 Mason is a former chairman of the Bolton Referees' Society and is associated with the Lancashire County Football Association.His younger brother, Andy Mason, is a former professional footballer who was a trainee at Bolton Wanderers, and played professionally for Hull City among others, before ending up playing in Non-League.Mason attended Thornleigh College in Bolton and then the Liverpool Institute of Higher Education between 1990 and 1993, living in Newman Hall, where he gained his degree.