The 2012 Ealing screenings were fully booked and more than 70 young people were screened at the Florence Road surgery in Ealing in November.
Pictured are sisters Sophie (left) and Leanne (right) Haliburn, daughters of Ealing Choral Society member Cynthia Haliburn, discussing their screening results with CRY’s Dr Abbas Zaidi.
Ealing Choral Society had raised many thousands of pounds for Tom’s Fund when they held a charity Christmas Carol Concert in 2011.
Tom’s Fund concentrates on screenings in west London but, following the collapse of Fabrice Muamba on the pitch during a televised match at White Hart Lane, the opportunity arose to work with the Tottenham Hotspur Foundation.
The Foundation runs health projects in the area and helped to promote CRY’s screenings for young people at the club in May 2012.
Paul’s report on the event can be read at http://www.c-r-y.org.uk/tottenham_screening_may2012.htm
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Thanks to Dr David Evans and his team, the screenings were held at the Florence Road Surgery in Ealing for the first time.
Our second year of free heart screenings for young people was part of CRY’s second national Test My Heart tour. Waitrose in West Ealing was kind enough to host the event over three days in November.
The first free heart screenings for young people sponsored by Tom’s Fund were held over three days at Brentford Football Club in June 2009. After fund-raising for more than a year, around 300 people were tested as part of CRY’s first national screening tour.
Brentford’s then manager, Andy Scott, a CRY patron, supported the event. He was forced to stop playing football when diagnosed with a heart condition.
The event was covered by BBC Radio One’s Newbeat – read the full story at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8125842.stm and at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8125612.stm
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