Alison Cox MBE

11th Annual CRY Heart of London Bridges Walk 2017

On Sunday 9th July 1,423 walkers assembled in London’s Potters Fields Park for CRY’s annual Heart of London Bridges Walk. A warm and sunny morning, this was the 11th year of CRY’s flagship event and the 2nd year of a new start venue of Potters Fields Park, on the banks of the Thames and providing a

CRY Update magazine 71

Read Update 71 here CRY Update 71 reports on all the CRY news, events and fundraising from September to December 2016. In this period, we held our annual Raising Awareness Week – including our most successful CRY Great Cake Bake yet. We also saw fantastic support for the Great North Run in September with over 70 runners

Points of Light award for CRY campaigners Stephanie and Rupert Hunter

Stephanie and Rupert Hunter are avid campaigners for Cardiac Risk in the Young. Stephanie and Rupert threw themselves into fundraising for Cardiac Risk in the Young after Stephanie’s son Sebastian died playing rugby, eleven years after her first husband and Sebastian’s father died in the same tragic circumstances. Both had suffered from an unidentified inherited heart

BBC Radio Kent interview – 21st August 2016

Kent cricketer Calum Haggett talks about how his life was saved by a routine cardiac screening in 2010. Paul Daniels then talks about the loss of his son Ben and CRY Founder Alison Cox MBE talks about CRY’s work and how our services have developed over the last 20 years. Listen to the interviews here (Calum Haggett

BBC Radio Nottingham interview – Alison Cox and Heather Reid

BBC Radio Nottingham – 15th August 2016 CRY Founder Alison Cox and Heather Reid talked to Andy Whittaker and Verity Cowley on the BBC Radio Nottinghamshire breakfast show about CRY’s work and the loss of Heather’s daughter Alexandra. Listen to Alison’s interview discussing CRY’s work and responding to the National Screening Committee recommendation not to implement cardiac

CRY Update Magazine 69

Read Update 69 here CRY Update 69 reports on all the CRY news, events and fundraising from January to April 2016. CRY’s biggest awareness event in this period was our BBC Lifeline appeal, broadcast on BBC One and Two in February, presented by CRY Patron Pixie Lott. She not only made her West End debut that

20 Years of Cardiac Risk in the Young

“We have now come to the end of Cardiac Risk in the Young’s 20th anniversary year. It is astonishing, looking back, to see how much CRY has achieved in 20 years. We have produced a short video to show how the CRY office environment has changed from when CRY first started in a back room in

Virgin Money London Marathon 2016

Congratulations and a huge thank you to all the runners who took part in the 2016 Virgin Money London Marathon for CRY on Sunday 24th April. We are very proud of all our runners and grateful to them for their fantastic efforts and for choosing to run for CRY. The 117 London Marathon runners who ran

CRY Anniversaries Grief Booklet

Bereaved parents, partners and siblings discuss how they cope with facing the dates that are forever imprinted on their hearts & minds following a sudden death The charity Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY) is this month [May 2016] launching a powerful new booklet for families who are learning to navigate their emotions through the seemingly