What can I say…such an amazing day! I can’t thank everyone who helped organise the event and for all of the supporters enough. The cheers, claps and high fives really helped me to keep running particularly as I was really nervous. I wanted to take part in this challenge to raise awareness for CRY. An amazing
On Sunday 3rd March 2019 we held our very first bake sale and tombola in memory of Tom, at the Pillar of Rock, a Wetherspoons pub in Bolsover, Derbyshire. It went extremely well! We were blessed to have a lot of creative and gifted bakers who kindly baked and donated so many lovely cakes to our
On March 10th a group of friends all took part in the Finsbury Park 5 & 10k in support of the charity CRY. In 2012, our wonderful, warm and vivacious friend Alex Hubbard passed away at the tender age of 21 as the result of an undiagnosed heart condition. Our lives have never been the same,
The Rotary Club of Preston Guild donated £300 to the Heartfelt Group in Preston in order to hold a screening in memory of Stevie Wiggins. Christine Abram from Heartfelt was delighted to accept this donation. Christine Abram
While having a couple of drinks with my partner and Ben’s mum Carole, they jokingly said I should shave my head for charity and I agreed. Thirteen hours later we’d raised £200. I couldn’t believe it, so me and Zoe, Ben’s sister, decided to raise the target to £500. We decided that the head shave would
On January 24th 2019 Colin Woolway, an internationally acclaimed drummer (who for many years played drums for rock legend Suzi Quatro) had “Bit Of A Do” for his 60th birthday at The Hideaway in Streatham, inviting as many drummers as he could think of, but also, combining it with a fundraiser for Cardiac Risk in the
We had our 3rd Cake fest on Saturday 9th March.This time we held it at Wittersham Village Hall from 10am till 1pm. We had an amazing amount of homemade cakes donated for the day. People could either come along and buy a cake to take away with them, or stay and enjoy eating their cake with
The quiz night was on Thursday night (21/02/2019), we had a fantastic turn out and everyone seem to enjoy themselves. To make the night even better we managed to raise a massive £811!! Robyn Smith
These photos are from our Name The Teddy competition which we ran at Francesca’s shop, Angel Wings Floral. Pictured with the bear whose name turned out to be Jack, is Paul Vogel who guessed the name correctly along with his wife Carole. They gave Jack to their grandaughter Layla who is pictured with her daddy Richard
I hold a cake sale every year in memory of my son Mattie’s friend Ethan who died suddenly of an undetected heart defect at the tender age of 6 in 2010. Mattie also now holds his own event to support Ethan’s memory and this year had his own very successful cake sale at school . We made