Matthew Dewhirst

CRY for Matthew Ball

‘The CRY for Matthew Ball was held at The Albrighton Hall Hotel in Shrewsbury and 180 guests were thoroughly entertained and drained of all available funds!! A raffle brought in over £1000 for a chance to win a golfing holiday in Spain. Christina Trevanion of ‘Bargain Hunt’ fame was auctioneer for the evening where we were

CRY Update Magazine 62

Read Update 62 online here “Traditionally we have found that the last few months of the year are a very busy time, often with several major fundraising and raising awareness activities taking place. September finds our runners busy in the Great North Run and Run to the Beat events; whilst in October our annual Durham Riverside

West Postcard

Families from across the West of England joined together to help launch a major regional campaign to highlight the shocking statistic that 12 young, apparently fit and healthy young people (aged 35 and under) are tragically dying every week in the UK from previously undiagnosed heart conditions. A poster-sized version of an emotive new postcard –

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

Sue Dewhirst – Cornwall

I found out about CRY on 20 July 2012, the day after my only son, Matthew, died aged 17½. It was the county coroner who suggested my husband Chris and I Google for ‘Cardiac Risk in the Young’ to find out why our extremely fit boy should suddenly go. I think in the back of our

Four screening days in Shropshire

Shropshire Star – 1st January 2014 Four CRY screening days will be held in Shropshire, thanks to the hard work of Sue and Chris Dewhurst, who lost their son, Matthew, in 2012. Read more