South Downs Walk in memory of Luke Meekings

On Sunday 22nd June a group of Luke’s friends and families undertook a walk on the South Downs in memory of Luke who died on 24.06.2008. We walked approx 11kms and finished back at our house for a BBQ and balloon release in memory of Luke. This is the first year since Luke died that we


CRY Update Magazine 56

Read Update 56 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.


CRY Update Magazine 60

Read Update 60 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.  


CRY Update Magazine 61

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


CRY Great Cake Bake 2013

The second CRY Great Cake Bake took place on Friday 29th November 2013, as part of Raising Awareness Week. We would like to thank everybody who took part in the CRY Great Cake Bake and for helping to make the event such a success. Money is still coming in but we are delighted to say that


Fundraising BBQ in memory of Luke Meekings

Friends and family of Luke Meekings, who died of HCM on the 24th June 2008 aged 24, joined together on the 23rd June 2013 to remember Luke and raise funds for CRY. After the BBQ everyone gathered in the garden to release white helium filled balloons and raise a glass in memory of Luke. A total


Match honours lost team-mates

A charity afternoon paid a lasting tribute to the memories of two young Bognor Regis hockey players. Jerry Cox’s Invitation XI side, which featured international hockey stars, crossed sticks with the Middleton and Bognor Hockey Club’s men’s team to raise £2,000 for a national charity. The event was organised to raise funds for Cardiac Risk in


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.


Heart attack at 26

Every week at least eight apparently fit and healthy young people die from an undetected heart condition. Health reporter Siobhan Ryan speaks to one victim lucky enough to have survived. Joseph Tanner learned about his heart condition in dramatic fashion. He had just come to the end of the Hastings half marathon in March this year when