Terminal illness charity Marie Curie has unveiled a striking ‘Garden of Light’ at Glasgow’s Central Railway Station concourse to mark the charity’s annual Great Daffodil Appeal – the charity’s biggest fundraising drive which takes place every March.

The unique installation which can only be seen in Glasgow was postponed from earlier in the month due to the extreme weather. It features lit daffodils each one representing someone affected by terminal illness who will be helped by Marie Curie in Scotland this March. The lit daffodils demonstrate the light that the nurses bring to terminally ill people across Scotland, even in the darkest hours.

Visitors will also be able to leave behind a memory to a loved one - by writing a message on a daffodil sticker and placing it onto a ‘Memory Wall’.

The Garden of Light is free to visit and will remain until the night of Saturday (17 March). The installation marks Marie Curie’s Great Daffodil Appeal which sees Marie Curie volunteers giving out daffodil pins in return for donations across Scotland in March.

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For this year’s appeal Marie Curie is asking people in Scotland to raise half a million pounds. Volunteer collectors will be asking for donations in return for daffodil pins.

Every penny raised and every daffodil worn helps fund crucial hours of care at home and in Marie Curie Hospices for people living with a terminal illness in Scotland.

Linda Tierney from Livingston helped launch the Garden of Light with Marie Curie Registered Nurse Liz Arnott from Glasgow. Linda is living with terminal cancer and plans to spend her final days at the Marie Curie Hospice in Edinburgh.

Linda says: “The Garden of Light is a beautiful way to represent the nurses and the light that Marie Curie brings to people. I know that when my time comes my family will have all the support they need but sadly that’s not the case for everyone. I wear my daffodil with pride that I’m helping Marie Curie reach more people like my family and I.”

This year marks 23 years that Liz Arnott has worked as a Marie Curie Nurse.

She said: “I care for people in their own homes and when you walk through the door you see the relief on people’s faces. They know that you’re going to do everything you can to make them as comfortable and pain-free as possible. Some people live alone and that’s really hard, they appreciate having someone to talk to during the night which can be a very frightening time.

“It is so important that everyone gets the care they need but sadly one in four people in Scotland aren’t getting that care. Marie Curie urgently needs your support so we can reach more people when they need us most.”

To find out more about Glasgow’s Marie Curie Garden of Light visit mariecurie.org.uk/glasgowgardenoflight or search #GardenofLight