Charity Golf Day 2025

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A Great Day of Golf for a Great Cause!

Join us for an unforgettable day of golf at the prestigious Sandburn Hall on August 29th, 2025. Tee off for a wonderful cause while enjoying spectacular views and fantastic company.

After working up an appetite on the course, unwind with delicious BBQ-style food and participate in our exciting charity raffle with amazing prizes up for grabs.


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Special Prize: Enter our competition for a chance to win an incredible 5-night holiday in Spain!

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Don’t miss this opportunity to support Oscar’s charity while enjoying a perfect day of golf, food, and prizes. Book your place today!
For bookings and information, please follow the link: https://yourdaygroup.co.uk/oscarspbtc/

All proceeds go directly to supporting Oscar’s charity and our vital work in the community.

Sponsorship opportunities available

We have sponsors for various tees and packages already – but please contact Amy at oscarscharity.org if you would like to sponsor this event.

OSCAR’s Charity Golf Day Sponsorship Opportunities

Gold Headline Sponsor – £1750

Alfie was 10-years-old and attended Crakehall Primary School. His family were told his brain tumour was terminal. OSCAR’s provided a range of support services to the school and Alfie’s family: staff meetings on how to support him and each other, guidance on how to help the school community, advice to Alfie’s family on how to navigate the difficult months ahead. OSCAR’s were also at school to look after children and staff the day after Alfie died and have been on-hand for whatever the school and family needed since.

The staff time and resources for support like this paid for by your sponsorship will change the lives for the better of the next two families and school communities that need OSCAR’s in this way.

Silver Sponsor – £950

Roux was born with a brain tumour and lives with a number of disabilities. OSCAR’s supported him with a summer of physiotherapy sessions to help him stand and walk independently for the first time. By taking this package of sponsorship, you are paying for two other children like Roux to get the same benefits. Your support changes their lives.

Breakfast Sponsor – £400

When Amelia, undergoing treatment for her brain tumour, and her 3 brothers received Booster Boxes full of gifts tailored to their favourite things, her mum said, “I haven’t seen her smile like this in a very long time. It is just what we all needed.” Your breakfast sponsorship means we can help put smiles on the faces of children affected by brain tumours and also their siblings, who can also be left feeling scared and confused and lonely.

19th Sponsor – £400

George couldn’t find what he needed on the NHS to improve the fact he couldn’t use his right hand. We sourced and paid for physio sessions. His mum recently said, when she sent us a video of him dressed as Bob The Builder using a toy drill with his right hand: “His hand is open. It seems like the smallest thing to anyone else, but it is massive to us.” Your gift of sponsoring the 19th hole will help change the life of the next George we support.

Putting Competition Sponsor – £250

5-year-old Hunter lost the power of speech after his brain tumour surgery. OSCAR’s have stepped in to get him speech therapist sessions which he is doing really well with. We could hear him chatting away in the background when Mum phoned to thank us! By sponsoring the putting competition you have helped with two of those sessions to help make the future easier for children like Hunter.

Tee Sponsorship – £50 per tee

15-year-old Tilly lives with her brain tumour and needed mental health support as well as physical support. We paid for 121 swimming lessons as she was nervous about being in a group. We found her local mental health sessions but due to her anxiety she couldn’t get there so we funded taxis to make sure she could. It cost the same for her to get to one session as it does to sponsor a tee today, meaning we can do the same for the next child like Tilly who needs us. 

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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

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.