Martyn Luckett

CRY Update magazine 71

Read Update 71 here CRY Update 71 reports on all the CRY news, events and fundraising from September to December 2016. In this period, we held our annual Raising Awareness Week – including our most successful CRY Great Cake Bake yet. We also saw fantastic support for the Great North Run in September with over 70 runners

Virgin Money London Marathon 2017

Congratulations and a huge thank you to all the CRY runners who took part in the Virgin Money London Marathon 2017 on Sunday 23rd April. We’re extremely proud of everyone and grateful for being so many people’s chosen charity. 107 runners supported CRY this year, running the 26.2 mile course through the centre of London. Running

CRY Update Magazine 70

Read Update 70 here CRY Update 70 reports on all the CRY news, events and fundraising from May to August 2016. The 10th annual CRY Heart of London Bridges Walk took place on June 26, and another fantastic turnout of over 1,200 supporters took part in the new route for 2016. We very much appreciated all

Brad Olde fundraising beetle drive for Cardiac Risk in the Young

Bude Today – 13th December 2016 A fit young man who suffered a cardiac arrest last year is helping to raise awareness of Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY), with a recent beetle drive raising more than £650. Brad’s aim is to raise awareness for screenings, and how important they are in avoiding a life threatening

Annual motorcycle trials school 2016 in memory of Martyn Luckett

This was our 24th and last annual motorcycle trials school that we were going to do. Martyn was a keen motor cycle trials rider and was always involved until 11 years ago when he passed away suddenly. We put together some amounts to present a cheque on that evening where we said that we had raised

Fundraisers host final trials in honour of Martyn Luckett

North Devon Journal – 25th August 2016 Brenda and John Luckett have been organising motorcross trial schools at their farm in Hartland for the past 24 years – raising nearly £60,000 for charity Cardiac Risk in the Young over the years.

CRY Update Magazine 69

Read Update 69 here CRY Update 69 reports on all the CRY news, events and fundraising from January to April 2016. CRY’s biggest awareness event in this period was our BBC Lifeline appeal, broadcast on BBC One and Two in February, presented by CRY Patron Pixie Lott. She not only made her West End debut that

Virgin Money London Marathon 2016

Congratulations and a huge thank you to all the runners who took part in the 2016 Virgin Money London Marathon for CRY on Sunday 24th April. We are very proud of all our runners and grateful to them for their fantastic efforts and for choosing to run for CRY. The 117 London Marathon runners who ran

Life saving day

On 12th May 2015 our son Bradley Olde, who was just 20 at the time, went out jogging and collapsed with a cardiac arrest. He had stopped breathing for approximately 8 minutes when a neighbour passed who knew first aid procedure and applied CPR until an air ambulance arrived which took Brad directly to Plymouth Hospital.