STEVE MORGAN FOUNDATION

Making a difference . . .

THE Steve Morgan Foundation aims to make a real difference by changing the lives of thousands of people across the region.

Founded by Steve Morgan CBE in 2001, the Foundation supports projects that help children and families, people with physical or learning disabilities, the elderly, and the socially disadvantaged across North Wales, Merseyside and Cheshire.

More than £50m has so far been awarded to over 650 charities and organisations, and this number will increase dramatically over the coming years after Steve committed £250m additional funding to the Foundation in 2017.

Enable Funding for individuals was also introduced

to provide grants for adults and children with disabilities in financial hardship, who require specialised equipment.

There are three types of funding available for organisations which fit the application criteria:

n Major grants and one-off capital funding for

large projects;

n Regional grant funding; n Enable Funding for specialised equipment, which

includes the brand new Smiley Buses.

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Morgan’s pride at new ELATED: Dame Laura Lee and Steve Morgan Maggie’s centre

PHILANTHROPIST Steve Morgan spoke of his “overwhelming pride” as he formally opened the brand new purpose-built Maggie’s Wirral at the Steve Morgan Foundation Building in the grounds of Clatterbridge Cancer Centre, Wirral.

The centre was commissioned, designed, built and funded by the Steve Morgan Foundation to replace the previous interim centre which opened in 2014, and has given the charity more space.

Mr Morgan CBE, chairman of the Steve Morgan Foundation, said: “I feel a sense of overwhelming pride at opening Maggie’s Wirral at the Steve Morgan Foundation Building.

“When my wife Sally first introduced the foundation to Maggie’s all those years ago we had no idea that it would be the start of a journey that would end with the opening of this wonderful facility.

“The centre is welcoming, calm and peaceful. It’s a place where patients and their families can relax and reflect away from home or hospital whilst gaining the emotional or practical support they may need. ”

Dame Laura Lee, chief executive at Maggie’s, said: “It’s fantastic to be here for the formal opening of our new Wirral centre. We couldn’t have done it without the extremely generous support of the Steve Morgan Foundation.

“Their support in commissioning, designing, building and funding this centre, as well as two others – a brand new Maggie’s to be developed on the grounds of the New Royal Liverpool Hospital in the city centre, and another in North Wales – is the only way we would have been able to support as many people as possible across the region. ”

HAPPY MEMORIES: The new sensory garden

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NOT EVEN torrential rain could dampen the spirits at the opening of a special garden for people with dementia.

The High Sheriff of Merseyside, the Mayors of Knowsley and Halewood and Jane Harris, director of regional grants at the Steve Morgan Foundation, were among those attending the opening of Knowsley Dementia Care Support’s sensory garden. The garden at the back of Liverpool’sArncliffe Centre was made possible thanks to a grant of £72,000 from the Steve Morgan Foundation. Jane Harris said: “The number of people with dementia is increasing so the work of organisations like Knowsley Dementia Care Support is so important. ” Pat Mairs, who founded Knowsley Dementia Care Support Memory Lane CIC in 2014, said: “The garden offers a safe place for people with dementia and their carers to go. It will be open for the community as well. ” Finlay’s riding high, thanks to Enable grant

FINLAY Woodcock-Daniels is having the time of his life after the Steve Morgan Foundation paid for a new wheelchair bike.

The 15-year-old from Hoole, Chester, has cerebral palsy and was unable to go on cycling trips with his mumAlexa and siblings Rafferty (14) and 11-year-old Freya. Thanks to an Enable Fund grant of £7,545, Finlay’s family have been able to buy a top-of-the-range Van Raam OPair wheelchair bike that has given him a new lease of life. n The Steve Morgan Foundation Enable

Fund supports people of all ages in financial hardship who are in need of specialised equipment.

Sad loss

THE Steve Morgan Foundation was saddened to hear of the death of Nick “Hoppy” Hopkinson, the former High Sheriff of Cheshire.

Last year “Hoppy” and the Steve Morgan Foundation worked together to support Cheshire Community Foundation’s Covid-19 Response Fund.

Steve Morgan CBE, chairman of the Steve Morgan Foundation, said: “It’s absolutely devastating news, we’ve lost a true friend. ”

Steve’s wife Sally, a trustee of the Foundation, added: “Nick was a big supporter of the Steve Morgan Foundation. He recently sent us his congratulations on reaching our 20th anniversary and said he was ‘proud’to be our friends, we were equally proud to be his. ”