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Posted by PaulClabburn on Jun 29, 2015 in 2015, Awareness, CRY London Bridges Walk, Fund-raising event

Wow! What a turn out for @CRY_UK London Bridges walk

Team Tom VIII – or most of them – walking for Claire and Tom. With thanks to David Bentley for the picture.

A huge ‘thank you’ to all those who walked in memory of Tom and Claire at CRY’s annual Heart Of London Bridges Walk on Sunday, June 28.

Maybe we shouldn’t be surprised but Ellen and I were astounded by the turn out – more than 60 people took part for Team Tom VIII. It’s one of our largest-ever groups of walkers.

Team Tom VIII helped CRY achieve a record number of walkers with more than 1,800 people taking part. To put that in context, when we first took part in 2008 – only CRY’s second Bridges event – there were around 600 walkers in total.

Raising awareness is a key purpose of the walk and the growing numbers reflects that the message is spreading. Anyone who has ever walked has played a part in that.

If you also raised funds, it’s hugely appreciated. On that note a special thanks to Ann Huybrechts and former BBC colleagues of Claire’s who were sponsored to the tune of more than £1,600. A brilliant effort. If there were others who raised money that we don’t know about, please contact us.

We were also touched by those, young and a tad older, who made the effort to greet the walkers at the finish. They included Jacob, below. It’s for people like him that CRY exists, to give young people the opportunity to be screened (OK, so he’s got 13 years and 49 weeks to go before he’s eligible but we like the picture).

Sleep easy: Three-week-old Jacob supports CRY’s campaign.

To all who walked, we can but say again: ‘Thank you’.

Posted by PaulClabburn on Jun 21, 2015 in 2015, CRY London Bridges Walk

Seven days to go to @CRY_UK London Bridges walk

Help to prevent 12-a-week.

CRY’s ninth annual Heart of London Bridges Walk takes place in a week’s time, on Sunday, June 28.

Tomorrow, Monday, June 22, is the last day for registration but you can still turn up on the day and register at the event. Full details here.

Hope to see you there!

Posted by PaulClabburn on May 28, 2015 in 2015, Awareness, CRY London Bridges Walk

A month to go before the @CRY_UK London Bridges Walk 2015

Team Tom 2014

We’d be thrilled if you could join Team Tom VIII for the 9th annual Cardiac Risk in the Young London Bridges walk, taking place on Sunday, June 28.

You can register for the event here .

Don’t worry if you can’t fund-raise, the event is as much about raising awareness as cash. After eight years of walking, CRY understand that it’s not easy to keep trying to obtain sponsorship.

So enjoy a stroll through the centre of town to mark CRY’s 20th anniversary year and wear the CRY T-shirt.

Claire believed it was an important way to promote the message that the loss of 12 young lives a week was unacceptable. She was determined never to miss a Bridges Walk. It would be lovely if you could help us keep that commitment alive.

Posted by PaulClabburn on Mar 28, 2015 in 2015, Awareness, Cardiac Risk in the Young, CRY London Bridges Walk, Fund-raising event

12 weeks to go before the @CRY_UK London Bridges Walk 2015

We’d be thrilled if you could join Team Tom VIII for the 9th annual Cardiac Risk in the Young London Bridges walk, taking place on Sunday, June 28.

You can register for the event here .

Don’t worry if you can’t fund-raise, the event is as much about raising awareness as cash. After eight years of walking, CRY understand that it’s not easy to keep trying to obtain sponsorship.

So enjoy a stroll through the centre of town to mark CRY’s 20th anniversary year and wear the CRY T-shirt.

Posted by PaulClabburn on Jul 11, 2014 in 2014, Awareness, CRY London Bridges Walk, Fund-raising event

Picture fest of the @CRY_UK Bridges Walk

Team Tom VII walked London’s Bridges for CRY.

CRY have added loads of pictures from the Bridges Walk on to their Flickr account – including the official team photo and many “action” shots of Team Tom walkers.

Thanks again to all who took part – you will probably be able to see yourself somewhere here.

Posted by PaulClabburn on Jul 6, 2014 in 2014, Awareness, CRY London Bridges Walk, Fund-raising event

A turnout to be proud of in support of @CRY_UK

Before the off : the unofficial photo of Team Tom VII that didn’t quite fit everyone in!

Tom would have been amazed – and more than a little humbled – by the large numbers joining Team Tom VII for CRY’s eighth London Bridges Walk today. We certainly were.

Nearly 50 people joined us to walk in memory of Tom and in support of CRY. To get such a turnout seven years after we first walked is inspiring.

It was particularly moving to hear some of the memories of Tom recounted by his friends.

If you took any pictures and would like to share them with us, please do. We’d be happy to publish them along with those below, many of which were taken by David Bentley.

Overall, more than 950 people had registered for the walk by the beginning of the week and it looks as though for the second year in a row the final total will be more than a thousand.

A special thanks, therefore, to Rebecca Zouvani and the team at CRY who plan a walk that has become bigger with each successive year. They cope with a myriad of complex and changing challenges while managing to ensure that the event stays sharply focussed on Tom and all those like him.

Perhaps one day we won’t be writing about the 12 young people that we lose every week to undiagnosed heart conditions. Perhaps then we’ll simply walk in memory of those we have lost. But until that day, to all of you who have just given up your Sunday to walk or who have supported us or Tom’s Fund over the past year, thank you. CRY needs you.