Cambridge businesses lead Team Tom into the Cambridge Half Marathon
Several Cambridge businesses will be running this years TTP Cambridge Half Marathon for Tom’s Trust, including the award-winning Cambs Cuisine, high quality slow-fashion retailer Tom’s Trunks, strategic platform building company Bango, independent Cambridge estate agent Redmayne Arnold and Harris, and the popular Cambridge Juice Company. They will all have teams running on Sunday 9th March. […]
St Faith’s School Choir shared joy at Alder Hey on Valentines Day
Last Friday, 14 February, St Faith’s School Choir (from Cambridge) filled the atrium at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital with beautiful music, performing a heart-warming concert to raise funds for Tom’s Trust. St Faith’s is an extra special school for Tom’s Trust as it was the school that Tom, who Tom’s Trust is named after, attended. […]
Team Tom gets ready for the Cambridge Half Marathon
There are only a few weeks to go until this year’s TTP Cambridge Half Marathon. Among our incredible 75 Team Tom runners taking part will be Kate and her brother Alistair. During her thirteen years teaching at St Thomas More Primary School in Saffron Walden, Kate has worked with two incredible pupils who battled both […]
Get moving and help children with brain tumours this January
This January we are asking our supporters to sign up to our Mile for a Child ‘half marathon your way’, challenge. It is a challenge that invites you to take on a half marathon in whatever way suits you, over whatever time frame suits you. You’re in control. Run, walk, swim, cycle, get your dog out […]
Join our Mile for a Child campaign
Sign up to the Tom’s Trust Mile for a Child ‘half marathon your way’ challenge this January. With our ‘half marathon your way’ challenge you can cover 13.1 miles in whatever way suits you, over whatever time frame suits you. You’re in control. Run, walk, swim, cycle, get your dog out for walkies or skip […]
Cambridge Business & Professional Club Charity of the Year
Tom’s Trust is delighted to have been chosen as the Charity of the Year for the Cambridge Business and Professional Club (CBPC), a partnership that was celebrated at the prestigious organisation’s annual luncheon on 6 December 2024 at Queen’s College, Cambridge. Thanks to the generosity of CBPC members, an amazing £1,600 was raised at the […]
Tom’s Trust turns 13 today – 13 highlights from the past year
In the last 13 years we have provided psychological support to over 1600 children with brain and other central nervous system tumours and 4800 family members. Thanks to you – our supporters. Our 13 highlights from the last year include: -Opening our Alder Hey service supporting children in the North West -Launching the UK’s first […]
Join Team Tom at the Cambridge Half Marathon in 2025
We are currently recruiting for our 70 strong 2025 Cambridge Half Marathon team. Would you be interested in running as part of Team Tom around the historic streets of Cambridge on March 9th next year? Book your place Click the link below and pop Jess Wilde, our Community & Corporate Fundraising Manager, an email to […]
Two Tom’s Trust service centres named Tessa Jowell Centres of Excellence
Six UK neuro-oncology centres have been awarded the coveted Centre of Excellence status from The Tessa Jowell Brain Cancer Mission (TJBCM) – having met the high Standards of Excellence along their patient pathway. Areas assessed include clinical care, quality of life care and access to clinical trials. Special attention was paid to play therapy and […]
Bartlow Three Counties Walk 2024
A huge thank you to those who joined Team Tom at Bartlow Three Counties Walk this Sunday 5th May. The sun shone, the shoes got muddy, and many Kitsch Hen Scotch Eggs were eaten! This popular annual sponsored walk in the countryside covers three counties; Cambridgeshire, Suffolk and Essex and raises much needed funds for […]
Running for Tom’s Trust
Lewis Bateman, 22, from Gosforth in Newcastle, recently ran the Liverpool half marathon to raise funds for Tom’s Trust, this was after running the Great North Run last September for us. Lewis currently works in retail after studying at university for his sports science degree. He is a massive Newcastle United fan and enjoys playing football […]
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 […]