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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?...
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Celebrating one year of supporting families at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital
Yesterday we hosted a celebration event to mark a year of our service at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital – where we fund three clinical psychologists. Our clinical psychologists support families across...
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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...
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An interview with Dr Meghan Owens, Clinical Psychologist at Alder Hey...
As we celebrated a year of the Tom’s Trust service at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital we took the opportunity to interview Dr Meghan Owens, our clinical lead at the centre, about the past year,...
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Introducing Dr Lynda Teape, our Director of Services Development
This month Tom’s Trust will welcome Dr Lynda Teape to the team as our Director of Services Development. This new and exciting post has been funded by the National Lottery Reaching Communities Fund....
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Dr Sarah Verity takes the sibling toolkit global
Over the next couple of days, Paediatric Neuropsychologist – Dr Sarah Verity, who led the development of the Tom’s Trust Sibling Toolkit will present the toolkit at the International Symposium on...
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Tom’s Trust has invited Principal Treatment Centres* (PTCs) in the UK to apply for Tom’s Trust funding to establish a Tom’s Trust clinical psychology service for children with brain tumours and their...
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Jamie joins us as a Young Ambassador
Following his brain tumour diagnosis four years ago, Jamie, 18, from Frizington in Cumbria, has decided to join us as a Young Ambassador. The role will see him support other children and young adults...
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Tom’s Trust to to host Charity Ball at the prestigious Titanic Hotel, Liverpool
Tom’s Trust is marking a year of its service at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital with a Charity Ball celebration on Thursday 10 October. The event will be held at the prestigious Titanic Hotel. Venue:...
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Keep children busy (for good reasons) this summer!
Alex, aged 9, from Cambridge, kicked off his summer holidays by raising money for Tom’s Trust, after he heard about our work. He cycled a brilliant 10 miles – doing loops around his village, and then...
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Turners of Soham team climbs and flies for Tom’s Trust
Turners of Soham has completed a mammoth challenge to raise more money for Tom’s Trust. Since they started supporting us they have raised over £10,000 for Tom’s Trust. Earlier this month a team of 10...
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Generations gather to walk 73 miles in memory of beautiful Emily
A family is set to walk 73 miles along The Cumbria Way in memory of their daughter /sister / niece / cousin who died of a brain tumour at the age of just eight. Emily tragically died in August 2022...
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Polly’s story, as told by her mum Emily
“Without our clinical psychology sessions this journey would have been even tougher.” Polly’s mum, Emily. Meet Polly, also known as Gumdrops by her adoring mum. Polly is 10, and loves dancing, Monsters...
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Leave a gift in your Will to Tom’s Trust
“Leaving a gift in your Will to Tom’s Trust will help to change the lives of children with brain tumours across the UK. Thank you.” This Remember A Charity Week (9-15 September) we would like to ask...
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An interview with Dr Meghan Owens, Clinical Psychologist at Alder Hey...
As we celebrated a year of the Tom’s Trust service at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital we took the opportunity to interview Dr Meghan Owens, our clinical lead at the centre, about the past year,...
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Connor’s story, as told by his mum Ruth
“Tom’s Trust has shown the need for mental health support. How can you stay strong and fight for your child if you’re broken inside and see no way out?” Connor’s mum, Ruth Connor, now 17, loves...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Trustees’ Week – talking to our trustee Anil Malhotra
This Trustees’ Week we are shining a light on the important work our trustees do. A trustee oversees a charity’s operations, ensures it fulfils its mission, manages funds responsibly, complies with...
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