The five-mile fell race involves 900 feet of climbing and centres on Sunnyhurst Woods, Darwen. Former Blackburn Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School pupil, David Staff, died aged 17, after collapsing near the end of the 10k Darwen Dashers Road Race in 1994. He was found to be suffering from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a condition resulting from the thickening
David Staff
CRY Update Magazine 52
Read Update 52 online here The CRY Update is the charity’s newsletter, published three times a year, reporting on CRY news and events, cardiac screenings, breaking developments in medical research and CRY supporters’ fundraising over the preceding months.
Funds boost for heart campaign
A £6,500 grant for a screening programme for young people at risk of sudden cardiac death has been approved by Darwen Neighbourhood Board. It follows an appeal by parent campaigners Irene Wickers and Granville Staff, who both lost sons to the condition. Irene’s son Neil, from Darwen, died suddenly aged 31 when he collapsed at a Blackburn
North West Postcard
Families from the Liverpool area and across the North West joined together to help launch a major regional campaign to highlight shocking new statistics that show the number of young people who lose their lives to the tragic condition sudden cardiac death now stands at 12 every week – a staggering 50% rise on previous estimates.
Darwen families' ten years of campaigning pays off
Ten years of campaigning for heart screening has paid off for two families who lost their sons to sudden cardiac death. Irene Wickers, of Darwen, and the Staff family from Hoddlesden set up the North West branch of CRY (Cardiac Risk in the Young) in the 1990’s. They have since worked to raise thousands of pounds
Meet your local heroes
Courageous and dedicated parents Irene Wickers and Granville Staff from Darwen both have one thing in common……they lost their sons to sudden cardiac death at a young age. Both families say they channelled their grief into helping others by forming the Neil Wickers and David Staff Memorial Fund more than eleven years ago. They are both
Annual heart screen chance
The families of two men who died suddenly from heart-related problems are to hold their annual mobile screening event in Darwen on May 5. Funding for the charity event has been raised by the families of 32-year-old Neil Wickers, from Darwen, and 17-year-old David Staff, from Hoddlesden, who would both have benefited from such a screening.
Winner scores for charity
A generous Lancashire Telegraph competition winner has boosted a scheme to screen Darwen youngsters for heart defects. Janet Stuart, 36, of Peniscowles, Blackburn, won the Rovers into Europe competition earlier this year and donated her prize to Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY) charity. Four VIP tickets to watch Blackburn Rovers’ European home game against FC
Postcard campaign aims to save lives
Families whose lives have been devastated by Sudden Cardiac Death are hoping a new campaign will help save the lives of others. National charity Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY) will unveil a new postcard campaign on Friday that features the faces of eight young people from the North West who died suddenly of previously undetected
Bowling reward
Darwen: A charity-bowling match was held at Two Gates bowling club, Anyon Street, on Sunday August 29. The match raised £214 for the Cardiac Risk in the Young charity (CRY), set up by the parents of two young local men. Neil Wickers, 31, and David Staff, 17, from Darwen and Hoddlesden, died as a result of
