Sailing event boost for James's charity

Friends of boy who died at 15 turn out for fund-raiser

A fun-packed sailing day in memory of a popular Great Amwell teenager, who died from a form of Sudden Death Syndrome, pulled in a terrific £230 for charity.

Nearly 30 local Scouts, school pupils and avid young sailors, took to the waters to raise funds for the charity CRY (Cardiac Risk in Young People), in honour of sports-mad James Wood, who tragically died in September 2002.

The group of big-hearted fund-raisers, many of whom were friends of James, gathered at Broxbourne Sailing Club in Meadgate Road, Nazeing, on Saturday September 18 for the third annual charity event in James