Issue 97 of the CRY Update magazine covers all news, events and fundraising from May – August 2025.
This issue includes an event writeup for CRY Heart of London Bridges Walk (Page 19), 2 new partnerships with the Berks & Bucks FA (Page 16) and OrthTeam Centre (Page 17) and the announcement of a new CRY charity ambassador, Danny Lomas (Page 24).
Read issue 84 of the CRY Update magazine here Issue 84 of the CRY Update reports on all news, events and fundraising from January to April 2021. In February as Heart Month began, we introduced an exciting new fundraising initiative: the 25 Million Metre Challenge. Supporters could take part individually or in teams as we collectively
Read Update 79 here CRY Update 79 reports on all news, events and fundraising from May to August 2019. In May, we found out that CRY had been selected for the Tesco Bags of Help Centenary Grant in 10 regions across the country, which gave people a chance to vote to support CRY using their tokens
Read Update 78 here CRY Update 78 reports on all news, events and fundraising from January to April 2019. In March we announced two new additions to our group of CRY Ambassadors: England and GB international hockey player James Gall and artist Katy Jade Dobson. You can read about James and Katy and why they decided
Read Update 67 online here. The CRY Update is the charity’s newsletter, reporting on CRY news and events, cardiac screenings, breaking developments in medical research and CRY supporters’ fundraising over the preceding months.
Read Update 45 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.
Read Update 48 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.
Read Update 50 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.
Read Update 55 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.
Read Update 61 online here In this issue: • ‘Young Sudden Cardiac Death: A Father’s Grief’ booklet launch, page 10 • Justice for James: Reopening the Inquest into the death of James Markham, page 10-12 • CRY at the British Cardiovascular Society (BCS) Conference, page 17-18 • CRY Golf Day 2013, page 18 • West ’12
‘Girl’ – by James Poynton (Click on the title of the song to play it in a separate window) James Poynton wrote the words for ‘Girl’ when he was 8 years old. Just before his 12th birthday, James died suddenly of an undiagnosed heart condition. Whilst he was alive, James asked his friend Barry Waring to
James Poynton wrote the words for ‘Girl’ when he was 8 years old. Just before his 12th birthday, James died suddenly of an undiagnosed heart condition. Whilst he was alive, James asked his friend Barry Waring to set the words to music. Barry did so, and subsequently was honoured to be asked to play the finished
Families from the Liverpool area and across the North West joined together to help launch a major regional campaign to highlight shocking new statistics that show 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.
A Wirral band are releasing a charity single dedicated to the memory of an 11-year-old from Oxton who died from an undiagnosed heart condition. Daywalker have just finished recording Girl, which will raise money for the CRY (Cardiac Risk in the Young) charity. The song was written by James Poynton, a budding musician and talented sportsman
A group from Formby which fundraised in memory of a boy who collapsed and died on a beach has thanked supporters. Formby Shotokan Karate Club raised more than £1,762 in a 50-miole cycle ride following the death of James Poynton, 12, who collapsed and died in the arms of his father Jim, a former sensei at
A father and son from Formby are fundraising in memory of a 12-year-old boy who collapsed and died. Mike Roach, 42, and his son John, 13, will cycle 50 miles for charity following the death of James Poynton who died on a beach. James, who was the son of former Formby Shotokan Karate Club sense Jim
The parents of a schoolboy who died on a family trip to the beach have paid tribute to their loving son. James Poynton, 11, of Waterford Road, Oxon, Wirral, was on Caldy Steps, West Kirby, when he collapsed in his father’s arms. Despite rescuers’ attempts to save him, he died shortly after arriving at Arrowe Park