It all started back in February this year. I had heard that there was going to be a charity ball for Josh Merrick’s 21st birthday. I spoke to Karen and Andy Merrick who are Josh’s mother and father asking if it was OK if I could do a charity boxing event to raise awareness for C-R-Y
I am pleased that I completed my 5k run as I had suffered from Pneumonia in June/July this year. I managed to beat my personal best by finishing in a time of 20mins 26 seconds. It was great conditions, cool with a nice breeze. There were about another 600 or so fun runners taking part and I
My friend Lydia and I held a bake sale the day after Run to the Beat and spent a total of 13 hours baking over the weekend in preparation. It was held in Elizabeth House in Waterloo and the response was fantastic. The workers in the building were incredibly generous with many donating money to charity as
The fourth date on the Miccoli tour brought the band to Cambridge at the Grafton Centre. Unfortunately due to being located in a congested part of the centre, Saturday was a fairly quiet day for the band. On the Sunday however, Miccoli were moved to a better location within the centre and were approached by a
We held a Loom Band Day in Lytham, some children (Paige, Olivia, and Erin) came in to make Loom Bands and one of our staff members (Vickie), held a master class on the making of various Loom Band designs. The day was a great success, exactly 100 Loom Bands were sold and the money raised came
Yay I did it!!! It did take 29.26 hours and I have 3 blisters but it was amazing!!!! We set of at about 8.45 and felt very excited!! The weather was perfect sunshine but not too hot and the views amazing!!! Action challenge’s organisation, the route markings, kind and helpful volunteers, food and first aid well
On Sunday 22nd June a group of Luke’s friends and families undertook a walk on the South Downs in memory of Luke who died on 24.06.2008. We walked approx 11kms and finished back at our house for a BBQ and balloon release in memory of Luke. This is the first year since Luke died that we
Congratulations and a huge ‘thank you’ to the 51 runners, including CRY Patron Matt Wells, who took part in the BUPA Great North Run in aid of CRY on Sunday 7th September 2014. This year’s race saw over 56,000 runners take part in a very historic year for the event, seeing its one millionth finisher! Once
Last weekend Miccoli played at The Lights centre in Leeds. This pretty Centre was fairly quiet with more restaurants than shops, however many of the shoppers who were visiting the centre stopped to listen to the band and were interested to learn about CRY. So far the band has been approached by a variety of people
Last weekend, (Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th September), leading financial protection insurance company and CRY Corporate partner, Unum, opened the doors of its Dorking-based Head Office as part of a national Heritage weekend. The ‘hub’ of this UK-wide company is situated in a beautiful, recently restored Jacobean building and the team welcomed visitors over the two