CRY Update Magazine 52

Read Update 52 online here The CRY Update is the charity’s newsletter, published three times a year, reporting on CRY news and events, cardiac screenings, breaking developments in medical research and CRY supporters’ fundraising over the preceding months.


Miscellaneous Fundraising, ServiceMaster Clean Newbury

June 2010 Way back in November of 2009, Nick Dee Shapland, the MD of the company we work for (ServiceMaster Clean of Newbury) announced his intention to get married to Eve, his fiancée. We were informed that the ceremony would be in June 2010. As the HR Manager, I would usually organise a collection for a


South Postcard

Bereaved families from across the Home Counties and South of England are helping to launch a major regional campaign to highlight the shocking statistic* showing that the number of young people who lose their lives to the tragic condition sudden cardiac death now stands at 12 every week – a staggering 50% rise on previous estimates.


Cyclists create a buzz on charity ride through Italy

A group of six cyclists is attempting to ride 1,000 miles across Italy in 12 days to raise money for heart charity Cardiac Risk in the Young (Cry). Team Buzz, originally formed in 2006, is due to set off from Sicily tomorrow (Friday), and will take in Naples, Rome and Pisa on its way to Milan.


Support for cardiac risk charity's work

Money raised in memory of a Newbury woman could help launch a screening programme to save the lives of young people with potentially fatal heart defects. Claire Dee-Shapland died from a cardiac arrhythmia, aged 22, at the family home in Ball Hill, in 2005. Now, her father Nick is raising money through the Claire Dee-Shapland Memorial