The first project is a campaign that aims to raise around £3.2 million over the next three years to fund the building of a Maggie's Cancer Caring Centre at Monklands Hospital, outside Airdrie. The venue is well chosen, with the area being one of Europe's cancer hotspots: 3,500 people in Lanarkshire will be diagnosed with cancer next year, and the area's inhabitants are 50% more likely to be diagnosed with lung cancer than people elsewhere in the UK.

Maggies Aberdeen will join Maggies Lanarkshire as the second Elizabeth Montgomerie Building, as part of Colin Montgomeries efforts to create a lasting legacy in his mothers name. The centre will be based at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary at Foresterhill. Maggie's already has several centres, including Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee and Inverness.

Colin Montgomeire has set up a local board to drive forward Montys Maggies Appeal for Aberdeen. Monty’s Maggie’s Campaign chairman Colin Welsh, chief executive of Simmons and Company International and a cancer survivor himself, said: “The service that Maggie’s provides to cancer sufferers and their families is both invaluable and unique. Aberdeen is the only city in Scotland not to have a Maggie’s Centre and we aim to put that right.”

Colin Montgomerie said “I am determined to work with Maggie’s to ensure people living with cancer no longer have to suffer alone.”