2016

MP pledges support to campaign to help save young lives

Lancashire Evening Post – 16th December 2016 At a packed parliamentary reception Chorley’s MP Lindsay Hoyle met bereaved families, researchers, charity patrons and fellow MPs as he signed up to a campaign to help save young lives. Read more

CRY Parliamentary Reception 2016

On November 23rd CRY held its 15th Parliamentary Reception, where CRY announced the latest campaign in government urging all MPs to sign a pledge to support a National Strategy for the Prevention of Young Sudden Cardiac Death. The event was hosted by Sir Roger Gale MP (Conservative), Dr John Pugh MP (Liberal Democrats) and Kevan Jones

Santa Dash for Dale

On Sunday 18th December 2016 we held a Santa Dash for Dale Tennent-Butler’s memorial fund which holds CRY heart screening for local Kings Langley young people. This year we held our 5th screening at Kings Langley School –  so we have tested close to 1000 young hearts. We raised £4000 which includes a donation page from

The Great Curry off in memory of Balinder Mann

I decided to do a curry off instead of a bake-off, as my baking skills are not up to scratch.  I made 45 curries for all my colleges at work (Agility Logistics) and sold them to raise money for the CRY. They went down a treat, my colleges loved them and can’t wait for the next

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

Tough Mudder in memory of Craig Sykes

On 6th January 2016 my fiancé Craig suddenly passed away. He was at work just a normal day with his whole life ahead of him. We had a holiday to Florida planned that year and our wedding booked for the 10th June 2017, on this day my whole world fell apart when I got the call at

Jack Boulton 2016 golf competition

The annual Jack Boulton golf competition (15 October 2016) held at Saltford Golf Club saw 28 teams competing. The winning team was made up of Pat Adams, John Nicholls, Ryan Sainsbury and Rhys Morgan with a run away total of 109 points. Rhys is pictured with Dave Boulton accepting the trophy on behalf of the team.

South Cheshire College Community Day in memory of Ceri

A Community Day was held at South Cheshire College, Crewe, on Saturday 18 June 2016. Alison and her son, Joel, held a Cardiac Risk in the Young stall in memory of their daughter and sister, Ceri. Cakes and others items were on sale, as well as a prize draw and many local people were very interested

South Cheshire College cake bake in memory of Ceri Palmer née Howells

A CRY Cake Bake was held at South Cheshire College on Monday 21 November in memory of our daughter, Ceri.  It was a huge success and many members of staff bought delicious cakes and supported CRY’s amazing work at the same time. A previous colleague of Alison’s made a large CRY cake which was raffled around