The new resource centre at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is to be opened by the Duke of Gloucester.

His Royal Highness will be accompanied by chief executive Anna Hills and the Trust’s former chair, Julie Spence, when he visits the organisation’s Fulbourn Hospital site on Wednesday July 19.

The building, which was completed earlier this year following a 12-month building programme, is home to a number of teams including music, art, and drama therapy, pharmacy, and the 'heart and soul' chaplaincy service.

At more than 1,200 square metres, the two-storey building – which replaced the previous resource centre on the site – has a gym for service-users who are being cared for at the Trust’s mental health wards for adults and older people at the hospital site.

There are also physio and occupational therapy areas along with offices, meeting rooms and a branch of The EDGE Café which is open to staff, patients and visitors from Monday to Saturday.

Chief executive Anna Hills said: “We are delighted that HRH The Duke of Gloucester has agreed to officially open the resource centre.

“We are very proud of the new building. It is already proving to be a wonderful place for our patients, visitors and our staff.

“It will be a fantastic opportunity for our colleagues to meet him and tell him about their amazing work.

“The visit was arranged by our former chair, Julie Spence, in her capacity as Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire.

“We are incredibly grateful to Julie, and it will be great to welcome her back to the Trust.”

During the visit, the Duke will tour the resource centre, and visit the Trust’s Windsor Research Unit which is also on the Fulbourn Hospital site.

One of the UK’s top performing mental health research units, the team who work there support hundreds of studies and help thousands of volunteers access new treatments and therapies every year.

The resource centre was built by Morgan Sindall Construction using buildings which were previously on the site of the former Royal Papworth Hospital.

An outside seating area and some of the landscaping next to the resource centre has been funded by CPFT’s Head To Toe charity.