Mitchell siblings raise £11,000 for three charities
Wilts & Gloucestershire Standard – 14th April 2013 Brother and sister team, Pip and Guy Mitchell from Tetbury raised almost £11,000 by running 150 miles in five days, for three different charities, including CRY. Read more
Friends of Claire Squires to run first London Marathon
Harborough Mail – 12th April 2013 Nicola Short and Lucy Marlow will be running their first marathon whilst raising money for The Squires Effect, in memory of Claire Squires in aid of Cardiac Risk in the Young, Add Action and the Hope charities. Read more
Huw Rodgers takes on 120-mile hike to raise £5,000 for CRY
Daily Post, 11th April 2013 Huw Rodgers is hoping to raise £5,000 for CRY when he takes on a 120 mile walk from St David’s in Wales to Bridgend over 5 days. Huw embarks on the challenge in memory of his friend Darren Smith. Read more
Claire Reed’s family campaign for heart screenings
BBC News online – 4th April 2013 The family of a 22-year-old Claire Reed has called for more screening to detect undiagnosed heart conditions. £5,000 has already been raised which will supply a day of screening for young people in Southampton Read more
Marathon des Sables in aid of CRY
City a.m. 2nd April 2018 Millennium Capital Partners trader Stephanie Allen is heading out to Morocco on Thursday to run the Marathon des Sables in order to raise funds and awareness for CRY. Read more
BBC School Report scheme covers issue of sudden cardiac death in the young
News Shopper – 30th March 2013 Schoolmates of Ben Daniels, who died in 2001, have filmed a report as part of a nationwide BBC news scheme, including an interview with Ben’s father, Paul Daniels. Read more
Life-saving advice for students in memory of Reece Jeffrey
This is Derbyshire – 21st March 2013 Pupils at a city school will be taught life-saving skills for a second year running – following the death of a student with an undiagnosed heart condition.
Rugby tournament in memory of Luke Chapman
Birmingham Mail – 15th March 2013 Six under-16 squads will take part in the tournament on Sunday in memory of Luke Chapman. Read more
Lands End to John O’Groats virtual cycling challenge in memory of Ben Daniels
News Shopper – 28th February 2013 Five friends of Ben Daniels have taken part in a cycle challenge in his memory to raise money for the Ben Daniels Memorial Fund with CRY. Read more
Father campaigns for heart screening in memory of his son
ITV News Central – 24th February 2013 The father of Pardeep Nagra, who died in 2008 from sudden adult death syndrome, has raised over £7,000 for CRY, enabling 200 youngsters to have their hearts screened. Mr Nagra said: “My son was full of life and our lives are very hard now. We are doing this so
£1,500 donated in memory of Barrie Lee
Arbroath Herald – 18th January 2013 Over £1,500 has been donated to CRY for sudden death syndrome in memory of Barrie Lee. Barrie died while working in Ghana in 2012. Read more
£9,000 raised in memory of Kyle Hancock
Buxton Advertiser – 13th January 2013 The friends and family of Kyle, who died in 2011 from Sudden Adult death Syndrome, have raised almost £9,000 in his memory through tournaments and carol singing events. Read more
Max Lowry Exhibition
An auction held on 16 September during the Private View of Max Lowry’s art works at the Mall Galleries in London raised an impressive £27,350 for CRY. Max (picture right) died suddenly almost exactly a year ago, on 24 September 2010, on the eve of his wedding to Jane Davies. Suzanne Lowry, Max’s mother, said that
Match honours lost team-mates
A charity afternoon paid a lasting tribute to the memories of two young Bognor Regis hockey players. Jerry Cox’s Invitation XI side, which featured international hockey stars, crossed sticks with the Middleton and Bognor Hockey Club’s men’s team to raise £2,000 for a national charity. The event was organised to raise funds for Cardiac Risk in
Ex-Soccer ace at charity fundraiser
Former Welsh international footballer and coach Terry Yorath was among 800 people at a charity football tournament held in memory of a Risca man who died suddenly from a heart condition. Sunday’s event was organised by the family and friends of Craig Powell, who died while working as an asbestos contractor two years ago on his
CRY visits Bevin
On Tuesday 29th June 2010, 70 students from Year 10 in Ernest Bevin College were offered free cardiac screening by the heart charity Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY). As part of this event and to raise awareness and vital funds for CRY, hundreds of Bevin boys raised money for the charity with a series of
Chris's marathon run in memory of football team-mate
A council worker is to run the London Marathon in memory of a friend who died before a game of football. Chris Speed, 30, of Bollam Close, Connah's Quay, a goalkeeper for Wepre Rangers Football Club, was due to play against Holywell Town at their ground in Halkyn Road in 2008. Chris, an accountant for Flintshire
Finding the answers
In 1993 Howard English collapsed and died while playing a game of rugby. The 32 year-old was a keen sportsman, fit, apparently healthy, and married with three young children. Eleven years later the eldest of those three children, Sebastian, died in identical circumstances to his father. He was just fifteen. Both were victims of Sudden Unexpected
When death is hidden
Scott McCollin was a fit young man. He never smoked, he never drank alcohol. Perhaps a rarity for a 20-year old DJ. Rarer still was the way Scott died. After collapsing at a go-karting track whilst on holiday in Lanzarote, the young man was soon pronounced dead at the scene. Doctors say he died from Sudden
Siblings to tackle Great North Run
Five Armagh brothers, and their sister, are taking part in the Great North Run on Sunday to raise funds for CRY (Cardiac Risk in the Young). Sam, Davy, Mark, Johnny, and Matthew Nicholson, and sister Ruth, will undertake the run which is just over 13 miles. Last year they successfully completed the Adidas Silverstone Half Marathon
Father calls for compulsory screening
The father of John McCall, the Royal School rugby team’s Schools’ Cup-winning captain who died as a result of a heart defect in 2004, has once again called for more screening of young people. Ian McCalll spoke to the Gazette following the recent deaths of two young children in Tyrone and insisted all children of secondary-school
"Mission: Implausible" – charity motorcycle challenge in memory of Anthony Child
“Mission: Implausible” will see Chris Gordon attempt a 14-day, 3500-mile solo ride around the coast of mainland Britain, on a twenty year old, 85cc stepthrough motorcycle Chris is undertaking this challenge in memory of his good friend Anthony Child – known to his friends and relatives alike as ‘Budgie’ – who died in November 2004, aged
Running for a reason Great North Run Members Update – August 2007
My name is Michele Wilson, I am 22 years old and I am running the BUPA Great North Run this year and raising money for the charity CRY (Cardiac Risk in the Young). On 20th September 2006, my 23-year-old brother Kevin (my only sibling) died of an Arrhythmia. His death was a complete shock, as he
Stage star Kathryn getting ready for her walk-on part
By Lisa Williams Kathryn Harries, 56, is an international opera star and former BBC television presenter. On top of her successful singing career she has supported many charities – the latest of which is Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY). Kathryn is embarking on a fundraising 32-mile walk from Hampton Court to Tower Hill on Saturday,
We will never forget our little sunshine girl
Little Kallista Heavey was just eight months old when she died suddenly in Paris of what was initially thought to be an allergic reaction. In the space of just a day, the bubbly baby turned into a very sick child because of what was later found to be heart disease. Now her family are campaigning to