Our Sibling Toolkit – one year on
This time last year we launched our Sibling Toolkit – the UK’s first ever resource designed to support the siblings of children with cancer. The toolkit addresses the ongoing challenges and needs of children who experience the trauma of the diagnosis, treatment, after-effects, and sometimes bereavement of their sibling from cancer and is designed to help […]
New service is already making a big impact
The new mental health support service, that Tom’s Trust launched at the Oxford Children’s Hospital in October 2024 is already reporting significant impact. Improvements have been reported in access to appointments, waiting lists for both cognitive assessment and therapeutic work have been cleared and Dr Emily Townsend, the Tom’s Trust clinical psychologist, has begun collaborating […]
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 […]
Spreading festive cheer
Children who are currently being treated at the Oxford Children’s Hospital, Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, and the Great North Children’s Hospital have been gifted Christmas goody bags from Tom’s Trust, to bring festive joy to the children’s hospital wards this season. The carefully crafted surprises were pulled together, and delivered to the children currently attending […]
Children spark joy in this year’s festive Christmas card competition
A number of children who are currently being treated across Alder Hey, Oxford and the Great North Children’s Hospitals have been busy designing Christmas cards for our annual competition. The team of judges were blown away with the creativity of the entries. Our clinical psychologists support families facing a child’s brain tumour diagnosis across all […]
Polly joins us as a Young Ambassador
Following her brain tumour diagnosis at 14 months old, Polly from Wallasey in Merseyside, now aged 11, has decided to join us as a Young Ambassador. The role will see her support other children and young adults who are facing a brain tumour diagnosis by bravely sharing her story. We are so delighted to welcome her […]
Project launched exploring inequality in access to psychological care within childhood brain tumour services
A pilot year-long project studying the inequality in access to psychological care within childhood brain tumour services, and the implications on access to clinical trials, has been launched by a team at the Great North Children’s Hospital in Newcastle and funded by Tom’s Trust. This unique project aims to understand the differences in resources across […]
Returning to school and bullying
Tom’s Trust has pledged to support the Anti Bullying Alliance’s ‘Anti-Bullying Week 2024’ and we are using the week to highlight the real problem and worry that bullying is for those children we support. We know that bullying is sadly, an all-too-common experience for school-aged children. As many as one in four of all children […]
An interview with our CEO, Rebecca Wood
Our CEO, Rebecca Wood, joined Tom’s Trust in 2020, following a career spanning 23 years in senior roles at fast-growing charities. For 17 years she was CEO of Alzheimer’s Research UK, while there she grew the organisation from a team of two to over 70 employees and left it a multi-million-pound income charity. This allowed […]
Tom’s Trust expands reach to the Thames Valley region with new service
Tom’s Trust has opened a new clinical psychology service at the Children’s Hospital in Oxford, that will provide much-needed mental health support to children and young people facing a brain tumour diagnosis across the Thames Valley region, along with also supporting their families. Where Tom’s Trust works Tom’s Trust clinical psychologists support hundreds of children, […]
Harry receives a British Citizen Youth Award
One of our Tom’s Trust Young Ambassador’s, Harry, received a British Citizen Youth Award last week for his fundraising and awareness raising of childhood brain tumours, all done in his sister Emily’s memory. Emily tragically died of a brain tumour at the age of just eight in August 2022, within two weeks of her diagnosis […]