11th March 2009 A special concert at the Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School in West Kensington celebrated the life of a pupil who died aged just 18. Fabian Maingot, who was a pupil at Cardinal Vaughan, died suddenly of heart disease 10 years ago this month. The school’s Big Band, of which he was once a member,
Cardinal Griffin Catholic High School hosted a fundraising evening of popular music, organised by the Head of Music, Yvonne Griffin and sixth form students Ciaren Taylor, John Underhill and Adam Watson – with technical assistance provided by the music department’s Tim Baker. All performers were talented students from the school, presenting an exciting and ‘Preferably Loud’
January 2009 BBC TV news director Gordon Findlay used the retirement of fellow director Nick Davies to raise £50 for Tom Clabburn’s Memorial Fund. In the grand tradition of leaving dos, Gordon made a DVD of Nick’s life and times. It proved to be so popular that he was able to charge people £5 a time
We held a very emotional and memorable Charity evening in memory of Paul. The event was held on the 10th January (the day prior to Paul’s first anniversary and his 23rd birthday) ……. midnight was a hard time for us all. It was held in a local working men’s club who kindly let us have the venue
We recently had a launch party for our new website, which included an auction of film memorabilia, in aid of CRY. We are pleased to announce that we made a total of £283.67 for CRY. The party was held at Oxygen in London’s Leicester Square, on Thursday January 8th. Although we had the entire venue to
Following the sad loss of our beloved daughter Amanda in October last year, family and friends have all been busy thinking of ways to help raise funds to aid CRY research in memory of her. On Saturday 3rd January 2009, Wattisham Station Clay Target Club staged a charity competition shoot in aid of CRY. The day
When our son Stuart died in January 2006 of ARVC we promised his friends that at some stage in the future we would hold a fund raising event in his memory for CRY. After meeting and talking to other families at the Brompton Hospital in February this year we decided the time was right. Unfortunately our
After a number of years of having small, informal cider tasting evenings, it was decided this year to hold a more formal event at Fylde Rugby Club and to try and raise money for CRY. A total of 7 brewers were involved, and the same recipe was used by all (basically: apples, water, sugar and lemons).
After what happened to me this year I wanted to do something for CRY Awareness Week. I wanted to have a stand in Churchills shopping centre in Brighton to give out leaflets and possibly raise some money, but nothing came to fruit. I had so many ideas to raise money for CRY during the week –
Please find enclosed monies to the sum of £1299.90 – this comes as a donation from Barclays of £277, £79.15 from merchandise sales; and the rest from the plough match event itself. We did this event for CRY as a thank you for helping with our son Eric, who was ill.With your help – and special