The Maggie’s Oldham centre is a place filled with such compassion and warmth for all those in Oldham affected by a cancer diagnosis, despite being located at The Royal Oldham Hospital as soon as you enter it feels distinctly non-clinical and welcoming.
And that’s down to the environment created by the fantastic staff and volunteers, like Trish, Laura and Lynne who I spoke to yesterday.
It was a pleasure to be invited for a tour, and have a lengthy discussion about how the Centre can carry on supporting Oldhamers that have been impacted by a cancer diagnosis.
In the four years that they’ve been open they’ve supported almost 40,000 people already and they want to support even more over the next four years and beyond.
If you’re not already aware of the work they do or you’re interested in helping the charity out head over to their website: maggies.org/Oldham
Jim McMahon OBE MP 