Maggie’s Chief Executive Laura Lee said: “I am very pleased to announce these two appointments at Maggie’s. Stephen George will be joining us as Revenue Fundraising Director, and Glen Fendley will be the Capital Fundraising Director. Maggie’s has always believed in tailoring whatever we do to the specific need that we face. This is a unique structure for a unique opportunity at a unique time, and both Stephen and Glen are looking forward to the exciting challenge ahead. I feel incredibly lucky to have been able to recruit such talented and respected people to take on these positions. With six Maggie’s Centres now open and seven more centres being built over the next two years, it will be vital to have Glen's and Stephen's wealth of knowledge and experience at Maggie’s.”

Stephen George joins Maggie’s as Revenue Fundraising Director. With more than 25 years in three major charities in a variety of roles - Scope, Unicef, NSPCC – Stephen is well known for his specialism in and strategic championing of community, legacies and individual giving fundraising.

Stephen leaves his post as Development Director for Legacy Fundraising at NSPCC to join Maggie’s this month. Stephen joined the NSPCC as Director of Community Appeals in 1998 where he was responsible for local fundraising, schools and national events across the UK. In 1999, when their Full Stop Appeal was launched, Stephen managed the appeal in the Regions where £55 million of the appeal total was raised. Before joining the NSPCC, he was Head of Regional Fundraising at Unicef for three years and prior to that spent 12 years in a range of fundraising and management roles at Scope. Whilst at Maggie’s Stephen will continue in his role of Chair at Remember a Charity – a consortium of 140 charities promoting legacies.

Stephen George said: “I am looking forward to joining Maggie’s at this crucial stage in their growth. They are moving from being a small, innovative, charity that punches above its weight, to one with national ambitions and reach. This is an exciting moment in their development, and it will be a joy to bring my experience of working with some of the UK’s largest and most respected charities to help Maggie’s achieve their aims to positively transform the experience of people affected by cancer across the UK. I am a great believer in the power of uniting communities to instil change. Maggie’s growth to date and model of cancer caring already galvanises this momentum and I look forward to the challenge of helping grow an amazing organisation to achieve great things”.

Glen Fendley, joins Maggie’s as Capital Fundraising Director. With over 15 years’ professional experience working in diverse not-for-profit environments, Glen will bring a remarkable array of understanding and skills to the organisation. His forté has been to specialise in achieving challenging income targets in major gifts. Maggie’s will offer ample opportunity in this area with our ambitious aims to be the leading network of independent centres supporting people to live with, through and beyond cancer. Over the last few years Glen has consulted for senior volunteers and management within leading academic, international, wildlife and cancer charities to support them in creating and delivering significant and successful funding strategies and operational plans. As co-author of the Institute of Fundraising's Major Gift Fundraising Code of Practice he appreciates the importance of being entrepreneurial while also adhering to, and indeed setting, appropriate sector standards.

Glen Fendley said: “Everything about Maggie’s is innovative. I am looking forward to building on the excellent fundraising foundations that are already in place to develop a major capital fundraising programme that befits the ambitions and brand of Maggie’s. I am personally motivated to raise the bar for cancer care in this country and am positive that growing Maggie’s network of independent centres is the way to do this. I recently spent a week at Maggie's Dundee to experience and learn about the programme Maggie’s provides - speaking to the folks there gave me all the confirmation I needed about the value of Maggie’s cancer care and how crucial it is that this becomes available nationwide. I am also really looking forward to working alongside Stephen again and I speak for both of us when I say that having the opportunity to work together has been an added bonus in this whole move. Together we are looking forward to growing our great fundraising team so as to positively transform the face of cancer care in the UK now.”


Notes to Editors

• Founded in 1996 Maggie’s has been pioneering a new concept of cancer support in the UK providing help, information and guidance to all people personally affected by cancer, as well as friends and family, all free of charge. To date six centres have been designed by leading architects including Richard Murphy, Page and Park, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid and most recently Richard Rogers, who’s London Centre received the RIBA Stirling Prize in 2009.

• Built in the grounds of NHS hospitals in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee, Fife, Highlands and London the projects are based on the vision of the late Maggie Keswick Jencks who, whilst being treated for cancer at the hospital, identified the need for cancer patients to access emotional and psychological support.

• Maggie’s Centres work closely with the oncology units at the NHS hospitals where they have centres to ensure that the information and support it provides complements the treatment given in the hospital. Indeed, Maggie’s has developed its network of centres throughout the UK upon the request of NHS Trusts and Health Boards.

• On average, each centre costs £3 million to build and run for the first two years. Maggie’s relies completely on voluntary donations and the future seven centres have been supported by individuals, community groups, trusts, and statutory and corporate donations. Maggie’s would like to thank everyone who has supported this impressive fundraising campaign.

• The future centres are:
Maggie’s Cotswolds – Sir Richard MacCormac CBE, MJP Architects – Autumn 2010
Landscape designs by Dr Christine Facer
Maggie’s Gartnavel, Glasgow – OMA – Summer 2011
Landscape designs by Lily Jencks
Maggie’s South West Wales – the late Dr Kisho Kurokawa, ArBITAT architects – Autumn 2011
Maggie’s Oxford – Chris Wilkinson, Wilkinson Eyre Architects – Autumn 2011
Landscape designs by Flora Gathorne-Hardy
Maggie’s Nottingham – Piers Gough CBE of CZWG Architects – Winter 2011
Maggie’s North East – Ted Cullinan CBE, Edward Cullinan Architects – Spring 2012
Maggie’s Lanarkshire – Neil Gillespie, of Reiach and Hall – Spring 2012