South Wales Argus, 24th February 2020 Under the scheme, customers nominate a charity by donating a shopping token and the charities with the three highest numbers of tokens receive a donation. Jack’s Appeal with Cardiac Risk in the Young was chosen at the Asda store in Blackwood. The fund provides free cardiac screenings to young people
Western Telegraph, 18th February 2020 The Let’s Get Quizzical event was held at The Pavillion, County Showground, with teams travelling from near and far to take part. The winners were the Past Presidents team, made up of captain Dick Davies, Roger Mathias, Richard Cole and Mike Davies. Second place went to Wuhan United and the Pussycats
Tenby Observer, 1st December 2019 The Amroth Arms pub in collaboration with Harvey’s Murder Mystery Group recently hosted a fundraising Murder Mystery dinner event in aid of Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY). A three course meal was served to nearly 100 guests while an interactive ‘Murder Mystery’ took place for them to discover ‘whodunnit’. Following
Caerphilly Observer, 21st November 2019 The Caerphilly County Borough Council have approved a motion to support Cardiac Risk in the Young’s (CRY’s) campaign for the government to introduce a national strategy for the prevention of sudden cardiac death in young people. The council also encouraged the Welsh government to consider providing a free heart screening programme
Tarryn Lowth, Ryan Joint, Ruth Burrows, John Drewett, Andy Fraser, Rosen Petrov, Joanne Farr and Kev Saunders all took part in the Cardiff Half Marathon in Memory of Dean Fletcher. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuZyiinWaz4&feature=youtu.be
Members of staff from the Idris Davies School 3-18 took part in the Cardiff Half Marathon on Sunday 6th October, in memory of their pupil, Jake Pickford.
South Wales Argus, 3rd October 2019 The group of 6 friends from Monmouth School for Girls – Elinor Hart, Maddie Taylor, Scarlett Sarsby, Ellie Horton, Myfanwy Fleming-Jones and Catrin Jones – trained diligently for the Forest of Dean Autumn Half Marathon and completed it in under 2 hours and 15 minutes. Through taking part in this
CRY CEO Dr Steven Cox spoke with Mike Zeller on BBC Radio Cumbria this morning about the importance of CRY screenings, followed by CRY supporter, David Hughes, who is holding a screening for 100 young interns at the Barrow Shipyard this weekend, in memory of his son, Daniel. Starts at 1:41:42
The Leader, 4th July 2019 MP of Alyn and Deeside Mark Tami showed his support for Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY), attending the charity’s first ever ‘drop in’ session at Portcullis House along with 50 other MPs. The event was hosted by Kevan Jones MP, a long-time supporter of CRY and Chair of its All-Party-Parliamentary
The Leader, 28th June 2019 MP for Delyn, David Hanson, attended an event in support of charity Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY) in show of his support to their campaign for there to be a national strategy for the prevention of young sudden cardiac death. This event, the charity’s first ‘drop in’ session, was held