Team Tom VII walked London’s Bridges for CRY.
CRY have added loads of pictures from the Bridges Walk on to their Flickr account – including the official team photo and many “action” shots of Team Tom walkers.
Thanks again to all who took part – you will probably be able to see yourself somewhere here.
Before the off : the unofficial photo of Team Tom VII that didn’t quite fit everyone in!
Tom would have been amazed – and more than a little humbled – by the large numbers joining Team Tom VII for CRY’s eighth London Bridges Walk today. We certainly were.
Nearly 50 people joined us to walk in memory of Tom and in support of CRY. To get such a turnout seven years after we first walked is inspiring.
It was particularly moving to hear some of the memories of Tom recounted by his friends.
If you took any pictures and would like to share them with us, please do. We’d be happy to publish them along with those below, many of which were taken by David Bentley.
Overall, more than 950 people had registered for the walk by the beginning of the week and it looks as though for the second year in a row the final total will be more than a thousand.
A special thanks, therefore, to Rebecca Zouvani and the team at CRY who plan a walk that has become bigger with each successive year. They cope with a myriad of complex and changing challenges while managing to ensure that the event stays sharply focussed on Tom and all those like him.
Perhaps one day we won’t be writing about the 12 young people that we lose every week to undiagnosed heart conditions. Perhaps then we’ll simply walk in memory of those we have lost. But until that day, to all of you who have just given up your Sunday to walk or who have supported us or Tom’s Fund over the past year, thank you. CRY needs you.
Before the off: Megan, Timur, Ed, John, Aaron
En route: Ellen, Alex, Lisa, Jamie.
En route: Thanks to all the CRY stewards who did a sterling job – however grim the location!
End of the road: Tim, Barbel, Paul, Andy, Claire, Sue, Chris and Dave
End of the road: Walkers listening to entertainment by Rock Choir.
CRY’s new website
CRY have relaunched their website at http://www.c-r-y.org.uk/ and it features a few familiar, if younger looking, faces.
The charity says it is still a work in progress but it already features a section on Memorial Funds and you can see Tom’s page here http://www.c-r-y.org.uk/memorial-funds
Ellen sports her personalised Bridges Walk T-shirt
Join Cardiac Risk in the Young on Sunday morning for its eighth annual London Bridges Walk.
It’s not too late to register – you can do so on the day. For details click here.
You also don’t need to raise sponsorship. Great if you can but it’s as much about raising awareness.
So come along on Sunday to remember Tom and all those like him and to get CRY’s message across – #12aweek is 12 too many.
Sue Howells, Claire Prosser and Chris Pearson brave the rain.
Claire’s pop-up book sale raised a further £168 for CRY on Saturday – despite the torrential rain.
“I was surprised but really pleased by how much we raised,” said Claire. “I’m also very grateful to all those who bought books and especially to Sue and Chris for helping.”
The money adds to the £870 raised by Claire’s main book sale in May – which also had to contend with wet weather – and means that the two events have raised a grand total of £1038.
The sales take place outside Munson’s Coffee, St Mary’s Road. Ealing. All unsold books are donated to Oxfam in Ealing so nothing goes to waste.
Walk the walk, wear the T-shirt! Sign up for Cardiac Risk in the Young’s eighth annual London Bridges Walk on Sunday 6th July by clicking here.
The route includes great views of at least 12 of London’s famous landmarks, representing the 12 young sudden cardiac deaths that occur each week in the UK.
That’s 12 too many. The vast majority of young people aged 14-35 who die could have been diagnosed and treated by screening.
Please help to get the message across by signing up for the walk.
“Team Tom” walkers relax at the end of a Bridges Walk.
Come and join us on CRY’s 2014 London Bridge’s walk. It’s a pleasant morning’s stroll and it raises shed loads of awareness.
Click here to register.
Last year more than 1,000 people walked. Make it even more this year. Walk for CRY on Sunday, July 6.
Unbowed under-cover: from left to right, Claire with helpers Rob Sanders, Jo Tucker, Martin Hale, Andy Howells, Elin Hale, Chris Tucker and Sue Howells.
With six months to go in Tom’s Fund’s attempt to raise £100,000 to provide more free heart screenings for young people, we are closing in on our target.
After all the brilliant recent support, we are now into the ‘teens’ and need around £19,000 to make the £100k that we’d love to mark the year during which Tom would have been 21.
For my part, rain failed to dampen our spirits – as we used to write in my old newspaper days – when we held our most recent book sale.
With the help of a gazebo belonging to Rob and Caro Sanders and lots of volunteers we managed to raise £870 at the event outside Munsons cafe in South Ealing.
A generous donation from Munsons took us over the £80,000 mark – all of which will go towards CRY’s heart screenings and research.
So hugest thanks once again to Mario and the baristas, customers and helpers who made it such a successful day.
