Posted by PaulClabburn on Apr 24, 2017 in 2017, Awareness, Cardiac Risk in the Young, Fund-raising event
Don’t look down! Hannah gets set.
Claire’s cousin Hannah Dunn successfully abseiled down the 170 metre Spinnaker Tower in Portsmouth on Saturday, April 22, to raise money for Tom and Claire’s Fund.
Hannah said: “Well, I did it! The most terrifying experience was when going over the edge but once on the way it was fantastic.”
Her effort raised a total of £1406 which will be split between Tom and Claire’s Fund and St. Barnabas House hospice in Worthing.
Hannah, who says she is an ‘adrenaline junky’ after jumping from 13,000 feet over Salisbury Plain to raise money for CRY in her first skydive in 2015, says she’s now planning what challenge to take on next.
If you want to support Hannah, you can still do so here.
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Posted by PaulClabburn on Apr 18, 2017 in 2017, Fund-raising event
Spinnaker Town, Portsmouth. Author: Rhys Jones. Licensed by Creative Commons.
Not content with flinging herself from planes, Claire’s cousin Hannah Dunn is now planning to abseil down the 170 metre Spinnaker Tower in Portsmouth on Saturday, April 22.
She’ll be raising money for Tom and Claire’s Fund and St. Barnabas House hospice in Worthing.
Hannah, who says she is now officially an ‘adrenaline junky’, jumped from 13,000 feet over Salisbury Plain to raise money for CRY in her first skydive in 2015.
If you want to support Hannah in her latest escapade, you can do so here.
Posted by PaulClabburn on Apr 7, 2017 in 2017, Cardiac Risk in the Young, CRY screenings, Ealing
Ellen with members of the CRY team; left to right, Ralph Knox, Sheila Pitt, Dr Gemma Parry-Williams, Hannah Lowry and Muge Pancar.
Ninety young people aged between 14-35 were screened by Cardiac Risk in the Young at Drayton Manor High School, Hanwell, on April 6.
Both Tom and Ellen attended Drayton Manor, which was hosting screenings for the second time. Of those tested, six were referred for further investigation.
Ellen Clabburn said: “We’d like to thank CRY for carrying out the screenings with their usual professionalism, Drayton Manor High School for providing the facilities and, of course, all those who have raised the funds which mean the screenings can take place and be free to those attending.”
The next screenings sponsored by Tom and Claire’s Fund are planned for November in Ealing.
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Posted by PaulClabburn on Mar 27, 2017 in 2017, Awareness, Cardiac Risk in the Young, CRY screenings
Our latest free heart screenings for young people aged between 14-35 are now fully booked.
The screenings are taking place on Thursday, April 6, at Drayton Manor High School, Drayton Bridge Road, London, W7 1EU.
If you have booked, please make every effort to attend. If you can’t attend for any reason, please let CRY know.
If you have any queries, please contact CRY rather than the school or us. Contact details for CRY are here.
Posted by PaulClabburn on Mar 20, 2017 in 2017, Cardiac Risk in the Young, CRY screenings, Ealing, Tom Clabburn
There are 10 or fewer places left to book for our latest free heart screenings for young people aged between 14-35. The screenings are taking place on Thursday, April 6, at Drayton Manor High School, Drayton Bridge Road, London, W7 1EU.
You can book a screening by going here.
If you do book, please make every effort to attend. If you can’t attend for any reason, please let CRY know.
If you have any queries, please contact CRY rather than the school or us. Contact details for CRY are here.
Posted by PaulClabburn on Mar 3, 2017 in 2017, Cardiac Risk in the Young, CRY screenings, Ealing
Echocardiogram machine bought with money raised by Tom and Claire’s Fund.
Our latest free heart screenings for young people aged between 14-35 will take place on Thursday, April 6, at Drayton Manor High School, Drayton Bridge Road, London, W7 1EU.
You can book a CRY screening by going here .
If you do book, please make every effort to attend. If you can’t attend for any reason, please let CRY know. Our screenings have always been over-subscribed. If you can’t get there, somebody else can.
If you have any queries, please contact CRY rather than the school or us. Contact details for CRY are here.
We are extremely grateful to Drayton Manor High School, Tom and Ellen’s old school, for hosting the event.
To date more than 2,400 young people have been screened at events sponsored by Tom and Claire’s Fund. So to all of you who have raised the money which allows the screenings to take place, thank you. You have saved lives.
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Posted by PaulClabburn on Jan 3, 2017 in 2017, Cardiac Risk in the Young, Tom Clabburn
This year will mark the 10th anniversary of Tom’s death. It’s a decade in which so many have campaigned and fund-raised in his memory for Cardiac Risk in the Young.
So this, of course, is to ask you not to stop. Why? Because by the time October’s anniversary comes around, we will have lost 6,000 or more young people aged between 14-35 since that day in 2007. How many could have been saved by a national heart screening programme? The vast majority.
Yet nothing looks likely to change in the short-term. The UK National Screening Committee, which advises the Government, isn’t due until 2018/2019 to review its advice – which is currently not to recommend a screening programme. That means you can add another 600-1200 young deaths to the total before there’s even a chance that things might change.
It’s a frustrating situation. We know that CRY’s research is rooted in the more than 100,000 screenings it has carried out. We know that its screening programme is led by an internationally acknowledged expert, in Professor Sanjay Sharma. We know from the evidence of Tom and Claire’s Fund screenings that cardiac testing can help to identify those who need further medical intervention (evidence which is also reflected at countless CRY family screenings throughout the UK and at CRY’s national screening centre).
None of that seems to be enough.
We, therefore, begin a new year with an old plea: there are loads of good causes out there but please consider supporting Tom and Claire’s Fund and CRY. We’re holding two more screening days in Ealing in Spring and Autumn, 2017, and it’s only through your commitment that such events can take place.
Wishing everyone a peaceful and healthy new year.
Paul and Ellen x
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Posted by PaulClabburn on Dec 5, 2016 in 2016, BBC, Book sale, Cardiac Risk in the Young, Claire Prosser, Fund-raising event, Tom Clabburn
Left to right, Mariita, Ruth, Jacky and Anne Marie.
A book sale at the BBC’s New Broadcasting House headquarters raised £650 for Tom and Claire’s Fund and CRY.
The event, on Thursday, December 1, the second anniversary of Claire’s death, was organised by her friend and colleague Ruth Akins-Arulanandam.
“We had a wonderful contribution of books from 5Live (Jessica Latimer) and we also had an unexpected top up of from the Victoria Derbyshire show (Monica Soriano),” said Ruth.
“The lovely Lorna Donlon bought in some gorgeous chocolate cakes which were sold within the hour.
“The book sale wouldn’t have happened without Gillian Dear who organised the space and helped collect the books in the lead-up to the event. On the day we had Suzanne Yates, Jacky Hems, Mariita Eager, Anne Marie Ballantyne, Madeline Ferguson, Dhruti Shah and Smitha Mundasad helping to sell as much as they could in aid of CRY.
“It was a day tinged with sadness as it has been two years since the passing of our dear friend Claire. This made us all the more determined to raise as many funds as we could in memory of Claire and Tom.
“It was lovely to spend the day with Claire’s friends and former colleagues, remembering her; she is missed by so many people. The sale came to a wonderful end when we realised how much we had raised in aid of CRY.
“Suzanne Yates also took the opportunity to take the remaining books to Oxfam on Marylebone high street, something Claire used to do herself at the end of a book sale.”
Ellen Clabburn said: “We really appreciate the effort made by Ruth and all those who helped. It was a lovely thing to do as Mum specialised in book sales for CRY. They are such a good way to raise both funds and awareness.”
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