Imperial College London chose CRY as the charity to benefit from their annual Arts Fest. The event ran from 6th to 10th February 2006, and featured a variety of music and dance events throughout the week. The Imperial College Arts Festival committee decided to choose CRY as the charity to support, following a suggestion by their
Barbara Keeley MP joined 220 women of all ages in taking part in the Swinton Running Club’s City of Salford Women’s 5-mile Run at the weekend. Barbara took part in the event in order to raise money and support for the charity CRY – Cardiac Risk in the Young. In running the race for the charity,
We would like to thank Richard Woffendin for running the Great North Run in memory of our darling daughter Vicky, whom we lost in August 2003 to Sudden Death Syndrome. Richard is the fiancé of Vicky, and dad to Shannon, their beautiful daughter, now 2-and-a-half years old. Richard was determined to finish the run, and wore
On the 17th September 2005, we held a concert in memory of Alex Buckler – ‘An Evening of Songs For All’. The concert was held at Kings School, Bruton, where Alex was a pupil. Throughout our ordeal they have been very supportive. Rose Byfleet and Edward Marsh were great friends of Alex in his year at
On May 13th 2005, Councillor Mair Gibbs was inaugurated as the new Lord Mayor of the City and County of Swansea. The new Mayor has chosen CRY to be her charity. The inauguration literature said: “Mair has chosen the local branch of Cardiac Risk in the Young, the Christiaan Stuart Smith Memorial Fund [as the Lord
Pippa Bell (44) ran her first half marathon – the Great North Run – on Sunday 18th September 2005, on behalf of the charity CRY and completed it in 2hours 12mins (beyond her expectations!). Pippa began training for the event last March and since then she has been steadily building up to complete the course. She
27th February 2005 James Paterson was a Flight Lieutenant in the RAF when he died on 22nd May 2002 whilst playing football. James was a Geology student at Bristol University before joining the RAF, and in 1999 he surprised us by running the Bristol Half Marathon. In the Autumn following James’ death, his sister Amanda also
3rd February 2005 £339.65 was raised for CRY by our AVCE Travel and Tourism students. As part of their course, the students had to plan, carry out and evaluate an event with a travel and tourism theme. The group of 11 students was split into one group of 5 and one group of 6. The group
Simon’s brother Adam, and his friends Ian King and Warwick Winter, entered the London Triathlon in August 2005. The trio were sponsored for undertaking this challenging event, with Simon’s brother Jason collecting £290 of sponsorship on their behalf. Combined with Doug Cox’s bike ride, plus a raising awareness stall and car boot sale, this brought the
30th July – August 6th 2005 We completed our walk on Saturday 6th August, getting in on schedule and, as anticipated, thoroughly exhausted! The team (James Owens, Andy Blackett and Adam O’Byrne) took just eight days to walk the entire Wainwright route from St Bees in Cumbria to Robin Hood’s Bay in Yorkshire – 192 miles