I had heart surgery aged 10 to correct a number of cardiac defects. I was lucky, in so much that my conditions were identified & part corrected before I suffered serious consequence. As a result I’ve had a healthy & fairly active life. I played competitive football into my 40s along with squash & other sports.
Fundraising for Robert Burns Memorial. Football competition, raffle and tombola raising £1,400. We fundraise every year for Robert. We hold cake stall and raffle at our local leisure centre and then raffle and football tournament at our local football pavilion. This is usually held during the bank holiday weekend at the end of May. We have been doing
Bridie McCann celebrated her 80th Birthday in style, surrounded by her loving family and friends. Sadly, one special person was missing, Darren Joliny, her grandson who sadly passed away suddenly playing football in 2012 at the age of 21. As a family, we have done various events and fundraisers for CRY since this affected us, including
This year the staff at Marks & Spencer in Bridlington have chosen to support the charity CRY, Cardiac Risk in the Young. It was the sudden and devastating loss earlier this year of James Moorfoot that lead to the staff choosing this charity. James aged 28 tragically died whilst playing football for Langtoft and through this
On Sunday 9th July 1,423 walkers assembled in London’s Potters Fields Park for CRY’s annual Heart of London Bridges Walk. A warm and sunny morning, this was the 11th year of CRY’s flagship event and the 2nd year of a new start venue of Potters Fields Park, on the banks of the Thames and providing a
My husband, sister and I running the Manchester 10k on Sunday 28th May. We completed the race in a time of 1h 10min and 50 seconds which is not bad considering the giant costumes! We had a great time and raised around £500 for CRY in memory of Emily Rose Dunn. Frankie Dunn (running with Robert Dunn
We had an amazing response to our music event (JimJam) on 9th June, with almost 300 people attending a fantastic evening. The venue was actually where James and his band had previously played. Three bands kindly offered to play including one of James’s band members who made a solo appearance. We also held a raffle with
We did the CRY Heart of London Bridges Walk in memory of Rachael Kiely-Cohen, who passed away in 2014 aged 18. We gathered together on Potters Field with hundreds of families all feeling the same – we were doing our bit, but this shouldn’t happen. The walk began and passers by started looking at the T-shirts
On the 6th July 2017, 7 very terrified staff and friends of the Mc’Colls retail group completed a sky dive from 15,000ft, raising over £1000 for CRY. The day was absolutely fantastic and thoroughly enjoyed by all.
Hi, my husband Paul organised a gig night in June in memory of his brother James, who passed away of an undiagnosed heart condition at the age of 27, he loved music and played the drums . We had 4 bands over the evening and a raffle all raising money for CRY. We raised about £4000