Dylan Mason Memorial Trust
Charity 1109339
http://dylan-mason.memory-of.com
Overview
Summary
The Dylan Mason Memorial Trust appears to occupy a focused support role around childhood leukaemia treatment in North Staffordshire: reducing the practical and informational burdens that illness places on children and their families, while also supplementing hospital provision. Its model seems to sit between family support and health-system enhancement, concentrating on needs that may fall outside standard statutory provision. The available evidence suggests a deliberately specific remit, particularly concerning acute myloid leukaemia, rather than a broad children’s-health charity.
Operational geography
Coverage: Regional
Operational areas:
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Remaining uncertainties
- There is no direct evidence that the trust currently delivers services, holds a physical site, funds activity, or has a material delivery partnership in any Birmingham ward or recognised place.
- The charity's stated objects identify North Staffordshire as its principal area, but also allow activity outside that area. This establishes a regional operational orientation rather than evidence of current Birmingham activity.
- The latest supplied financial record reports zero income and zero expenditure for the year ended 31 March 2025. This makes the scale and current continuity of operations uncertain.
- The registered correspondence address is in Stoke-on-Trent and should not be treated as a service-delivery site.
Additional evidence needed
- A current trustee annual report, accounts, or Charity Commission return identifying grants, hospital donations, family travel support, or beneficiaries by location.
- Current evidence from any hospitals, treatment centres, or delivery partners receiving support from the trust.
- A functioning official website or current contact response confirming whether the trust has active services, grants, or partnerships in Birmingham.
Areas of work
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Who they help
- Children/young People
How they help
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
A bridge between families and treatment
The Trust appears to address barriers surrounding treatment as well as the child’s medical condition itself. Assistance with travel, family education and hospital donations may indicate an understanding that successful care depends partly on families being able to remain connected to treatment.
Why it matters
This suggests the organisation’s role is not simply charitable giving to hospitals; it may strengthen the support network around children during intensive treatment.
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“Assisting the parents and families of such children to visit such children at the place of treatment.”
Source:Charity Commission“help with people getting to hospital, education of illness, donations to hospitals”
Source:Organisation
Focused on gaps around statutory care
By providing equipment and facilities not normally supplied by authorities, the Trust appears to position itself as a complement to public healthcare rather than a replacement for it.
Why it matters
This clarifies a potentially distinctive operating model: the Trust may create value by identifying and funding practical needs that hospitals cannot routinely meet.
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“Providing equipment and facilities not normally provided by the authorities for the benefit of such children.”
Source:Charity Commission“donations to hospitals”
Source:Organisation
A geographically rooted specialist charity
The Trust appears to combine a narrowly defined health focus with a principally local remit, centred on children with leukaemia in North Staffordshire and especially attentive to acute myloid leukaemia.
Why it matters
This may make the organisation a valuable specialist partner for local paediatric cancer services, while also raising questions about whether families outside its core area can access support.
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“Children suffering from leukaemia (and in particular acute myloid leukaemia) principally but not exclusively in the area of North Staffordshire.”
Source:Charity Commission“Children/young People”
Source:Organisation
- Whether the Trust gives direct financial support to families, funds hospitals directly, or uses both routes.
- Which hospitals, clinical teams or family-support organisations it works with.
- How many children and families it reaches, and whether support extends beyond North Staffordshire in practice.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent accounts or annual reports showing grants, beneficiaries, expenditure and funded items.
- Information on referral routes, hospital partnerships and how families access travel or educational support.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
help with people getting to hospital, education of illness, donations to hospitals
Charity objects
TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF CHILDREN SUFFERING FROM LEUKAEMIA (AND IN PARTICULAR ACUTE MYLOID LEUKAEMIA) PRINCIPALLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN THE AREA OF NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE INCLUDING: 1. ASSISTING THE PARENTS AND FAMILIES OF SUCH CHILDREN TO VISIT SUCH CHILDREN AT THE PLACE OF TREATMENT 2. PROVIDING EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIES NOT NORMALLY PROVIDED BY THE AUTHORITIES FOR THE BENEFIT OF SUCH CHILDREN 3. ADVANCING THE EDUCATION OF FAMILIES OF SUCH CHILDREN IN RESPECT OF THE MEDICAL CONDITION OF SUCH CHILDREN AND ITS TREATMENT