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On Tuesday November 20th, CRY held
its first ever event at the prestigious National Gallery in Trafalgar
Square, London - a breakfast and private view of the exhibition "Renaissance
Siena: Art for a City".
 On
arrival, guests were served a continental breakfast of orange juice, skewer
of fruit, a selection of Danish pastries and tea and coffee, while they
listened to the short speeches.
CRY Founder and Chief Executive, Alison Cox MBE,
thanked all the guests for attending; GlaxoSmithKline for helping with the
funding of the event, and the National Gallery for allowing CRY to hold the
event at their venue.
She outlined some of CRY’s recent successes as
well as plans for the future, including the
Coroner/Pathology project; the first CRY
Bridges Sponsored Walk led by
Patron Kathryn Harries; CRY’s annual
international conferences -
the first of which was supported by Glaxosmithkline; and the
joint Philips/CRY “Save our Athletes”
screening initiative.
Kathryn Harries, CRY Patron, very kindly stepped
in at the last minute, as our guest speaker, Emily Maitlis, was unable to
attend the event. Kathryn gave a short speech on how she became
involved with CRY and a moving account of how she felt when taking part in
the Bridges Walk with so many bereaved families.
 The
speeches ended with Professor Greg Whyte explaining the importance of the
“Save Our Athletes” initiative.
The guests were then given an informative guided
tour of the exhibition led by guide Carly.
The event gave us an opportunity to thank some
of our London based corporate and other supporters, and was attended by
Patrons Mark Cox MBE and Roger Taylor MBE as well as Kathryn Harries.
Invited corporate guests included
representatives from GlaxoSmithKline; Chubb Insurance Company of Europe;
Deutsche Bank; Royal Bank of Scotland; Lehman Brothers; HSBC; South East
Media Network; BskyB; M S and L; Kiehl’s and shu uemera; and Persimmon
Homes.
CRY Staff and Trustees in attendance included
Professor Greg Whyte; Dr Timothy Bowker; Alison Cox MBE; Steve Cox; Tony
Hill; Anthony Shaw and Rebecca Zouvani.
CRY would like to thank
GlaxoSmithKline; the National Gallery; everyone that attended and Vicky
Deigman for once again volunteering her services as photographer at the
event.
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