All 100 places at the Tom’s Fund Ealing free heart screenings for those aged 14-35 on November 9 are now fully booked.
We plan to hold further free screenings with CRY in Ealing in Spring and Autumn 2015.
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Free heart screenings sponsored by Tom’s Fund for young people aged 14-35 can now be booked online at http://www.testmyheart.org/
This year’s screenings will be held on Sunday, November 9, and once again we must thank the Florence Road surgery in Florence Road, Ealing, for hosting the event.
If you have any queries, please do not ring the surgery but contact CRY on 01737 363222 (10am – 5pm Monday to Friday excluding Bank Holidays) or by emailing cry@c-r-y.org.uk
Tom’s Fund has supported screenings, mainly in west London, every year since 2009. More than 1,000 young people have been screened. We are, as ever, incredibly grateful to all those who have supported us by fund-raising. Without their efforts, these screenings would not take place.
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Tom’s Fund has sponsored free @CRY_UK heart screenings for young people every year since 2009.
In that time more than 1,000 young people have been screened, around 800 of them in and around Ealing. Although the majority will walk away reassured, others will need medical intervention.
It currently costs the Fund £3,500 in sponsorship to host a free screening day for 100 people.
Year on year, friends, family and supporters, generally local people, have supported us with fund-raising and donations.
That effort has enabled Tom’s Fund to raise more than £80,000 since 2008. It’s on its way to its target of raising £100,000 by November 27, 2014, what would have been the end of Tom’s 21st birthday year.
If there are any Ealing businesses or organisations that would like to partner us and help to support future screenings we’d be glad to hear from you at thetomclabburnfund@gmail.com or via the message form here.
You can read more about Tom’s Fund on this site or on the Tom Clabburn Memorial Fund’s Cardiac Risk in the Young page here.
We have screenings organised for November 2014 and April 2015 in Ealing. We expect that, as usual, they will be oversubscribed.
Nationally, 12 young people a week aged 14-35 die of undiagnosed heart conditions. Tom was one of them. He was 14.
Screening works. It can save lives. Please help if you can.
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Left-to-right: Sandown Bay Academy students with Claire, Helen and CRY screening manager Tony Hill
More than 200 young people were screened during CRY’s first free heart screenings on the Isle of Wight – thanks in part to Tom’s Fund.
Around 15 of the 210 youngsters screened at the Sandown Bay Academy in Sandown were referred for further tests.
Tom’s Fund and the school shared the cost of the two days on January 28 and 29 and the whole event was organised with the utmost efficiency by Helen Barnes – who is the school’s senior administrator and also Claire’s cousin.
Helen has been fund-raising for CRY and going on the CRY Bridges Walk since Tom’s death.
She said she felt that as a school with an excellent sporting reputation, Sandown would be an ideal venue for a screening event as many of the students take part in physical activity.
Many teenagers looked nervous as they came in but were reassured by CRY’s professional mobile medical team and the word soon spread through the school that there was nothing to be concerned about.
Student Matthew Miselbach, 16, said: “As a keen sportsman I wanted to have the test for peace of mind. I thought it was important to be tested especially as many of the people who die of previously undetected heart problems are usually fit and active. I would encourage as many people as possible to have the test if they get the opportunity.”
CRY Family Screening Manager Tony Hill said: “The Sandown Bay Academy students were very polite, courteous and extremely well behaved. The team were made very welcome and were pleased to have screened so many lovely students.”
Also at the screenings was Andrew Quew, a neighbour of Helen’s, who lost his wife to an undiagnosed heart condition in 2011. He is also fund-raising for CRY and hopes to set up the next set of screenings on the Isle of Wight. We wish him lots of luck in his efforts.
Read MoreYou can read about the screenings organised by Helen Barnes and part-funded by Tom’s Fund by clicking here
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Helen Barnes
Tom’s Fund will be going further afield – and all for a very good cause.
CRY screenings are going to be held for the first time on the Isle of Wight and they will part-funded by Tom’s Fund.
The driving force behind the idea is Claire’s cousin, Helen Barnes, who lives in Ryde. She has been fund-raising for Tom’s Fund ever since Tom died, selling books at the school where she works, the Sandown Bay Academy, and coming on the Bridges Walk.
She suggested running screenings at the school for its students and so the school are funding a day and we are funding the other. Some 200 young people will be screened at the Academy on Jan 28-29.
We will also be holding our usual screenings in Ealing later this year.
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