The Grantham Kesteven Rotary Club held a very successful Charity Golf Day on Thursday the 9th June in glorious sunshine. The event, held at Belton Park Golf Club in Grantham raised money for President Chris Thurlow’s chosen charities, which included CRY. We were delighted that Dani West was able to come along to talk about the
My grandson & I did our skydive on 12th August. We were in the Lowestoft Journal for 2 weeks and on both Radio Suffolk & Essex where CRY was well promoted. The event was with UK Skydiving at Ellough Airfield in Suffolk near Beccles. The team there were really great and the dive was brilliant. I
After months of organising and planning the day my big ‘Steel City derby football match’ took place at Hillsborough Sports Arena in memory of my best friend Kyle Hancock. Kyle passed away peacefully in his sleep in October 2011 due to Sudden Arrhythmic Death Syndrome, ever since I have been raising funds and awareness for Cardiac
Chasetown Football Club hosted a charity football match and family fun day on Sunday 7th August 2016 in memory of Hednesford man, Neil Bradbury, of Littleworth Road, who died suddenly of an undiagnosed heart condition on Sunday 15th November last year at the age of 35. The fundraising event, organised by Neil’s younger brothers Marc and
For the sixth year Team David ran the Bognor 10k in memory of David Green. Young and old alike raised money and awareness for cardiac risk in the young. The day was yet again a great success the weather was perfect, all runners completed the course. David’s dad made his famous curry for the barbecue afterwards
On Wednesday 24th August 2016 we raised close to £200 for CRY with final donations still coming in. Through Lloyds we have a scheme that for the money we raised we get matched funding so whatever we make we will have it doubled. It was a great day and we managed to raise a lot of awareness
My sister, Louise Teeder, sadly passed away from a heart condition, that no one knew she had, 2 years ago at the age of 33. I had never heard of CRY before this, but they were very supportive and do such great work in raising awareness so we can try to prevent such tragedies from happening.
On 30 June I gave a piano recital at St Pancras church (opposite Euston station) in central London in aid of CRY which raised around £1270 pounds in total. I currently work for NHS regulator NHS Improvement although I used to be a part time concert pianist. I retired from financial services in 2005 and was
We raised £2,030 during the following events: Christmas cake – £130 Alison Schofield, owner of “The Salon” which offers hair and beauty treatments in Heywood held a raffle for a homemade Christmas cake and raised £130. Third annual cricket match: Tommy’s Lemons v Eggers II – £1,400 This was the third annual cricket match arranged by
The winner of the 5-a-side football tournament were Team Logic who also won ‘The Michael Land Memorial Plate’ last year, 2015. Other fundraising activities included a raffle, lucky dip, face painting and a ‘whiskey roll’. In total we raised £1,145. The A1 Football Factory are to host a screening day on Sunday 8th January 2017 and