Welcome to Maggie's Oxford

Maggie’s Oxford took over an existing cancer support service at the Churchill Hospital and from this base we are bringing Maggie’s programme to the area.  

We want anyone affected by cancer to have this unique, uplifting Maggie’s Centre, and in the meantime to know all that we are already open to welcome people to the temporary centre where we offer our well-established and pioneering programme of cancer support.

We are open Monday to Friday, 9.30am to 4pm for information, psychological and emotional support. We have a resident psychologist and a team of cancer support specialists on hand for drop-in and pre-booked appointments and courses.

We have welcomed two new members of staff to Maggie’s Oxford: Kerry Davies, welfare and benefits advisor, who has come as a result of a partnership between Macmillan, the CAB and Maggie’s, and Sandy Briscoe, our new Community Fundraiser, who is busy raising awareness and money for the campaign to build Maggie’s Oxford.

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 are working towards raising £3 million for this Centre which will be built at the Churchill Hospital, Oxford.

To get a purpose-built Maggie’s for Oxford, we need to raise £3 million. We need your support to build Maggie’s Oxford and to have it open, free of charge, for anyone who needs it.

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. 

To contact our community fundraiser for Maggie's Oxford email Sandy on sandy@maggiescentres.org

Find out more about how we are building our Maggie's Network through the Joy of Living Campaign.

About the area

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

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 in the area per annum.

Maggie’s Oxford has had an interim facility on site since 2005.

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.