3 years ago this month my little sister collapsed suffering a cardiac arrest at the age of only 23. She was rushed to St Georges hospital and spent several days in an induced coma whilst we all anxiously waited to understand if and how she would recover. Thankfully she woke up and slowly over the next
I wanted to run the Bristol Half Marathon to raise money for CRY in memory of my fiance, Gary Edwards who passed away unexpectedly on his stag do in Poland six weeks before our wedding in July 2015. I have to admit my training didn’t go quite go to plan in the run up to the
Over 300 CRY supporters took part in the 7th CRY Durham Riverside Walk on Saturday 1st October 2016. Thank you to everyone who attended and helped to make the day so special. This year, for the first time, permission had been obtained for a new route which included Durham’s historic city centre. It was, as always,
Following two years of very hard work and tremendous fun, we finally had our MissusHippy Country Covers Album launch on Friday 2nd September 2016. MissusHippy are a country duo comprising of Drew Shearer and Gail Collins. We decided there was no better cause than Cardiac Risk in The Young to dedicate all monies raised in memory
On the 24th September we had a fundraising event at Tesco Lea Valley in memory of our son Nadeesha Jayawardena. The team at the store had helped in various ways to ensure the day went as smoothly as possible. All of the staff working in the store were dressed in red and were wearing red heart
Congratulations to all our runners who took part in the Windsor Half Marathon 2016! The sun was out and we only had a couple of light rain showers throughout the day, which was lovely for the families and friends who came to watch but tough running conditions for the team! Many of the runners came to
James McGowan was the son of my close friend, Ellery McGowan. Ellery and I first met at Charterhouse Club when we both moved to Guildford in 1996. Through our mutual passion for swimming, we became close friends and of course, this meant my path crossed with her son, James, many times. She always spoke about his
Four and a half years ago Jasper, who is now 11, lost his uncle Toby unexpectedly. Not long ago I found the card that Toby wrote to Jasper on the day he was born. It read: “Little man, if only you knew what I have in store for you.” Everyone who knew Tobes knew exactly what
Back in February I did one of those things that we all do at the time and press a button and say yes but later on kick yourself for doing it. I can even remember where I was when I said yes. I wanted to do something to remember a very inspirational young man called Jordan Burndred
Congratulations and a huge thank you to the 74 runners who took part in the Great North Run for CRY on Sunday 11th September 2016. This was CRY’s biggest team yet! The atmosphere was brilliant, as it always is at the largest half-marathon in the world! Double Olympic gold medallist Mo Farah won the race
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