CRY’s screening-based research programme revealed that far from the UK losing eight young lives a week to undiagnosed heart conditions – a terrible figure in itself – the number was actually at least 12.
CRY relaunched its postcard campaign in October 2008 to reflect this and Tom was among those featured. We still find looking at all the young faces on this postcard extremely upsetting.
To raise awareness of the heart-related risks facing young people, we marked the first anniversary of Tom’s death by placing an advert in the Tottenham programme for a match that fell on October 5.
This was a personal initiative by the family, no money from Tom’s Fund was used to pay for the advert.
Tom’s sister, Ellen,helped organise a cake sale in aid of CRY at the school they both attended, Drayton Manor High School in Hanwell.
The event raised £100.
Tom’s last match was a Carling Cup final tie so it seemed right to try to raise awareness at the Carling Cup final.
This was a family initiative, taken before Tom’s Fund was set up, and thus no money from the fund was used in the placing of the advert.
