Read Update 57 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.
Neil Wickers
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Read Update 58 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.
Great North Run 2011
Congratulations and a huge “thank you” to all who took part in the BUPA Great North Run in aid of CRY on Sunday 18th September 2011. This year we had a larger team of 68 CRY runners amongst the thousands of participants. Everyone seemed to enjoy another fantastic race day, despite the aches and pains. The
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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.
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Read Update 44 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.
