This year’s walk is on Sunday, June 24.
You can sign up here: https://www.c-r-y.org.uk/bridges-walk/
You don’t need to raise money, just walk the bridges and raise awareness of the more than 6,000 young adults we’ve lost to undiagnosed heart conditions since Tom died.
We’d love to see you there.
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Supporting CRY.
CRY’s 12th annual Heart of London Bridges Walk will take place on Sunday, June 24, 2018.
You can register here: https://www.c-r-y.org.uk/events/events/cry-heart-of-london-bridges-walk-2018/
We will be taking part for the 11th year and, as ever, we would love to see you there to remember Tom and Claire.
You don’t need to raise sponsorship to take part, it’s enough to walk and raise awareness of the loss of 12 young people a week to undiagnosed heart conditions.
Paul and Ellen x
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Neo presents the cheque on behalf of Munsons to Vicky.
Munsons Coffee and Eats have donated a cheque for £250 to Tom and Claire’s fund.
The cafe, in St Mary’s Road, Ealing, have supported the fund for many years.
CRY supporter and family friend Vicky Pearson, who accepted the cheque on behalf of the fund, said: “Claire was a regular customer at Munsons, meeting friends and holding fundraising book sales.
“Munsons holds memories for many of us and to receive this donation shows what a special place it is.”
The money will contribute towards further heart screenings to be held in Ealing next year.
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With Ruth Cadbury, MP.
CRY’s All-Party Parliamentary Group reception at the House of Commons on Wednesday, November 22, will long stay in the memory.
Firstly, because it is always nice to hear how Tom’s friends are getting on and on this occasion it was a pleasure to catch-up with Brentford and Isleworth MP Ruth Cadbury, whose son, Joe, was a schoolmate at Little Ealing Primary School. We have known Ruth for many years and she is a long-standing supporter of CRY. It is typical of Ruth, who belongs to the all-party group, that she found the time to come to the reception and show her support.
Secondly, because, like buses, great speeches seem to come along in pairs.
CRY supporter Montana Brown with Ellen.
Love Island and CRY, I suspect, share pretty much the same target demographic. The choice of one of the show’s stars, CRY supporter Montana Brown, as a speaker was, therefore, inspired. Ms Brown spoke about the value of CRY’s latest publication, ‘A Friend’s Grief’, telling of how, aged 17, she had lost a close school friend; of her feelings of disbelief; of going into shock; of waking up in the mornings not wanting to go to school and covered from head to toe in a rash. It was raw, it was from the heart, and it was one of the most honest and courageous accounts of sudden loss that I’ve heard.
As if that wasn’t enough, CRY’s chief executive, Steve Cox, concluded by delivering an incredibly powerful speech. He was passionate about what he wanted CRY to achieve and there was more than a hint of anger when he described the manner in which CRY’s research, based as it is on the UK’s largest screening programme for young people, had been ignored by the UK’s National Screening Committee.
These were two fine speeches delivered in the heart of Westminster. It would be nice to think someone was listening.
CRY Patron Andy Scott (third left) and family with CRY founder Alison Cox (centre) and chief executive Steve Cox (far right).
Claire and I always remembered that while some folk crossed the road because they didn’t know what to say to us after Tom died, Tom’s friends – and Ellen’s too for that matter – always made a point of crossing the road to talk to us. It didn’t mean, of course, that they didn’t have their own sorrow to deal with. CRY have now bought out a new booklet ‘A Friend’s Grief.’
http://www.c-r-y.org.uk/cry-launches-new-friends-grief-booklet/
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