Maggie’s Centre holds Kitchen Table Day 

Trish Morgan, at Maggie’s Oldham Kitchen Table

Cancer charity Maggie’s Oldham is encouraging friends, families and colleagues to create events around their kitchen table, be it at work or home on 29 March, or a day that works for you.

From dinner parties and games nights to coffee mornings and bake sales, the choice is yours. Maggie’s Kitchen Table Day 2019 is a chance to gather together and raise money for people with cancer.

Maggie’s Oldham 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 Centres are individually designed by leading architects to feel like a home and all have a big kitchen table at their heart.  

New visitors to Maggie’s Oldham often head first for the kitchen table. 

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, 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 is leading the way and holding her own Kitchen Table Day event, she said: “I'm hosting a dinner party at mine and I'm going to ask my friends to donate what we'd usually pay for a meal out to Maggie's. I'm loving that I can team up catching up with my friends, with supporting our wonderful centre. It's great! There's just one problem, I have no idea what to cook yet.

“I hope everyone will follow in my footsteps and I’m looking forward to seeing what events people can come up with! For me nothing symbolises Maggie’s more than the kitchen table and we recognise the importance of this at the centre. Maggie’s Oldham relies entirely on voluntary donations to allow us to keep on developing our unique programme of free support for all those living with cancer in the area.”

Gather together around your kitchen table on Friday 29 March to raise money for Maggie’s. Register now for your free pack at:

• www.maggiescentres.org/kitchentableday