Every year, more than 300,000 people are diagnosed with cancer in the UK, facing tough questions, exhausting treatment and difficult emotions. These challenges affect not only those with cancer but also their family and friends, too. Providing free practical, emotional and social support for people with cancer, and their family and friends, Maggie's follows the ideas about cancer care originally laid out by Maggie Keswick Jencks.

Built in the grounds of NHS cancer hospitals, Maggie’s Centres are places with professional staff on hand to offer the support people need. Our centres are places to find practical advice about benefits and eating well; places where qualified experts provide emotional support; places to meet other people; places where you can simply sit in peace and quiet. Our core programme of support is based on evidence and has been shown to improve physical and emotional wellbeing during treatment and recovery.

During our next period of growth to 2020, we will increase our centres to 30 and grow the number of visitors we support to more than 300,000 people a year. Our aim is that every one of the 61 major NHS cancer centres that needs a Maggie’s can have one. Almost half have no dedicated cancer support provision and we seek to fill the gaps where populations are underserved. As cancer will touch even more of us in our lifetime, we want everyone who needs it to have access to the support Maggie’s offers.

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