David Rayner of Scotsdales Garden Centre was instrumental in getting the building project for the current centre under way.
Scotsdales donated the land and set up a charitable foundation to raise money for the building itself.
The fundraising was started with a personal donation from David Rayner of £100,000 and with support from Cambridge News and BBC Radio Cambridgeshire the story soon spread and many local businesses got involved.
Although the Cambridge Cancer Help Centre is a charity in its own right, the Scotsdales Charitable Foundation still needs to raise over £120,000 to cover the building costs for a centre that now houses many other charitable groups including Stroke, Alzheimers, Andreasen and Parkinson Groups.