Maggie's centre plan for Dumfries stalled by NHS charity bosses

Campaigners are left frustrated after endowment fund trustees refuse to fund the cancer care centre.

Plans to build a Maggie's centre in Dumfries have stalled after NHS charity bosses refused to fund the project.

BBC Scotland News has not been able to obtain the minutes of that meeting but NHS Dumfries and Galloway confirmed the decision. "The board conveyed their disappointment to Maggie’s that the proposal could not be brought to fruition at this time," the spokesman added. "The trustees have taken it on themselves to dictate that Maggie's request falls outside their self-imposed limits of spending. I am unaware of anything in the endowment fund's constitution that supports that position."Some people with cancer in Dumfries and Galloway travel to the Maggie's centre in Edinburgh

And they say it would be a tribute to Maggie Keswick Jencks, the Dumfries native who inspired the charity set up in her name. Mr Walls said: "The fight for a centre in Dumfries goes on.... I know there is a continuing desire to have a centre near to where Maggie Jencks lived.

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