The Big Space Cancer Appeal - Help us transform cancer care in Gloucestershire

The Big Space Cancer Appeal

We are incredibly proud to launch The Big Space Cancer Appeal; raising funds for a new cancer centre that will offer local patients the very best environment for treatment, healing and recovery.

We have a vision for a wonderful new home. But we need your help to make this dream a reality.

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a designated Regional Cancer Centre and has provided specialist cancer care for people in our community for more than 60 years supporting hundreds of thousands of local people to receive the best care there is to offer. Many of the current facilities are over 25 years old and a new modern building is needed to care for future generations.

The first phase of the project is to build a new space at Cheltenham General Hospital to improve the environment inside and out for patients and staff. There will be modern consulting rooms complete with new digital technology, space for innovation and research trials as well as a new therapeutic garden. Existing facilities in the current Oncology Centre will also be upgraded as part of the second phase of the project.

The clinical team have been heavily involved in the design of a comfortable, welcoming building at Cheltenham General Hospital that will transform the care experience of everyone who needs to come here. Our new cancer care centre will be bigger, better and brighter. This brand-new, cutting-edge care facility will be a warm, welcoming space that will help the treatment and healing of all who come here.

Our Appeal Video

Our Vision

Space to Care
New, larger rooms and spaces will keep families together. The modern design will enable great teamwork and more efficiency for our clinical staff, allowing more local people access to our exemplary care service. The patient-centred design will mean less time spent waiting and moving around; reducing visit durations, increasing the number of patients who can be seen each day, and helping to reduce waiting times.

Space to Talk
Many life-changing conversations will happen in our new home. A diagnosis, a test result - or an ‘all clear!’ - each is a personal, private moment between patient and clinician. Our new home will have many rooms in which these conversations and moments will happen.

Space to Think
Many patients need space and time to take in and process the conversations they will have with our team – both in sad and happy times. The new centre will contain large, calm rooms for families to sit together following a consultation or diagnosis. These rooms, filled with natural light, will be a place where loved ones can gather in mutual support.

Space to Recover
Our new home will have space to recover - where patients can sit and rest and have a cup of tea or a cold drink, after receiving treatment. A completely new waiting area will over a large, open space for patients and family members to wait together in comfort. Floor to ceiling windows will run along the new build and open out onto beautiful gardens.

Space to Rest
We know that coming to a cancer treatment centre, especially for the first time, can be a daunting and stressful experience. That’s why we want our new home to clearly show that this is a place of hope, healing and rest. The whole building, thoughtfully decorated, will provide the tasteful, restful healing environment every cancer patient needs.

Space to Innovate
Our cancer care centre gives cancer patients the opportunity to take part in cutting-edge research trials that have helped to improve the diagnosis and treatment of cancer patients all across the UK. The new building will transform this aspect of our work too; by providing new, practical spaces in which clinicians can learn and innovate.

Ways you can support

Almost £8.5m has already been raised towards the project thanks to donations from individuals and businesses as well as NHS funding. Now, we are asking the Gloucestershire community to come together to help raise the remaining £9m needed to fund both the new build and transformation of existing facilities.

We want to transform cancer care in Gloucestershire. If you would like to support the appeal, please visit our donation page or call 0300 422 3231.

There are also many other ways you can support:

• Organise your own fundraising event or sign up for a fundraising challenge. Check our events page and create your JustGiving page
• Are you a local business? Why not support our 2025 Pride of Gloucestershire sculpture trail - Lions at Large
• Nominate us as your charity of the year
• Support us by leaving a gift in your will
• Volunteer your time for The Big Space Cancer Appeal