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).
As part of CRY’s raising awareness week in November 2025, Hayley (Richard’s wife) held a cake sale at her workplace to raise both funds for future heart screenings and awareness of the charity itself. The day was a roaring success with a huge variety of baked goods on offer, many of which were home-made and […]
Issue 96 of the CRY Update magazine covers all news, events and fundraising from January – April 2025. This issue includes an event writeup for London Landmarks Half Marathon (Page 39), TCS London Marathon (Page 42) and a recap of Hearth Month including the Charity Heroes campaign (Page 27) and Women in Cardiology (Page 32). […]
100 people were screened on 31st August 2025 at Havant RFC. This screening was in memory of Richard Brember. Thank you to all involved.
Issue 95 of the CRY Update magazine covers all news, events and fundraising from September – December 2024.
This summer we have raised another £800 at Sam’s Sunflowers, Hayling Island, by being allowed to take over their ‘Snipper’ hire stand for 2 days this year. It brings the total we have raised, thanks to Sam’s Sunflowers, to well over £2,000 in total over the last few years. Sam’s Sunflowers has grown to become […]
94 people were screened on 19th of May 2024 at Farnham Rugby Club. This screening was in memory of Richard Brember. Thank you to all involved.
Why Do I Support CRY? – 2023 During Heart Month 2023, CRY launched ‘why do I support CRY?’. The campaign aimed to personify and tell the stories behind CRY. We asked our supporters to send in their reasons for supporting CRY so we could share across our social media what CRY means to so many. […]
96 people were screened on 1st October 2023 at Havant RFC in Hampshire. This screening was in memory of Richard Brember. Thank you to all involved.
When Richard Brember died in June 2018, aged 32, of an undiagnosed cardiac problem, he had just been appointed 2nd XV skipper at Farnham RUFC. His family became aware of the work that Cardiac Risk In The Young (CRY) were doing to better understand and support families affected. One of CRY’s key elements is to […]
Read Update 88 here! Issue 88 of the CRY Update magazine covers all news, events and fundraising from May to August 2022. During the four-month period, we screened over 7,000 people with 6,972 being screened at family screening events. Furthermore, CRY’s Research Team was recognised at the British Cardiac Society with some members even receiving awards.
The IoW Randonnée* means a lot to me – it accounts for 3 of the 4 organised cycling events that I did with Richard (and friends) – in 2013, 2014 and 2016. Understandably 2017 was missed due to Richard’s and Hayley’s impending wedding taking priority and 2018 due to my own cardiac bypass surgery. We had
Read Issue 83 of the CRY Update magazine here Issue 83 of the CRY Update reports on all news, events and fundraising from September to December 2020. Even with continued restrictions and lockdowns due to the COVID-19 pandemic, CRY’s supporters remained active and engaged as always to raise funds and awareness however they could. On October
Click here to read Update 81 Issue 81 of the CRY Update reports on all news, events and fundraising from January to April 2020. This is also the first issue of our new and improved digital editions of the Update, featuring links throughout that will take you straight to relevant pages on the CRY website, social
Read Update 80 here CRY Update 80 reports on all news, events and fundraising from September to December 2019. September got underway with the Great North Run, as 50 runners representing CRY took part. You can read more on page 22. To start October we held the 10th CRY Durham Walk, with 219 supporters gathering to
106 local young people were screened on the 20th February 2020 at Farnham Rugby Union Football Club. The screening was held in memory of Richard Brember.
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
104 young people were screened at Bracknell Rugby Football Club in Berkshire on Sunday 8th December 2019. The screening was held in memory of Richard Brember.
As a finale to their China-UK University Rugby Friendship Week, playing host to students and officials from Xiamen University, the University of Portsmouth (UoP) wanted to give their overseas visitors an insight into English club rugby with a match, preceded by a dinner. They asked Havant RFC, Richard’s rugby alma mater, to host it and they
My daughter Hayley is terrified of heights so when her husband Rich got her up the CN Tower in Toronto Canada on their holiday in May 2018, her Dad and I were pleased he was helping her face her fears. Very sadly this was their last time away as on 9th June (2 weeks later) we
On 15th September 2019 Chris Brember completed the 980 mile Deloitte Ride Across Britain from Land’s End to John O’Groats in 9 consecutive days and has raised £6,100 for Cardiac Risk in the Young. Chris undertook the ride in memory of his brother, Richard, 32, who sadly passed away last June after suffering a cardiac arrest
Chris Brember is currently taking part in the Deloitte Ride Across Britain, cycling 980 miles over nine days from Land’s End to John O’ Groats, finishing on September 15. Chris is riding in memory of his brother and best friend, Rich, who died unexpectedly last year, aged just 32, after he suffered a cardiac arrest. Chris
Eagle Radio, 7th September 2019 Having suffered the sudden and tragic loss of his 32 year old brother Richard to cardiac arrest, Chris Brember from Fleet is taking on the challenge of the Deloitte Ride Across Britain- a journey of nine days, cycling from Land’s End to John O’Groats- in order to raise funds for and
During the month of December Sarah brought in treats for her office with the aim of raising money for Rich’s fund with CRY. Having tasted her excellent baking previously I am not surprised to announce she raised £102.37 from her sales. Thank you Sarah!
Elowen raised £48.90 at a cake sale at her Brownie unit – 2nd Drayton Brownies in November 2018. Mammy then very kindly took the unsold cakes into work to sell bringing the total to £55.50! Well done Elowen!! Now over £100 raised for Rich’s fund with CRY!
On Sunday 5th May, myself, Rich’s brother Chris, and 9 of his close friends took part in the 2019 Isle of Wight Randonnee 100 km cycle ride in memory of Rich. The Randonnee is a truly friendly cycle event organised annually by the Wayfarer Cycletouring Club encouraging all ages and abilities to participate on everything from
Read Update 77 here CRY Update 77 reports on all news, events and fundraising from September to December 2018. There were plenty of major events throughout this four-month period. We were thrilled to be so well represented at the Great North Run on September 9, with 50 runners taking part for CRY. You can read a
After Richard passed away from a heart condition at the young age of 32, his amazing wife Hayley started fundraising for Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY) to raise awareness of avoidable deaths due to undiagnosed heart conditions. Her dedication to raising awareness, compelled me to do something to help Hayley achieve her fundraising target. I
Thank you and congratulations to the 69 CRY runners who took part in the London Landmarks Half Marathon on Sunday 24th March 2019! We were so pleased that we managed to see and cheer on all of our runners on the day, despite the 13,000 runners taking part. We were fortunate that the weather was sunny
What can I say…such an amazing day! I can’t thank everyone who helped organise the event and for all of the supporters enough. The cheers, claps and high fives really helped me to keep running particularly as I was really nervous. I wanted to take part in this challenge to raise awareness for CRY. An amazing
Read Update 76 here CRY Update 76 reports on all news, events and fundraising from May to August 2018. We had plenty of highlights in all areas through the summer. CRY’s research continues to make an impact, including Dr Aneil Malhotra’s paper on the incidence and causes of young sudden cardiac death in adolescent footballers, which
Georgie went sober for October to help raise funds for Rich’s CRY Memorial Fund. The double sucker being she was in South Africa whilst doing it, aka wine country! To use her own words halfway through October “Okay so this has been sooooo much harder than I thought being surrounded by a big volunteer party culture
On the 21st October, 3 friends of Rich’s took part in the Great South Run. Ben and Chris, friends of Rich’s from school days and Charlotte, a college friend of Rich’s wife Hayley. Ben and Chris said they would do it “dressed in something suitably ridiculous, in honour of Richard’s great sense of humour, and love
After a promising start to the weekend, weather-wise, the day itself started badly with rain approaching biblical proportions all morning, but no-one was going to let that stop them – Oh No! Arriving first were about 75 players from the 4 clubs (Havant RFC, Warwick University RFC, Bracknell RFC and Farnham RUFC) of which Rich had
Over £300 was raised by a group of colleagues from Yeomans Nissan in Bognor Regis by doing a 10k run around Goodwood Motor Circuit on the 9th of September. Richard’s father-in-law Ian works at this garage and his colleagues wanted to do something in an effort to support him and raise some money for CRY. Peter
£55 was raised by Elowen at her birthday party in September as her contribution to fundraising in memory of Richard Brember. Hayley Brember