During 2016 I completed a Diamond Challenge to celebrate 60 years of the Duke of Edinburgh Awards. As I am in my 60s and I use to skate in the 60s I set out to skate 60 hours having not skated for 45 years! The challenge was staying up right and fitting the hours in! I
Two CRY families are nearly £1,000 better off thanks to the generosity of the folk of Sheffield. The Manor Operatic Society of Sheffield’s panto this year was Jack and the Beanstalk and two CRY families were lucky enough to be able to collect for CRY after the eight matinee performances at Sheffield’s City Hall. The families
On Wednesday 12th October 2016, St. Thomas’ Catholic Primary School, Tean hosted a Coffee Morning in remembrance of Joe, who was a pupil at the school. The Coffee Morning was in aid of CRY (Cardiac Risk in the Young), and they raised a remarkable £500. Many thanks to all of the parents, friends and kitchen staff
During 2016 I completed a Diamond Challenge to celebrate 60 years of the Duke of Edinburgh Awards. As I am in my 60s and I use to skate in the 60s I set out to skate 60 hours having not skated for 45 years! The challenge was staying upright and fitting the hours in! I managed
I am delighted to be able to tell you that we have raised £460 from our cake bake and raffle. This is up £70 on last year’s total. This will be donated to the Ceri Palmer née Howells Memorial Fund. Ceri was a student at the University and her mother has requested that our fundraising helps
With regards to both the day and the reasons behind running The Oxford Half Marathon on behalf of CRY, it would not have been possible without meeting a lady called Emma Jones. Emma’s brother Iain was taken at the age of 26 only a couple of years ago, and we were inspired by both the efforts
In October 2006 very suddenly we lost a father, husband, son, brother and uncle – Graham Button to sudden cardiac death. Over the last 10 years the family have endeavoured to raise as much money as possible in Graham’s memory for CRY. Events have included walks, cakes sales and gala dinners. But this year to mark
We managed to raise £4’000 for our Cry charity, we also supported another charity which is fitting defibrillators in local areas in Bedfordshire which links in nicely with our CRY charity. The day was fantastic and people donated generously which was very touching to us and Marks family. James, Mark, Shane and Marcus were best friends
Our local Girlguiding group held their annual Christmas carol concert at the beginning of December, each year the collection goes to a nominated charity. I put forward CRY and it was agreed. I spoke during the service about what the charity does and we prayed for my friend Ella Keeler who passed away from an undiagnosed
On Saturday December 3rd 2016, a charity race night with auction and raffle was held for Cardiac Risk in the Young. The venue was Allscott Sports & Social Club in Telford and was attended by members, family and friends. A lot of hard work went into making this event a success by Peter Starling who is