Brad and Daniela Herrington, along with their friends and family, held an awareness stand in the Grafton Shopping Centre in Cambridge on Saturday 18th January 2012. They managed to hand out a wonderful 1500 leaflets and received £75.00 in donations at the stand “What a day we had on Saturday, the stand looked great and we
23rd June 2013 Well I’m now recovering from what has been the hardest event I have ever done in my life, EVER. On Sunday 23rd June at 6.30am on the beach at Nice the challenge started, and 13 hours and 24 minutes later, job done. The challenge was IRONMAN France. This is rated as one of
Me (Eleri Buck) and best friend Laura Venables of 8 years decided to put on Pembrokeshire Talent Charity Showcase due to two particular experiences we have experienced in our lives. My devastating experience was losing my Mum when I was just 13 years old to sudden adult death syndrome. Being so sudden it made it extremely
Each year family friend and ex-publican John Thompson has a charity fundraising event in memory of the chef, Tony Boardman, who worked for him at his pub, The Glass Barrel, in Tyldesley, Greater Manchester. Tony sadly died shortly after the pub closed in 2008. This year’s fundraiser was in aid of CRY and in the memory
‘The CRY for Matthew Ball was held at The Albrighton Hall Hotel in Shrewsbury and 180 guests were thoroughly entertained and drained of all available funds!! A raffle brought in over £1000 for a chance to win a golfing holiday in Spain. Christina Trevanion of ‘Bargain Hunt’ fame was auctioneer for the evening where we were
Julie Wright, Richard Wright, Jessica Tait, Simon Tait, Camille Cooke, Kevin Cooke, Richard Peers, Irena Tucker and Huw Tucker climbed Mount Toubkal (4167m) in Morocco in memory of our friend Emma Broad who died in May 2011, raising over £21,000 for CRY. On Saturday May 4th 2013 nine slightly anxious ‘would be’ mountaineers met up at
Thank you and congratulations to the 21 CRY runners who took part in the Bupa London 10,000 on Sunday 25th May 2014 including CRY Patron, Bill Neely. We were extremely lucky with the weather as it had been raining the previous day and also the days following the event. The morning started off a bit cloudy
11th August 2012 On Saturday 11th August 2012 friends and family played in the annual Ben Simpson Open golf day to celebrate Ben’s life. A wonderful £800 was raised. “The Ben Simpson Open was finally met with glorious sunshine for the first time in a number of years so anticipation of a cracking round of golf
17th August 2011 Joe Simpson organised this year’s golf tournament in the memory of Ben Simpson at Selsdon Park Golf Club on Wednesday 17th August. “This year’s Ben Simpson Open was taken on the road for the first time ever with Selsdon Park hosting. A little drizzle in the morning gave way to glorious sunshine in
On Friday 28th May Shaun’s friend, Samantha Brown, organised the charity event in his memory to celebrate of Shaun’s 25th birthday. The event raised £1,543 for CRY. There was a fashion show, which his sister Keelie took part in, the Star Dance Team, singers and disco. It all took place at the Notts Working Men’s Club, Leicester. About 250 tickets were sold