On Saturday 30th November, The Gobstoppers Glee Club sang their hearts out in a charity concert – “Keep Calm and Sing Your Heart Out” – in aid of CRY. The evening was held at Berkhamsted School, who donated use of their beautiful Dean’s Hall for the event, which raised £1700 for CRY. “It was a brilliant
The second CRY Great Cake Bake took place on Friday 29th November 2013, as part of Raising Awareness Week. We would like to thank everybody who took part in the CRY Great Cake Bake and for helping to make the event such a success. Money is still coming in but we are delighted to say that
Jennifer is 32 and has long QT syndrome. In December 2013 she sailed south around Australia from Albany to Brisbane in the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race – Jennifer has been raising money for CRY and her fundraising total has just hit £5,000. “My name is Jennifer Hill, I’m 32 and I have long QT
Students and staff at Warwickshire College, Henley in Arden Centre, held a very successful Charity Christmas Gift Fair on 19th November. The Henley in Arden Centre has adopted CRY as their charity following the sudden death of our student, Adam Middleton. Students took great pride in making gifts to sell and providing massages and nail treatments
This Halloween McColls will be raising up to £120,000 to fund a CRY Research Fellowship Grant CRY is delighted to be teaming up with McColl’s Retail Group for an extra special Halloween Campaign. This promotion will be in stores for the 3 weeks leading up to Halloween and will include donation boxes in all stores; individual store
The five-mile fell race involves 900 feet of climbing and centres on Sunnyhurst Woods, Darwen. Former Blackburn Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School pupil, David Staff, died aged 17, after collapsing near the end of the 10k Darwen Dashers Road Race in 1994. He was found to be suffering from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a condition resulting from the thickening
The weather was kind for the race on Sunday 20th October, blustery but dry. The race started in Oldham town centre and then took a 3 mile climb to Grains Bar, Saddleworth. The views across the moors are quite stunning from there. From here we weaved our way through a couple of villages and round to Greenfield
I am pleased to say I completed the Birmingham Half Marathon on 20th October 2013 in 2 hours 37 minutes and 8 seconds. Yet again I did the event with my friend Rebecca Haywood. It was an amazing experience with such a great atmosphere – there were around 20,000 people at the event. There was so
The annual Jack Boulton Memorial Trophy was held at Saltford Gold Club on Saturday 12th October and raised £190 for the Jack Boulton Memorial Fund. “Saltford Golf Club held the annual competition for the Jack Boulton memorial trophy on Saturday 12th October. There were 22 teams of 4 playing in a bowmaker competition and each team
On what had threatened to be a wet night but turned out be a mainly dry, if particularly cold night, there was a very large capacity crowd of extremely good-natured mainly young people for the 10th Annual 6th Form Memorial Match, on 10th October 2013. The Sackville v Imberhorne ‘Old Boys’ match kicked off the evening