12th to 15th May 2010 Guy Allen undertook the London to Paris Cycle Ride challenge to raise money and awareness for CRY. This event involves riding 550km in four days! Day minus 1 (the day before) Putting the last stages of preparation together before the big ride. Keeping an eye on the weather forecast for tomorrow,
We chose ‘Cardiac Risk for the Young’ as our charity as it has close links with young people in the area and wanted to pick a charity where our contribution would really make a difference. Our journey began at 15.50 on the 7th May 2010 in Upton-Upon-Severn, a small town in Worcestershire. The walk took us
£382.87 was raised for CRY in the memory of our son Emlyn Wibberley. The money was raised from members of Putney Cricket Club at a 7-a-side intra-club cricket tournament held on Saturday 4th September 2010 on Putney Lower Common. Emlyn was walking to the bus stop to catch his bus to school as usual on the
A book sale organised by Claire Prosser, Tom’s mum, in May 2010 raised more than £750 for Tom’s fund within CRY. We’d particularly like to thank Munson’s coffee shop of Ealing for hosting the event. The picture below shows, left to right, Gina Bentley, Vicky Pearson, Claire Prosser and Sue Howells.
Our Spring fete was held at St Edmunds Church in Chingford on the 22nd May 2010. This event was held in memory of Graham Button, our loving Son, Husband, Father, Brother and Uncle who passed away from Sudden Arrhythmic Death in October 2006. The fete was made possible by the entire Button family and their close
2nd May 2010 The Rotork Red Socks battled the wind and rain to complete the Sarsen Trail, a 26 mile walk between Avebury stones and Stonehenge, to raise money for CRY in memory of Jack. There were 16 team members – June Boulton, Liz Roberts, Helen and Maddy Ollis, Gill Curtin, Tracey Savery, Richard Knight, Dave
I ran the London Marathon this year on behalf of CRY in memory of my sister Pollyanna Hughes (below) who died on 1st March 2006 of Dilated Cardiomyopathy. It was sudden and completely unexpected / undiagnosed. She was 22 years old and studying film and television at Leeds University following in my footsteps as a TV
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