# National Gardens Scheme donates £1.5 million to Macmillan Cancer Support

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2016/03/18/national-gardens-scheme-donates-1-5m-macmillan-cancer-support/
- Published: 2016-03-18T10:51:12+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**The National Gardens Scheme is to donate £1.5 million to Macmillan Cancer Support.
Specifically, the donation, equivalent to the Scheme’s annual £500,000 donation 
to Macmillan for the next three years, will help to fund a state of the art cancer
centre to be named ‘The NGS Macmillan Unit’ at Chesterfield Royal Hospital Derbyshire.**

The new centre will help ensure that no one in Derbyshire, to quote Macmillan’s 
mission, has to face cancer alone. It is due to open in December 2016.

![NGS Macmillan Unit at Chesterfield Royal Hospital](https://wfay6x.infiniteuploads.
cloud/2016/03/macmillan-chesterfield-national-gardens-scheme.jpg)

_An artist’s impression of the NGS Macmillan Unit at Chesterfield Royal Hospital._

 

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## Macmillan’s largest single donor

The [National Gardens Scheme](http://www.ngs.org.uk) (NGS), itself a charity, is
the Macmillan’s largest single donor. It has worked with the charity since 1985,
during which time it has given over £15.2 million to fund 147 Macmillan professional
posts and service projects.

[⌊National Gardens Scheme's Gardens to Visit book 2016⌉⌊National Gardens Scheme's Gardens to Visit book 2016⌉[The donation was announced at the launch of NGS’s [Gardens to Visit 2016](http://amzn.to/1RqrgPw) book. It
is only the second time that its annual donation to the charity has been focused
on one particular Macmillan service. Indeed, it is equivalent to over half of the
£2.5 million Macmillan has committed to raise towards the Chesterfield appeal.

Lynda Thomas, Chief Executive at [Macmillan Cancer Support](http://macmillan.org.uk)
said:

> “This is the second strategic Macmillan build that the NGS has significantly invested
> in, the first being the NGS Macmillan Wellbeing Centre at Bristol Hospital. The
> impact that their support will have on the local community in Chesterfield cannot
> be overestimated; quite simply, their donation has put us well on the way to ensuring
> that no one in Derbyshire faces cancer alone. We are immensely grateful.”

The NGS was established nearly 90 years ago to fund district nurses. This explains
its subsequent support for nursing and caring charities such as Macmillan.

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