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.