17th-18th June 2007 When Mark Davies, a friend of mind for over 30 years, suggested a bike ride from John O’ Groats to Lands End, I told him he was insane and thought I had finally rebuffed his numerous and continuous suggestions to do something special for CRY. Two weeks later, another phone call, another suggestion
Congratulations and thank you to the 152 participants (plus dogs in CRY t-shirts!) who took part in the 3rd CRY Durham Riverside Walk on Saturday 6th October 2012, on one of the sunniest and warmest autumn days this year. The numbers taking part this year were slightly above those of 2011, thanks to the efforts of
The three day event featured a sponsored inter-club doubles tournament with Owen Davidson, Frew McMillan, Mark Cox, John Inverdale, Ken Rosewall, Mike Walker, Geoff Masters, and Fred Stolle, a kids tennis clinic, and an Auction night with Bob Champion. Over £15,000 was raised.
To say first of all, a HUGE thank you for your donations and support for CRY. The Head of the Charity, Alison Cox, was absolutely delighted with everything, and that CRY had enjoyed their best ever day at the London Marathon. One week on , the memories get better and better as the painful parts fade
Rachel King ran the Virgin London Marathon 2014 in memory of Lyra Maharaj and raised a wonderful £4,878.00 for CRY. “Rachel King ran the London Marathon on the 13th April 2014 in memory of Lyra Maharaj, the 3-year old daughter of her dear friend Alex. Rachel only registered to run for CRY following Lyra’s funeral in
“This year’s Richard Waight Memorial Golf Day was held at Doncaster GC on Friday 16 May 2014 and raised £7400 for two young persons heart charities, Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY) and SADS UK. In four years, our golf days have now raised in excess of £25,000 for these charities, with a small amount used
Claire Prosser and a group of volunteers raised £1038 at a book sale held at Munsons Cafe in South Ealing on Saturday 24th May 2014. “With the help of a gazebo to ward off the rain and lots of volunteers we managed to raise £870 at the sale outside Munsons cafe in South Ealing. A generous
On Saturday 10th May, 41 members of a local gym took part in the No Ego Mud Challenge in memory of Louise Worth. “The No Ego Mud Challenge was a 10k obstacle/assault course. There was lots of mud, ditches, trenches, barbed wire, 10ft walls to climb over, water slides, tunnels and lots more. The gymnasium team
Double world champion Ramy Ashour helped raise over £1,000 for CRY by playing a special exhibition match against top England junior Angus Gillams on a night in honour of Harry Faulkner at Berkhamsted. Faulkner, who was also an England junior and a Berkhamsted Squash Club player, tragically passed away at the age of 18 in February
On Saturday 26th April Emma Mayho completed the 2nd round of the Shropshire Mud Run to raise money for CRY. She raised a wonderful £275. “On 26th April I completed Round 2 of the Shropshire Mud Run Series at Bomere Lake, nr Condover, Shrewsbury. It was a 10K mud-run challenge, involving running on a very muddy