On Sunday 11th March a team of 21 friends and family took part in the Cambridge Half Marathon in memory of Joe Herrington and have so far raised an amazing £8,292.03 from their run. “When I first saw that Cambridge was going to have it’s first half marathon for 18 years, I wondered who I knew
On Saturday 18th February 2012 Chris Smith and friends held a raffle to raise funds for the Andrew Parr Memorial Fund. They raised a wonderful £657. “We are sending a cheque today for £657 which has been raised through holding a raffle. We had many prizes some being generously donated by; West View Leisure Centre, Andrew
On Saturday 14th January 2012 Preston Grasshoppers Rugby Club held a cider tasting event in aid of CRY. The champion cider was the Corporal Punishment Brew created by Mike Lough and the event raised £251.83. “Following the inaugural cider tasting event in 2008 in aid of C-R-Y, five seasoned brewers were yet again willing to take
On Monday 2nd January 2012, Matt Day (Founder and Manager for The Barnabas Sports Trust) celebrated his 40th birthday by holding a Brazilian football tournament to raise money for CRY and The Barnabas Sports Trust Thirty youngsters who regularly attend South Devon Brazilian Soccer School took part in the morning tournament, displaying many of the skills
More than 100 music fans and charity supporters enjoyed an evening of live music at the Leigh Village Hall on a wild and stormy Saturday night before Christmas. The evening – in aid of Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY) – raised well over £750 when d’dogs and Bovvered? – two of the best rock bands
On Friday 27th January 2012 a special evening was planned with CRY patron, Bill Neely, to raise money for CRY and Little Missenden Infant School. A late call away to the Falklands for work for Bill, meant the evening had to be saved by a colleague James Mates who stepped in and helped raise a wonderful
since losing our beloved son Shamil in December 2010 to an undiagnosed heart condition we have been trying to raise awareness of this cruel and silent syndrome that takes the lives of 12 young people a week in the U.K. Although Shamil was living in the U.K. when we lost him, we were, and still are,
Basingstoke It was around 30 degrees on the day and so extremely hot. I was aiming to do the run in 2 hours which I had trained for and should have been capable of doing quite comfortably. However, because of the heat I struggled from about the 3rd mile. The course was extremely hilly too, and
On what proved to be a particularly cold but dry night, there was a capacity crowd, of particularly young people, for the event. The Sackville v Imberhorne ‘Old Boys’ match kicked off the evening at 6.15 with some very energetic and skilful football. After 20mins each way, the final score was 2-1 to Sackville Old Boys.
The launch party was held at The Jubilee Hall in West Rainton, County Durham and was attended by friends and family of Steve Percival and his band: Nick Phillips, Paul Stevens, Michael Wilkinson, Emma Callaghan, The bon Achord singers, Will Lang, Colin Nicholson, Bruce Macdonald Lowes, Barry Henderson, Jeff Morland, John and Elaine Lawler and Richard