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A Night at the OSCAR’s Charity Ball

  • Friday 27th November 2026

Join us for an unforgettable evening

A night of elegance, entertainment and generosity where to support children and families affected by paediatric brain tumours.

A Night at the OSCAR’s Charity Ball is a special evening dedicated to raising vital funds for our charity. Bringing together our incredible supporters, local businesses and community, this black-tie event promises a night of fine dining, live entertainment and inspiring fundraising, all while making a lasting difference to the lives of children and families facing the unimaginable.

Whether you’re joining us with friends, family or colleagues, every ticket purchased helps us continue providing emotional, practical and financial support to families from the moment of diagnosis and throughout their journey.

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Your ticket includes:

Welcome drink on arrival

Delicious two-course meal

Live entertainment

Charity raffle and auction

Exciting fundraising activities throughout the evening

An unforgettable night supporting a truly special cause

Charity Ball Details

Date: Friday 27th November 2026

Venue: Cave Castle Hotel, South Cave

Arrival: From 6:30pm

Carriages: 12:00am

Dress Code: Black Tie

Ticket Price:£65.00 per person

Every ticket purchased helps OSCAR’s continue providing support to children and families affected by paediatric brain tumours. Your generosity helps ensure that no family has to face their journey alone.

Join us for an evening of celebration, compassion and hope as we raise funds to help create brighter futures for the children and families who rely on OSCAR’s.

We can’t wait to welcome you to A Night at the OSCAR’s Charity Ball.

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We’re incredibly grateful to the amazing businesses who have chosen to support the OSCAR’s Charity Ball. Their generosity is helping us create a truly special evening while making a real difference to children and families affected by childhood brain tumours.

A huge thank you to Paragon ID for their continued support and becoming our Welcome Drinks Sponsor, this will for help us give our guests a fantastic start to what promises to be a really special evening.

Paragon ID

We’re incredibly grateful to Beal Homes for sponsoring our Star of Hope Wall. This will be one of the most meaningful features of the evening, giving guests the opportunity to leave a personal message. Together, these messages will create a beautiful display and we’re so thankful to Beal Homes for helping us bring this special feature to life.

Beal

We’re also delighted to have Yorkshire Accountancy, one of charity partners, on board as a Table Sponsor. Their support is helping us make this event one to remember while raising vital funds for OSCAR’s Paediatric Brain Tumour Charity.

Yorkshire Accountancy

We’re also delighted to welcome LCFA as a new charity partner and to have their incredible support as a Ball Partner. Their generosity is helping us make this special evening one to remember, we’re so grateful to have them on board!

LCFA logo

We’re incredibly grateful to Spectrum for supporting OSCAR’s and becoming a Ball Partner for being part of what promises to be a very special night.

Spectrum

We’re so grateful to Stephenson Management for standing alongside OSCAR’s as a Ball Partner and helping us create an evening filled with hope, community and purpose.

Stephenson

A huge thank you to Swanland House for their generous support as a Ball Partner. Their kindness and commitment to supporting OSCAR’s will help us make our Charity Ball a truly special evening.

Swanland

We’re also delighted to have Thompson Commercials Ltd supporting us as a table sponsor. Their generosity is helping us make this special evening one to remember, and we’re so grateful to have them on board.

Thompsons

We have a range of sponsorship opportunities and are actively looking for companies who want to be a big part of this amazing night.


Please contact our fundraising officer Amy Owen to learn more about what is available.

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Rachel James

Community Fundraising Assistant
Rachel will join our team on September 1st and will be doing a wide range of tasks including promoting the charity in the local community, developing relationships with different people and organisations, and finding new fundraising opportunities. She comes from a caring background having been a teaching assistant and emotional literacy support assistant in York for many years, and previously leading a community care team. She has also done many years of work in the voluntary sector.

Matthew Taylor

Trustee

Matthew Taylor is Director of the York Health Economics Consortium at the University of York. He has been a supporter of OSCAR’s since its inception and, through his twenty years of research into the measurement of health-related quality of life, Matthew is keenly aware of the huge benefits that new treatments can bring to people living with brain tumours.

Matthew is actively involved in national-level healthcare decision making, having had former roles as the Scientific Director of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)’s Economic and Methodological Unit and as a committee member for NICE’s Public Health Advisory Group. He has over fifty peer-reviewed scientific publications, including a chapter in the textbook ‘The Business, Policy and Economics of Neurosurgery’.

Ryan Mathew

Clinical Trustee

Ryan Mathew is an Associate Professor at the University of Leeds and an Honorary Consultant Neurosurgeon at Leeds Teaching Hospitals.

The Hughes Family story had a big impact on Ryan. He first learnt of the charity when he became surgeon to Oscar’s dad, Ian. After a successful surgery, he continued to show great care and concern for the family when Ian became ill again and when Milo, Oscar’s brother, was diagnosed with a brain tumour. Ryan is driven to make life outcomes better for brain tumour patients and their families. His extensive work in both research and surgery is testament to that commitment.

His clinical practice covers the full spectrum of general neurosurgery with a subspecialty in brain tumours. His research focuses on advanced brain tumour models, residual therapy-resistant glioma cell populations, local therapeutic treatments and surgical technologies and devices. He peer-reviews for several journals and grant award committees and has published numerous papers.

More information on Ryan’s work

Lisa Dawson

Trustee

Lisa has been a friend of the Hughes family since 2016 and was honoured to be asked in 2022 to represent OSCAR’s PBTC as Social & Digital Trustee.  Both Lisa and her family have taken part in numerous fundraising events and are dedicated to raising awareness of paediatric brain tumours.  Lisa is a social media content creator, blogger and writer and lives in York with her husband Joe and three children, Ella, Max and Leo.

Alice Beckwith

Trustee

Alice has been involved with OSCAR’s PBTC since 2020. She passionately supports the aims of the charity and believes that if the charity can change one life for the better, then it is a success. Working in the public sector for 18 years, Alice has helped transform Adult and Children’s Social Care Services by ensuring heavy investment in preventative services. This is why the impact OSCAR’s work will have on families is at the forefront of Alice’s motivation to be involved.

As partnerships trustee, Alice is keen to involve businesses, trusts and individuals in the work OSCAR’s does and show them the role they can have in providing the base for the charity to continue to expand its projects to help children with brain tumours.

Sarah Jane Gray

Trustee/Secretary

Sarah has over 20 years of experience in the pharmaceutical and surgical sales sector and is very familiar with the importance of medical advancements for better patient outcomes. She believes research is essential for improving diagnosis, treatment and prognosis for all children with brain tumours and hopes OSCAR’s PBTC can offer much needed funding to help push the boundaries in finding better ways of curing this devastating disease. Sarah’s focus as a treasurer will ensure record-keeping and accounts meet the conditions of the statutory bodies and compliance with regulatory organisations.

Holly Dixon

Trustee

Holly is mother to George, diagnosed with an ATRT brain tumour in 2022, and works as a primary school teacher. She believes that action to support others -however small- can make a massive difference.


She brings real-life experience of what it is like for a parent navigating everyday life, the NHS, the education system, questions from people and a lively young child with different needs.

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Sam Marino

Trustee
Sam was Headteacher at a school where Alfie Hutchinson died from an ependymoma brain tumour, at the age of 10. After becoming close with Alfie’s family Sam found OSCAR’s and reached out to the charity to help support the family, staff, children and local community. 
 
Sam understands the immediate and long term effects on a community when losing a child to a brain tumour. 
 
‘After seeing first hand the amazing work that OSCAR’s do, there was no doubt in my mind that I wanted to be part of the team. I’d like to help raise awareness in educational settings, for teachers and for parents – to empower them to seek early detection/diagnosis. Phil once said to me, ‘You never expect to become part of the brain tumour community, then all of a sudden you are.’ What an inspiring and powerful community it is.”

Marie Hughes

ChAIR OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Marie founded the charity with her husband Ian, who passed away in 2020. She is the mother of four boys. Two of Marie’s sons have died from different types of brain tumours – Oscar who was 9 and Milo who was 5 years old. She is determined to help find better treatments for brain tumours so other children won’t have to go through what her own sons and her family have.

Marie is Chair of the Board of Trustees, working closely withe the team on strategy and vision. Marie lives in Copenhagen with her two other sons, Sebastian and Lucas, and works as a Risk Manager on the Danish railway.