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Posted by on Oct 5, 2014 in 2014, Awareness, Tom Clabburn, Uncategorized

4,000 reasons to remember Tom

 

Tom's CRY poster

Tom died on October 5, 2007, from an undiagnosed heart condition. He was 14.

We miss him terribly every day.

Cardiac Risk in the Young’s statistics suggest that 12 young people die each week from undiagnosed heart conditions. These same figures imply that a further 4,300 or more young people aged 14-35 will have died since we lost Tom seven years ago.

Yet if cardiac screening had been available, the vast majority could have been diagnosed and gone on to live their lives*.

Cardiac screening works. It can save lives. We’re therefore hugely grateful to all those who have supported us and enabled us to sponsor free screenings.

The screenings are part of Tom’s legacy. So please continue to remember Tom and support CRY.  Thank you.

* To read more on CRY’s research statistics, please go to https://tomclabburnfund.co.uk/about-the-tom-clabburn-fund/

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

On the road

Helen Barnes

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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