Local cancer support charity Maggie's Oldham is encouraging people to get together with their friends, families, communities and workplaces on Friday 25 March to fundraise for Maggie's Kitchen Table Day.
Fundraising events can be something as simple as a bake sale or games night – anything centred around a kitchen table to raise funds for the centre which provides vital support to people living with cancer in Oldham and the surrounding areas.
The centre offers free practical and psychological support to people with cancer and their family and friends. Support is available from professional staff in the centre, online and over the phone.
The kitchen table is often the first stop for new visitors to Maggie’s Oldham. Here they can relax with a cup of tea, perhaps join in the conversation and meet a member of Maggie’s professional staff. For all centre visitors, the Maggie’s kitchen table is a place where they can talk to people who really understand what it means to be living with cancer.
Trish Morgan, Centre Head at Maggie’s Oldham, said: “It has been a difficult couple of years for everyone, so hosting a Kitchen Table Day is great opportunity for people to get together safely, to have fun and raise funds to help us to support people with cancer and their family and friends at a very hard time in their lives.”
Hundreds of Kitchen Table Days will be held nationwide with people everywhere helping to raise money for family and friends living with cancer.
Every Maggie’s follows the ideas about cancer care originally laid out by Maggie Keswick Jencks. Maggie lived with advanced cancer for two years and was determined that she should not “lose the joy of living in the fear of dying”.
In order to live more positively with cancer, Maggie believed people needed information, stress-reducing strategies, psychological support and the opportunity to meet other people in similar circumstances in a relaxed and beautiful setting. All Maggie’s are individually designed by leading architects to feel like a home and all have a big kitchen table at their heart.
Host your kitchen table event – while following government guidelines - on Friday 25 March to raise money for people with cancer. People can register now for your free pack, t-shirt and bunting at maggies.org/kitchentableday
People can also share photos of their event on social media using the hashtag #kitchentableday
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