Team Jak provides emotional, social and practical support to children and young people with cancer, their families, friends, and those bereaved.
At Team Jak, our top priority is delivering the right emotional, social, and practical support at the right time to all those affected by a childhood diagnosis of cancer or other associated illness. We are a registered charity and we are here for children and young people aged 0-25, their families and friends.
Helping create smiles and easing the toughest of journeys, every day, across Scotland.
Team Jak delivers tailored emotional support in safe, compassionate spaces across Scotland for children and young people with cancer and their families. Included are 1:1 and group counselling, music therapy, sibling sessions, wellbeing activities, bereavement care, and so much more.
Our Team Jak social support includes joyful activities and fun events where children and young people with cancer — plus families and friends — can connect, laugh, and feel less alone. Join us at a welcoming Jak’s Den, for family outing, or at a themed event.
We provide hands-on help to ease everyday pressures — from travel grants, help with schoolwork and tutoring to household tasks and family logistics. Team Jak’s practical support is flexible, personal, and available at home, hospital, or from our Jak’s Dens.
Our unique Jak’s Den concept is at the heart of all that we do — and the idea came from Jak himself.
He wanted his legacy to be somewhere special for children and young people with cancer and related illnesses to join together. Somewhere they could take a break from their diagnosis, and — along with family and friends — just be themselves for a while.
From that vision we have our Jak’s Den, Team Jak’s HQ in Livingston, Jak’s Den Aberdeen and our pop-up Dens in Glasgow, and Fife.
Jak’s Dens now host an ever-growing programme of activities and events, providing essential emotional, social, and practical support to children, young people and their families from across Scotland.
Jak Trueman was a normal happy healthy teenager until August 2014, when he was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of cancer. Five months later, aged 15, he gained his wings.
He wanted his legacy to be a special safe haven for other children and young people faced with a cancer diagnosis. Just six days before he passed, Jak unveiled his detailed plans tasking his mother Allison with creating somewhere families could find the non-medical support that had not been available to him.
And now, more than 10 years later, his compassionate vision has been realised many times over through the Team Jak Foundation and our unique Jak’s Dens.
We need your help to make what we do happen. Why not volunteer for us, fundraise, or make a donation? Every penny you raise for Team Jak will help us help children, young people and their families across Scotland.
Why not take on a challenge, organise an event, or perhaps choose Team Jak as your next workplace charity? Go with one of our fundraising ideas or choose one of your own — either way we’ll help you make it happen!
We are grateful for every donation Team Jak receives, big or small. And we make it as easy as possible, too, with options including one-off donations, giving monthly, through your payroll, or gifting in kind.
Our volunteers are incredible, and they’re right at the very heart of Team Jak. Every single volunteer plays a crucial role in delivering our very special emotional, social, and practical support, and we’d love you to join their ranks!
Everything we do is only possible because of the generosity of people like you. Since we launched Team Jak in 2015, we have been providing emotional, social, and practical support to hundreds of families across Scotland. Here are a few of our milestones…
Children, young people & families currently registered and many more supported
raised in 10 years through fundraising and donations
emotional, social & practical support sessions delivered in 2024
hospital, home & online outreach visits made in 2024
Every event we’re involved in helps Team Jak support families facing childhood cancer, whether you’re lacing up your boots for the next Kiltwalk or dressing up for some fizz with your fundraising. Join us at one of our upcoming events, or just come along and cheer! Every step, mile, smile, and donation counts.
Sunday 13th December 2026
2pm
West Kirk of Calder, West End, West Calder, EH55 8EN
Friday 18th September (or day of your choice)
Saturday 7th November 2026
7pm - 12am
Livingston FC, Almondvale Suite
We provide emotional, social and practical support to children & young people with cancer, their families, friends and those bereaved
