# MASScot

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC040286
- **Known as:** Melanoma Action and Support Scotland
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)
- **Registered:** Feb. 19, 2009
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC040286


## Contact

- **Address:** 1/1, 25 Robertson Street, Greenock, Inverclyde
- **Postcode:** PA16 8HG
- **Website:** www.masscot.org.uk



## Activities

**Activities:** &#x27;It carries out activities or services itself&#x27;

**Purposes:** &#x27;the advancement of education&#x27;,&#x27;the advancement of health&#x27;

**What the charity does:** To support people diagnosed with skin cancers especially cutaneous melanoma. We provide a help line and psychological support given by a properly qualified and insured counsellors who uses hypnotherapy this is delivered via Zoom to the patients home. We campaign for better treatment and drugs to increase survival and provide prevention education and distribute information to assist early diagnosis.

**Objectives:** The organisation is established for charitable purposes only, and in particular, the objects are: 4.1 To provide support for melanoma or non-melanoma skin cancer patients and their carers in Scotland. 4.2 To raise awareness and advance education of melanoma or non-melanoma skin cancer prevention and detection.





## Areas of operation

- **Main operating location:** Glasgow City
- **Geographical spread:** Operations cover all or most of Scotland






