverpool School Sports Partnership (LSSP) as it celebrates 25^th anniversary.

Our regional grant marks the start of its mission to offer a net-zero cost service to affiliated schools in Liverpool.

LSSP is a not-for-profit organisation that works with schools in Liverpool to enhance and develop sporting and wellbeing initiatives for children and young people. This one-year grant will support its ongoing work to ensure school sport is accessible for all.

With many schools citing the ever-increasing costs associated with sport as a major barrier for participation, LSSP will use our grant to offer its Enhanced Membership Package to schools at a significantly reduced rate, which is expected to save schools currently in its network a combined total of over a quarter of a million pounds, whilst continuing to create equal opportunities for all young people to take part in a variety of high-quality sport and wellbeing intervention programmes.

Ruth Dixon, our Regional Grants Manager, said: “The work LSSP completes across Liverpool is vital. Having been out to see its team in action, we’ve witnessed the incredible role its coaches and staff have in making a positive impact on children and young people’s health and wellbeing. We are delighted to support such a worthwhile organisation and are excited to follow its journey.”

A proportion of the grant will also be used to hire a new member of staff who will deliver its 12-week intervention programme, ‘I AM’, into secondary schools to equip students with practical coping strategies designed to build resilience, improve emotional regulation, and reduce negative behaviours that affect learning and wellbeing.

Joint CEO at LSSP, Jimmy McGinn, commented: “We are absolutely delighted to have been awarded this grant and on behalf of everyone at LSSP, I would like to extend a heartfelt thanks to the team at the Steve Morgan Foundation. The money will profoundly impact the lives of all young people across Liverpool.”