Welcome to Maggie's Oxford

Maggie’s Oxford is an interim service, operating from a portacabin on the Churchill Hospital site until we move into our new purpose built building next to the new Cancer Centre on the other side of the hospital site.

We are open Monday to Friday, 9.00am to 5pm for information, psychological and emotional support and benefits advice. We have a clinical psychologist, a cancer support specialist and a benefits advisor on hand for drop-in and pre-booked appointments and courses.

Lisa Robinson, Community Fundraiser for Maggie's Cheltenham and Maggie's Oxford, is busy raising awareness and funds for the campaign to build and run the centre.

Click here to watch a video and find out more about Maggie's programme of cancer support and its impact.

Maggie’s Oxford forms part of the Joy of Living campaign: we have raised almost £3 million for the new centre which will soon be built.

More than a million people are served by the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust and its cancer services, and there are 4,000 new diagnosis of cancers here a year.

For further information please contact Jillian Steele, jillian.steele@maggiescentres.org or Lisa Robinson, lisa.robinson@maggiescentres.org.

About the area

Maggie’s Oxford works alongside the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust, which serves over a million people. It also sits at the heart of the Thames Valley Cancer Network, which covers Oxfordshire and its surrounding counties and serves a population of 2.5 million people.

The Architect

“Our design encapsulates the philosophy and principles on which the Maggie’s Centres are based - the tree house concept maximises the relationship between the internal space and the external landscape offering discreet spaces for relaxation, information and therapy, it will provide a sympathetic and caring retreat, in tune with its surroundings."

Chris Wilkinson of Wilkinson Eyre

Design

Wilkinson Eyre, whose dramatic designs have won the prestigious RIBA Stirling prize twice, have created a timber tree house design for Maggie’s Oxford.

In response to the wooded site, the concept is based around a treehouse, supported on stilts with a faceted, angular geometry which maximises the relationship between the inside spaces and its natural wildlife setting.

Landscape Architect

Topio Landscape practice celebrates the art of place. Founded by Flora Gathorne-Hardy, it is rooted in an ecological approach to the nature of place and its communities.

Topio's response to the Maggie's Centre, Oxford, integrates the Boundary Brook Nature Reserve and Warneford Meadow with the innovative tree house building, as well as making a relationship between Maggie's new community and the existing local groups who are connected to this place.