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£4m gift delivers cancer support hub for North Wales


September 25, 2025 - 313 views

Philanthropist Steve Morgan has today opened a new cancer support center in North Wales, providing services for cancer patients who previously had to make long journeys out of the area to receive treatment.

Maggie's Center is located at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd Hospital and was funded by the Steve Morgan Foundation.

The Foundation also supported the opening of similar centers on the Wirral and plans for one in Liverpool.

The new centre will support the whole North Wales area which sees 4800 people newly diagnosed with cancer every year. 

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. We have been able to bring Maggie’s to North Wales thanks to the incredible generous support of the Steve Morgan Foundation in commissioning, designing, building and funding our centre, and for that I am so grateful.

“The Steve Morgan Foundation has committed to building three new Maggie’s centres in the North West – including the one in North Wales – which is a truly phenomenal act of philanthropy. I am greatly looking forward to continuing to work with the Steve Morgan Foundation, and Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board to ensure we support as many people as possible from across the whole area.

“Maggie’s is here for everyone who needs it, and we are free with no appointment or referral required. We know this makes a huge difference to helping people cope with their diagnosis: from getting ready for cancer treatment, help with potential side-effects, support after treatment, providing benefits advice, or coping with advanced cancer. I’m delighted that Maggie’s North Wales is now open, and Maggie’s support is available at all three NHS cancer centres in Wales”.

The Steve Morgan Foundation provided £4 million to build the centre in North Wales, and has already commissioned, designed, built and funded Maggie’s, Wirral, which officially opened in the grounds of Clatterbridge Cancer Centre - Wirral in September 2021. In 2024, the centre supported people nearly 20,000 times.

A third Maggie’s centre in Liverpool – set to be built within the grounds of the New Royal Liverpool Hospital next to the new Clatterbridge Cancer Centre in Liverpool – received planning permission last week and is also being built thanks to the Steve Morgan Foundation.

Steve Morgan CBE, Chairman of the Steve Morgan Foundation, said: “It’s wonderful to have the new Maggie’s centre in North Wales open. The new centre will ensure the people of North Wales have easy access to the vital cancer support that Maggie’s provides and we are pleased to be able to make that happen. The ethos of the Foundation is to ‘give money away well’ and our partnership with Maggie’s is a prime example of how we can harness our expertise, practical support and commercial experience to maximise the impact of our financial support.

“We are very excited to see this centre doing what it has been designed to do – supporting people with cancer at possibly the hardest time of their lives – and to continuing our partnership with Maggie’s through the development of the centre in Liverpool.”