A charity musical evening was held at Preston Minster on Saturday 13th June at 7pm. The event was held to raise funds for 3 charities – EDN (Eating Disorder Network) Disabled Cricket and CRY (Cardiac Risk in the Young). Councillor Christine Abram and Ruth Lowe organised the function with a splendid raffle and auction and serving
6th June 2009 This charity night was held at The Engine Rooms – http://www.engine-rooms.co.uk – which is a music and arts centre. They let me have it free, as well as donating money from the bar takings and playing in their band too. All free entertainment, we had bands playing live music – including John’s younger
In May 2009, Harvey’s best friend Adam Caine – along with friends from St. John’s Church, Heath Hayes – successfully completed the gruelling Three Peaks Challenge, climbing to the summits of Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Snowdon. Organised by George Green and Bill Caine (Adam’s Dad), the other climbers were Paul Holding, James Holding, Richard Arm,
16th May 2009 A book and cake sale held by the family and friends of Tom Clabburn raised more than a thousand pounds for his memorial fund. More than 150 leaflets promoting CRY’s TestMyHeart tour were also handed out at the event in Ealing, which was organised by Tom’s mum, Claire Prosser. Among those visiting were
Team background The Rockwater 1 is a diving support vessel mainly employed in the oil related industries. 6 of our guys on the cycle challenge are ‘saturation divers’. The ship supports both ‘saturation diving’ (where the divers live in pressurised chambers for the duration of their time onboard – typically up to 28 days); and
I held a raffle and auction to raise money for CRY in memory of my brother John Marshall at a Golf Weekend on May 9th in Wales. A day of fancy dress golfers and golfers’ WAGS [“wives and girlfriends”] and lots of fun! We raised £340 in total which I was amazed at, for such
A sponsored coast to coast bike ride took place on the 2nd May 2009 Our close friend Jeff Kinkade presented a cheque of a fantastic £1, 635. Jeff and his friends started from Cumbria and rode to Tynemouth – and the weather stayed good for them. The money raised will go to our daughter Kasia’s memorial
April 2009 We’re extremely grateful to the staff and directors of holiday company Explore UK who have donated £400 to Tom’s fund. It’s a fantastic gesture on their part and comes after our trip to India with Explore at Christmas. Paul Clabburn
I first ran the London Marathon for CRY in 2007. I wanted to do it again, but not on my own this time. I ran some of the way last time with Sue Fox, another CRY runner this year. Sue lives in Nottingham and I am in London so we couldn’t train together and I feel
I’d like to thank everyone for sponsoring me for my London Marathon. I have to say that as the day grew closer I thought I had to be mad ever to think that I could do it. I’d done all the training and still only covered 16 miles and my 60 year old bones and joints