
CRY unveils international singer & songwriter Arjun as new Charity Ambassador
As part of its 25th anniversary year, Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY) is proud to announce the news that international singer and songwriter, Arjun, will be joining the charity as an official Ambassador

CRY shares new research developments at ESC Congress 2020
Dr Michael Papadakis has been a key member of the CRY team for years after first joining the charity when he started his training as a CRY Research Fellow in 2007. He’s continued to develop

Young people lose out on ‘life-saving’ CRY heart screenings due to lockdown
CRY usually provides free heart checks for over 30,000 young people every year in the UK, but we have had to halt our specialist services over the past 8 months. One of the many families

Looking Back at 25: The importance of CRY’s Memorial Funds
For the past 25 years, bereaved families have reached out to CRY for support and solace in their darkest of times. CRY has – and always will be – here for those families and individuals,

12 A Week Challenge 20th – 28th November
Join Team CRY during Raising Awareness Week and complete 12 miles to represent the 12 young people who die each week from young sudden cardiac death.
You can complete 12 miles by either walking, running, cycling or swimming. The miles can be completed over the week or in one go!

The Importance of CRY’s Research Programme with Prof Sanjay Sharma – recording
Professor Sharma spoke about how CRY’s research has impacted the way we look after families after a young sudden cardiac death as well as the way it has influenced the way we screen young people.

Looking Back at 25: CRY’s Great Cake Bake
CRY’s annual Raising Awareness Week has always been an essential part of our year. It’s a time for us to place even more emphasis on raising awareness of young sudden cardiac death and how CRY

CRY supporter Dr Sandhu speaks to Sunrise radio about her sister Natasha
CRY supporter Dr Vanessa Sandhu spoke to Shabnam Sahi from Sunrise Radio about her sister Dr Natasha Coomaraswamy and the impact of her death in 2018.

Looking Back at 25: A decade of CRY’s Durham Walk
In the autumn of 2007, The Durham Riverside Walk (as it was originally known) was pioneered by bereaved dad and loyal supporter, Jeff Morland – whose son, Levon, had died from the condition Wolff-Parkinson-White (WPW)

Virtual Virgin Money London Marathon 2020 write-up
Congratulations to team CRY! For the first time in the history of the London Marathon, the event went virtual on Sunday 4th October! Despite the difficult year 2020 has been, 38 CRY runners, all spread

Virtual Heart of Durham Walk 2020
Saturday 3rd October 2020 marked the 11th CRY Heart of Durham Walk. Although due to COVID-19 we were unable to meet together, many CRY families took part in the Virtual Walk in their local communities, helping to raise awareness of CRY.

Looking Back at 25: CRY’s history at the London Marathon
CRY’s supporters have taken part in countless different fundraising activities and events since the charity was founded 25 years ago, and one of the key events where our support has continued to grow over the

Looking Back at 25: CRY at the annual ESC Congress
This year, like so many other events, conferences and public gatherings, the 2020 European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress (29 August – 1 September) was held remotely, for the first time in its 50-year-history. In

Conference Agenda 2020 – 16th October 2020
This annual event will be a webinar this year, broadcasting from 09:00 to 17:30 on Friday 16th October 2020. The conference attracts speakers and delegates from around the globe, including many of the world’s leading experts on sports cardiology and young sudden cardiac death.

CRY’s new digital Update magazine
We decided to change our typical mailing process as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, in an effort to make savings where we can. This has resulted in the CRY Update magazine primarily moving online,

CRY Update Magazine Issue 81
Issue 81 of the CRY Update reports on all news, events and fundraising from January to April 2020. This is also the first issue of our new and improved digital editions of the Update, featuring

Looking Back at 25: The week that shaped the future of CRY screening for years to come
Over the past 25 years, CRY’s history has been defined by a range of ‘turning points’, underpinned by the actions and interventions of individuals and groups (whether families, MPs, doctors or governing bodies from the

Looking Back at 25: How Pixie Lott became a Patron and helped CRY reach a new generation
CRY has always been fortunate to have had the support of an illustrious list of Patrons – largely from the world of sport, due to CRY’s early associations with tennis and the initial screening of

Looking Back at 25: The development of the CRY Centre for Cardiac Pathology
Before CRY began in 1995, young sudden cardiac death (YSCD) was never considered to be a significant health issue. It was quite the opposite. The common belief was that there was just one young sudden

Looking Back at 25: The CRY International Medical Conference
The CRY International Medical Conference is our most important research event every year. It provides an opportunity for leading experts in sports cardiology, inherited cardiac diseases and young sudden cardiac death to share their new

Looking Back at 25: CRY raises awareness at Trafalgar Square’s Fourth Plinth
For around 175 years, the fate of the famous ‘Fourth Plinth’ in London’s Trafalgar Square has been hotly debated with a wide range of innovative installations and contemporary creations taking their place on the vacant

It’s time for CRY’s Beefy screening van to retire
In 2002, we were very proud to announce Sir Ian Botham as one of CRY’s first Patrons. The first event Beefy attended for CRY was in Parliament at the launch of the Cardiac Risk in

Looking Back at 25: The ICAP Charity Day and launching CRY’s national screening centre
Our last blog post on CRY’s screening programme focused on the early years. We looked back to when our testing was just getting underway and how we developed over the late ‘90s and early 2000s.

Looking Back at 25: How one of CRY’s youngest supporters helped write a new chapter in our fundraising history
For this article we’re going to look back to 2005, the year of CRY’s 10th anniversary… From day one, Alison Cox and the team at CRY have often been ‘lost for words’ at the amazing