Posted by PaulClabburn on Jul 18, 2014 in 2014, Awareness, CRY screenings, Donations
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.
Posted by PaulClabburn on Jul 14, 2014 in 2014, Donations
to Jonathan, Bev, Ron and Lorraine, Alison, Sonja and Richard #12aweek
Posted by PaulClabburn on Jul 11, 2014 in 2014, Awareness, CRY London Bridges Walk, Fund-raising event
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.
Posted by PaulClabburn on Jul 6, 2014 in 2014, Awareness, CRY London Bridges Walk, Fund-raising event
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.
Posted by PaulClabburn on Jul 5, 2014 in 2014, Awareness, Cardiac Risk in the Young
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
Posted by PaulClabburn on Jul 3, 2014 in 2014, Awareness, CRY London Bridges Walk, Fund-raising event
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.
Posted by PaulClabburn on Jun 28, 2014 in 2014, Awareness, Book sale, Claire Prosser, Ealing, Fund-raising event
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.
Posted by PaulClabburn on Jun 27, 2014 in 2014, Awareness, CRY London Bridges Walk
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.
