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Posted by PaulClabburn on Apr 10, 2014 in 2014, Awareness, Fund-raising event

Double first for Christine and Jamie

Jamie Gavin at the finish.

Our two runners in the Greater Manchester marathon, Christine Elliott and Jamie Gavin, did us proud. Both got round in under four hours and raised £2,000 between them for Tom’s Fund and CRY.

Christine said of her first ever marathon: “The race was tough but I did enjoy it and was delighted to finish in under 4 hours. The support in Manchester was phenomenal and it had a great atmosphere. I was also really pleased to hit my fundraising target for CRY.”

It was also the first marathon for Jamie and he got round in 3 hours and 23 minutes.

He said: “It’s probably the hardest thing I’ve ever done – a great experience to look back on but the last eight miles hurt a lot. I hit a series of horrible walls and just had to tell myself to keep going. But I am really pleased to have got round in under three and a half hours and, more importantly, raised some money for Tom’s Fund and for CRY.”

Posted by PaulClabburn on Apr 3, 2014 in 2014, Awareness, Fund-raising event

Jamie’s marathon effort for @CRY_UK

Jamie Gavin

Jamie Gavin, another of our former BBC Colleagues, is taking part in the Greater Manchester marathon to raise money for Tom’s Fund – giving us two runners in the same event!

It will be a first marathon for Jamie, who works in BBC Sport, and he said: “It really is a privilege to be able to do something to help in whatever small way, and to run for Tom, and it will genuinely spur me on the whole way round.

“Hopefully whatever I raise will mean a few more people can benefit from free heart testing and by raising awareness for CRY perhaps even save a life.”

Jamie said that his training had been tough on his knees but the last few weeks of his programme had been the best so he was hoping all would go well on the day.

He added: “”Claire has been such a massive inspiration to me and hundreds of other young journalists and to run in memory of her son Tom – and to raise money and awareness for CRY – will help me through all 26.2 miles.”

Claire said: “I am sure Jamie is going to succeed as he is a very determined person. When he learnt he had a BBC interview he flew back from his trip of a lifetime to Australia where he was watching the Ashes. Luckily he got the job! We wish him lots of luck.”

You can support Jamie here:
https://original.justgiving.com/Jamie-Gavin1

Posted by PaulClabburn on Mar 31, 2014 in 2014, Awareness, Fund-raising event

Ready to take off for @CRY_UK

Ealing Eagle Christine Elliott has done a great job raising publicity for CRY – you can read about her marathon effort in the Ealing Gazette or online in Ealing Today here.

Posted by PaulClabburn on Mar 16, 2014 in 2014, Awareness, Fund-raising event

Scaling the heights

A fantastic effort by Chris Cockburn to reach the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro, raising more than £800 and a huge amount of awareness for Tom’s Fund and @CRY_UK

You can read how Chris braved altitude sickness to get to the top in this story in the Ealing Gazette: http://www.getwestlondon.co.uk/news/local-news/chris-scales-dizzy-heights-raise-6799430

Posted by PaulClabburn on Mar 7, 2014 in 2014, Awareness, Fund-raising event

A Bath Half laugh!

Louise and Ella

A brilliant effort by Ella Brown and Louise Kirk who sound as if they had a great time running the Bath half-marathon on March 2.

Huge thanks to them both and to everyone who supported them – they’ve raised a tremendous amount of awareness as well as funds.

Ella wrote: “Louise and I took on the mammoth task of running the Bath Half. 13.1 miles was a daunting task having never been regulars at the gym! It was a lot of fun, with a really great atmosphere on the day.

We’re so grateful for all the support we received from friends and family and have managed to raise over a thousand pounds, which was far above our original expectations.

Hopefully in running we managed to raise further awareness for a really fantastic charity and hope the money we have raised will help them continue their great work. We’ve definitely got the running bug now and are hoping to keep on running and raising money – and hopefully we’ve encouraged others to do the same!”

Their fundraising page is still open at http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/fundraiser-web/fundraiser/showFundraiserProfilePage.action?userUrl=louiseandellarunthebathhalf&isTeam=true

Posted by PaulClabburn on Jan 25, 2014 in 2014, Claire Prosser, CRY screenings, Fund-raising event, Uncategorized

On the road

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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