3rd – 4th April 2010 We [David Woodcock and Edward Higgins] started training for the Devizes to Westminster Canoe Race in December 2009, having heard about the obscure race from a couple of friends over a couple of beers. Neither of us had much experience of canoeing and in fact Ed had never even sat in
25th March 2010 Last March I signed up to be screened when the CRY team visited my school, QEH Bristol, merely as a precaution, not expecting anything to be wrong. However, there was something wrong. The ECG revealed me to have Wolff-Parkinson White syndrome, and as a keen sportsman, this came as a huge surprise. I
25th March 2010 Leeds Metropolitan University PR students Elizabeth Taylor, Adam Burns and Becky Knowles held a SADS awareness raising campaign at the city centre campus and manned a CRY information stand, after reading about the death of 19 year old Leeds student, Tom Reid. The students handed out CRY leaflets and spoke with other students
5th – 6th March 2010 Endurance crimper Daren Terry has cut his way into the record books by snipping away with his scissors non-stop for an amazing 26 hours. Stylist Daren, 41, smashed the existing world record by two hours, getting through almost 40 customers at his salon in Bognor Regis, West Sussex. “We called it
Students from Elsley School and Ernest Bevin College (South West London) had a unique opportunity to meet the Secretary of State for Health, Rt Hon Andy Burnham MP on Thursday 4th March and to thank him for introducing the increasingly popular Swim4life initiative that provides under 16s across the UK with free swimming. The Swim4life project
February 17th 2010 would have been Leanne’s 23rd birthday – our 2nd birthday without our beautiful daughter and sister to David.. Since losing Leanne we have held several fundraising events. As she was such a lover of sport these tended to be different sporting activities, but although she loved her sport she also loved dressing up
Charity night in memory of Paul Wilkins 9th January 2010 Despite inclement weather conditions, the second anniversary in memory of Paul went ahead on 9th January and proved to be just as successful as last year. Once again the Maybloom Working Men’s Club kindly offered the function suite and staff free of charge and this year
Charity Quiz Night 6th February 2010 We held a quiz in Eastling Village Hall in memory of a young man who died in our village a couple of years ago. He was just 18 years of age, his name was Carl Dawson. The quiz was our way of honouring him as a fine a young man.
Rowing from Oxford to Guildford – in memory of Rob Allan 18th to 23rd July 2010 We started out our row from Oxford town centre at about 10am on the Sunday morning, not really knowing what to expect. The first day, being one of our shortest days, we were filled with confidence as we were off
CRY was chosen as one of the charities to benefit from the ICAP Charity Day 2009, thanks to efforts of CRY supporter (and County Representative for Kent) James Brown, whose wife Katrina died suddenly in 2006 aged just 31. ICAP is a large multinational company in the finance sector that presents itself as “…the world’s premier