Teenage and Young Adult Cancer Awareness Month
April is Teenage and Young Adult Cancer Awareness Month. The theme this year is ‘Empowering young people around healthcare’. We know, from listening to our families, that the transition from child to adult services can be a big worry, they face losing the support, guidance, familiarity and understanding they had built up with their medical […]
55 Cambridge Half Marathon runners raise more than £16,000 for Tom’s Trust
Our Team Tom Cambridge Half Marathon runners have raised over £16,000 for Tom’s Trust by pounding the pavements and running through history to change the future for children with brain tumours. The Cambridge Half Marathon event on Sunday 3 March saw 15,000 runners take part in the 13.1-mile route through the historic city. Tom’s […]
Pozitive Energy donates £30,000 to Tom’s Trust
This week our largest corporate partner, Pozitive Energy, hosted a brand preview party at The Brewery, London, to communicate the company’s vision for the future and announced a £30,000 donation to Tom’s Trust. Pozitive is the UK’s sixth largest energy company and provides businesses with a family of products, including telecoms, financial services, electric vehicle […]
Choir concert raises funds
Last Thursday, 15 February, St Faith’s School Choir (from Cambridge) performed a very special concert at St Peter’s Church, Heswall to raise funds for the children’s brain tumour charity Tom’s Trust, who provide psychological support for children with brain tumours and their families at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital. The concert raised a brilliant £442.81. Tom’s […]
UK’s first Sibling Toolkit launched by Tom’s Trust
Children’s charity Tom’s Trust has funded and launched the UK’s first Sibling Toolkit to help the brothers and sisters of children with cancer, who are often left feeling ‘sad, angry and lonely’. The expert 40-page toolkit was written by the neuro-oncology psychology team at the Great North Children’s Hospital in Newcastle, over 18 months in […]
Alder Hey children spark joy in festive Christmas card competition
A Christmas card competition held by brain tumour charity Tom’s Trust saw judges blown away with the creations by children from Alder Hey Children’s Hospital. Tom’s Trust held the competition with the help of their psychologists at the hospital in Liverpool, with lots of entries received from children who are currently being treated there. First […]
National Lottery funding enables leap forward in strategy
The National Lottery Community Fund has granted children’s brain tumour charity Tom’s Trust more than £400,000, enabling a big leap forward in its strategy to support more families. The incredible news was revealed to the charity after they applied for £427,000 of funding from the organisation’s Reaching Communities Fund over four years for three vital […]
Conquering mountains: A fundraising journey
In 2009, under unfriendly October skies, I attempted the National Three Peaks Challenge, but the weather forced us to turn back, prioritising safety over success. This year, I undertook the challenge again with two friends, and the odds seemed stacked against us from the start. Our group hailed from the Woodbridge Football Club Veterans team, […]
Local football team takes on Three Peaks Challenge
The Woodbridge Vets football team has completed the Three Peaks Challenge to raise money for two charities close to their hearts. Martin Shave, who is a trustee of children’ s brain tumour charity Tom’s Trust, and two other members of the football team – Jimmy Andrews and Chris Kyle – took on the challenge to […]
Group of nine completes Great North Run for children’s brain tumour charity
A Gosforth mum has led a Great North Run campaign to support a children’s brain tumour charity after her son was diagnosed with a brain tumour. Jenny and the other eight runners successfully completed the half marathon for children’s brain tumour charity Tom’s Trust, to help raise vital funds for the charity in recognition of […]
Annual Bartlow walk raises more than £19,000
A popular annual walk in the countryside has raised more than £19,000 for three charities. The Bartlow Charity Walk covers three counties; Cambridgeshire, Suffolk and Essex, raising much needed funds this year for three worthy causes: Tom’s Trust, Addenbrookes Cancer Research Hospital and Bartlow Church Restoration. The eighteen years of the walk have raised over […]