Welcome to Maggie's Highlands

Maggie's Highlands is located at Raigmore Hospital, Inverness.  Anyone affected by cancer is welcome to drop in to the Centre for a cup of tea and a chat with one of our information and support specialists, to browse the library or to access one of the courses designed to help people live with, through and beyond the disease. 

The Centre was officially opened on 7 June 2005 by Carol McGregor and Andy Kerr, Minister for Health.  Since its opening, the Centre is visited on average by 30 people a day and provides a vital service for people affected by cancer in the Highlands area.

Andy Kerr said at the opening: "This is a magnificent new Centre which I have no doubt will be a haven for people affected by cancer.  Maggie's Centres provide valuable support for anybody who has, or has been affected by cancer.  I want to congratulate everyone involved in making this new facility a reality for the people of the Highlands."

Carol McGregor said at the opening: "These Centres are so beautiful and so well designed, you get this personal feeling as you walk in... There are lots of ideas I would like in my own house, such as the beautiful floors and the pink settees!"

Laura Lee, Maggie's Chief Executive hopes that the look of the building and landscape will help Highlanders visit the Centre.  "I hope people will let curiosity get the better of them and come in through the door and find a space which the architect David Page has created. A man, who is a local user of the Centre, was telling me about how it had affected him. He said the building communicated to him the sense of being hugged.  He added that he was not usually the sort of person who was drawn to that sort of impressions about buildings."

Maggie's Highlands was designed by Scottish architect, David Page of Page \ Park, and the surrounding landscape by Maggie's husband, Charles Jencks.

Find out more about the impact of the cancer support programme Maggie's offers in this video.