After leaving Minehead on July 8th I have now finally completed the 630 mile walk around the South West Coast path. I arrived at South Haven Point in Poole on Thursday 19th August – 6 weeks after setting off from Minehead. The walk was great. I met some amazing characters; saw some stunning places and had
We set off at 4pm from the foot of the South Downs in sweltering heat, which gradually progressed to icy fog once we reached the summits. The first twenty miles were relatively calm, easy and in sunlight but when night fell things got trickier. Map reading became more complicated and encouraged us to go quite badly
Just before Christmas last year my brother, Andrew, announced that he was thinking of cycling across the Pyrenees in June for my son, Rich’ and would Pete, my husband, and myself be able to help in any way at all. In later months he admitted that I could be heard holding my breath from several miles
7th March 2010 We ran the event in CRY T-shirts and had Jack’s name and picture on the back. It was an emotional day and the team consisted of June Boulton (Jack’s mum); Liz Roberts and Kathryn Knibbs (Jack’s aunties); football team members Ian and Adam Rider, and Adam Hicks from Saltford; and friends Richard Ollis
Sapphire Systems chose CRY as their charity of the year from October 2010. They raised a wonderful £5,179.92 in this time with some great fundraising and awareness raising events. “It has been a real pleasure having CRY as our Charity of the Year. Please see pictures of all the fun we have had raising £5,179.92 for
On Tuesday 13th December 2011 The Foresters Heathrow Branch held a cheque presentation evening for their fundraising efforts for CRY which raised £1,070.00. Once again Foresters Heathrow Branch have raised £1070 towards CRY during 2010 and a cheque was presented to Martin Appleby at the December 2010 Branch meeting. These funds were raised by holding raffles
Ealing Choral Society’s carol concert on Saturday 10 December at St Barnabas Church raised £4000 in aid of the Tom Clabburn Memorial Fund, a local charity, which raises funds and awareness of Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY), and organises free heart screenings in west London for young people aged 14-35. In the presence of the
Several of the 6th formers were a part of a fashion show that raised funds for several good causes, including Cardiac Risk in the Young. This event was organised by Romani Leigh Bryant and Charlie Scott who arranged all the clothing, leaflets and stalls that were set up on the evening. Andrea Lunn The students raised
On Friday 4th November 2011 Brenda Luckett held a cheque presentation evening for their two day Annual Motor Cycle Trials School which raised £3,000.00. “Here is the photo we took at the Cheque Presentation evening we held last Friday, we raised £3,000 for CRY for Martyn’s memorial fund at our two day Annual Motor Cycle Trials
November 2011 “Staff and students at Kuwait English School recently held a charity coin collection to raise funds for the Shamil Hamid Memorial Fund. Each class was given an empty pot and asked to bring loose change to school, to fill it. Competitions abounded as children saw the level of coins rising to fill their class