Following the success of CRY’s inaugural Heart of London Bridges Sponsored Walk in 2007 the event took place again in 2008, with over 600 CRY supporters in attendance. The walk, led once again by CRY Patron Kathryn Harries, started at Victoria Embankment Gardens and ended at Hays Galleria near London Bridge. The route involved crossing 8
Young footballers with a Telford Junior League side helped raise £500 in memory of a 15-year-old former team-mate who died from a rare heart defect Luke Morris died last August and members of the Dawley Wanderers team handed the money over to Ian Morris, Luke’s father. Mr Morris, from Claverley, will pass the money onto charity
Following the success of the ball we organised in 2006, we decided to do the same again this year with the hope that we could at least match the money raised last time. 120 tickets were sold for the event at the Woodlands Banqueting Centre in Swanley and the evening was a wonderful success – we
Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London CRY’s second ever annual Family Medical Conference took place on June 14th 2008, at the Institute of Child Health in London. The four expert speakers at this event were Dr Elijah Behr (right) – who spoke about Ion Channelopathies; Dr Sanjay Sharma – who presented on the subject of
29th June 2008 Dawn Sanderson and Mark Brown participated in the Great North Walk at Herrington Park, Sunderland, to raise money for CRY in memory of Kasia Ber. “We both enjoyed this event very much and raised £150 for a good cause.”
It all started with one of us saying “surely we can manage to make a sponge and put the kettle on”………………and it turned into a bonanza of bun making, lavender bag stitching and bunting hanging – a quest to raise a few pounds for CRY. Our beloved Paul, who died in January 2006, loved Battenberg, loved
Well we did it! We walked 60 long kilometres (that’s 37.5 miles in old money) on a very hot 10th of May across the South Downs – starting and finishing at Goodwood racecourse, taking in the stunning scenery and hills of Arundel, Amberley Brooks, Bignor Hill and Graffham Down on route. We started the day with
21st May to 6th July 2008 The South West Coast Path is Britain’s longest National Trail, running from Minehead in Somerset to South Haven Point near Poole Dorset. The path includes two UNESCO World Heritage sites; The Jurassic Coast plus the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape Minehead to Poole 1014km/630 miles A continuous path around
In October 2007, my friend Kathy and I attended our first CRY bereavement support day at Wimbledon Park Golf Club. Whilst driving home and discussing the day, we decided we wanted to do something to raise some money for CRY in Cheryl’s memory. Ron and Donna (Cheryl’s Dad and sister) were in agreement. Kathy’s church St.
In April 2006 the members of Lodge Hopetoun St. John No. 1232, a small Masonic Lodge located in Linlithgow, West Lothian, were stunned when they heard that one of their youngest members had tragically died from a previously undetected heart condition. David Cochrane, aged 22 years, a former dux of Whitecross Primary School and head boy