During 2018, the Spurling cousins all had milestone birthdays – Carter was 21, Cameron & Tate were 18, and Freya was 16. They celebrated with a big family party in July, named Four Shades of Ginger, and chose to ask guests to donate to charity, rather than receive gifts. Everyone had a brilliant time at the
With a team name of Weed it and Reap, 2 Gnomes a.k.a Nikkita Haymes & Chris Ainsworth, Monty the Mole, Silver the Ford Mondeo and Rebus the CRY mascot teddy drove 3,300 miles across Europe in 10 days whilst taking part in the Rust 2 Rome challenge. The teamed raised a fabulous £640 for CRY in
Garstang Town Council organised it’s first ever Scarecrow Festival this summer and chose Matt’s Fund at CRY, and Macmillan in the Northwest as their official charities. They asked a group of 4 local ladies who do a lot of fundraising for different causes and who are known as Team ShazzAnn, to help them fundraise. As well
£413.55 was raised at a coffee morning organised by Eileen Byrne for the Julian Wort Memorial Fund. My friend, Lisa Fairhurst, made a lovely chocolate cake and we decided to raffle it, raising £55 in the process. It was a lovely morning with plenty of cups of teas and coffees, cakes, raffles and a book stall.
It has taken me a while to get over the triathlon, it didn’t go that well to be honest. The swim went brilliantly, getting a personal best. However, I started cramping up within half of the 90k cycle, and it gradually got worse, to the point where I fell off two-thirds of the way round because
After 12 months of planning 29 cyclists and 4 support drivers left the small North Staffordshire village of Bignall End at 4:00am on the morning of Wednesday the 22nd August for the drive down to Lands’ End in Cornwall. Their goal was to cycle the 408 miles back to Bignall End to raise money for the
Congratulations and a huge thank you to the 50 runners who took part in the Simplyhealth Great North Run for CRY on Sunday 9th September 2018. It was once again a lively event, living up to its billing as the world’s biggest half marathon. There were plenty of people out to show their support and to
These photos are from our Take That tribute evening at Wakefield Trinity Rugby League ground at which we raised £227.00 for Rory’s Foundation at CRY. The first photo shows Pauline Moorby with Colson Smith (Craig from Corrie) who came and supported us on the night. Pauline used to be Colson’s dinner lady, so it was a
These photos are from our visit to the Bad Company Gym in Horsforth. We were invited to visit as a group of boys had organised a charity boxing event in support of CRY. The lads involved were Travis Filono, Louis Dennison, Ben Stephenson and Jake Uren. Their teacher James Bovington was instrumental in the organisation of
These photos are of some of the people who came and supported us and took part in Chris’ Pub Games Night and some of the activities they participated in. We raised £402.50 for Rory’s Foundation at CRY and a great night was had by all. Anne Embling