The Sue And John Dixon Charitable Trust
Charity 1054225
Overview
Summary
The Sue And John Dixon Charitable Trust appears to be a narrowly focused health charity whose role is to enable care for people with terminal cancer rather than to provide direct clinical treatment itself. Its stated support for buildings, facilities and services suggests a practical, infrastructure-oriented contribution to the cancer-care ecosystem. The available evidence indicates a potential mismatch between its cancer-specific purpose and its broad beneficiary classification, which warrants clarification rather than assumption.
Operational geography
Coverage: Regional
Operational areas:
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Remaining uncertainties
- Direct evidence from the Charity Commission lists Birmingham City among the places where the charity operates, but it does not identify any Birmingham ward, recognised place, service venue, grant recipient or delivery location. This cannot be mapped reliably to one of the supplied Birmingham area identifiers.
- The charity's governing-document area of benefit is described as the Coventry area, which sits uneasily with the Charity Commission's broader reported operating geography, including Birmingham and several West Midlands local authorities.
- The latest reported financial year ended 5 March 2025 and records £0 income and £0 expenditure. This creates substantial uncertainty about whether the listed geographical reach represents active current delivery rather than retained registration information.
- No evidence was found of charity-owned or leased operational premises; the Charity Commission states that the charity does not own or lease land or property. Its Kenilworth address should therefore not be treated as a service site.
- No current delivery partners, funded organisations or projects were identified, so there is no evidence that partnerships currently extend the charity's operational reach within Birmingham.
Additional evidence needed
- A current trustee report, grant-making record or beneficiary list identifying organisations or cancer-support services funded in Birmingham.
- Confirmation from the charity of whether it is currently making grants or delivering services, following the £0 income and expenditure reported for the year ended 5 March 2025.
- Ward-level locations for any current Birmingham-funded projects, venues or partner organisations.
- Clarification from the Charity Commission or trustees on the relationship between the stated Coventry area of benefit and the broader list of reported operating local authorities.
Areas of work
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Who they help
- People With Disabilities
How they help
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
An enabling rather than direct-care role
The trust appears to operate by funding organisations that care for people with terminal cancer, positioning it as a supporting funder within local or specialist care provision rather than as a frontline care provider.
Why it matters
This helps identify the trust's likely influence: it may strengthen the capacity of other organisations, making its relationships with care providers more important than any direct service footprint.
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“Help fund organisation who care for people with terminal cancer”
Source:Organisation“FOR THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS IN PARTICULAR PATIENTS SUFFERING FROM CANCER”
Source:Charity Commission
Support may be focused on care capacity
By listing both facilities and services as methods of help, the trust may support the practical conditions in which terminal cancer care is delivered, such as care settings, equipment or service provision.
Why it matters
This suggests the trust could be relevant to organisations needing capital or operational support, and may complement providers whose expertise is care delivery rather than fundraising.
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“Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space, Provides Services”
Source:Charity Commission“The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives”
Source:Charity Commission
A possible gap between stated purpose and beneficiary category
The trust's purpose is explicitly cancer-focused, while its recorded beneficiary group is people with disabilities. This may reflect the disabling effects of terminal illness, an administrative classification, or a broader practice not visible in the available evidence.
Why it matters
Clarifying this would improve understanding of who the trust intends to reach and whether potentially eligible cancer-care organisations may overlook it because of ambiguous beneficiary language.
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“FOR THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS IN PARTICULAR PATIENTS SUFFERING FROM CANCER”
Source:Charity Commission“People With Disabilities”
Source:Charity Commission
- Which organisations receive funding and where they operate.
- Whether the trust funds hospices, hospitals, community providers or other forms of terminal cancer care.
- The scale, frequency and selection criteria of its funding.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent grant lists, annual reports or accounts showing recipients, amounts and purposes.
- Information on geographic focus, application process and relationships with cancer-care providers.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
Help fund organisation who care for people with terminal cancer
Charity objects
FOR THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS IN PARTICULAR PATIENTS SUFFERING FROM CANCER