Renovate Bannon House – Project Cancer Support

A cancer diagnosis comes with many questions, changes, and worries. Where you turn to for support shouldn’t be one of them. Imagine having a dedicated haven where complimentary non-medical services and support programs are offered to help you live better with cancer. The Friends Foundation is raising $1 Million to ensure this dream will become a reality in 2025.

Recently the Friends Foundation was gifted a home on MacBeath Avenue named Bannon House in honour of our generous donor. Once transformed, this space will be a unique resource hub for those living with cancer to gather, lean on peers for support, find strength, connect and forge relationships all while acquiring vital information and skills to help those coping with this disease.

We will provide a caring community, in-person and online, so anyone living with cancer, their caregivers, and family members can access vital information, meaningful support, and effective coping strategies. We will do all this while providing our programs and services free of charge and without referral. Our services will be administered in a cost-effective manner, using oncology experts supported by well-trained volunteers, and in partnership with other charities in the community.

Initial programs—Peer Support, Exercise & Movement, Cancer Fatigue, Relaxation & Meditation, and Nourish—will be up and running in early 2025, some being delivered and housed at the YMCA. Once Bannon House is ready, a full spectrum of programs will be delivered at that location which will be facilitated by a full time on-site manager.

Renovations to Bannon House are expected to begin late fall with the anticipated completion in spring 2025.

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