Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY)

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Help CRY by donating today. Your donation could save a young life!

Support CRY

Help CRY by donating today. Your donation could save a young life!

Support

Following a young sudden cardiac death CRY offers help to families through our bereavement support programme, as well as helping families to understand what caused the death and to be referred to inherited cardiac conditions specialists.

Awareness

CRY raises awareness to help prevent young sudden cardiac deaths (YSCD), through awareness campaigns, fundraising events, and media outreach. CRY works to save young lives and prevent avoidable tragedies.

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Screening

CRY wants All young people to have the opportunity to have heart screening. 1 in 300 people CRY tests will have a potentially life threatening heart condition which will benefit from lifestyle advice, treatment and sometimes corrective surgery.

Research

CRY is funding world leading research which is transforming our understanding of the causes and prevention of Young Sudden Cardiac Death as well as the treatment of those at risk.

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Thomas Shackleton's Story

Thomas Shackleton died on the 19th May 2004, aged 21. Thomas was a great musician who played the guitar and could make a tune on any instrument. This was one of his songs (click to listen) that we played at his funeral – and on his gravestone we have a guitar engraved into the marble with…

Amy Jayne Russell's Story

Our only daughter Amy Jayne Russell was born 7th January 1984. Throughout her life she was fit and healthy with no unusual illnesses nor signs of one. When she was 20 years old she trained with a tour operator to be a 'kiddie rep' for them because she loved children. She left Manchester on 12th March…

Junior's Story

I feel robbed, my son was the most loving soul he’d light up every room he entered and he left an impression on everyone he met. He died 3 weeks short of his 14th birthday, he will forever be 13. 5,094 days that’s all I had with my son not nearly enough now I have to spend a lifetime waiting to see him again….

Robert O’Kane's Story

A year has gone by since our son Robert passed away, a long heartbreaking emotional year for myself, my husband and our two remaining sons. Robert was our middle son, he had a sunny disposition was always full of laughter – fun-loving and friendly to everyone he met. Robert loved music, it makes me smile when…

Lisa Shepherd's Story

My name is Michael Shepherd and I'm 53 years old. I live with my wife Janice, 51, and son Liam, 23, in Bolsover – a small town 6 miles from Chesterfield in Derbyshire. All was well in our lives until the horror, which came on Friday 19th May 2006. Our daughter Lisa, 23, a staff nurse…

Mark Phelps's Story

Mark was 25 when he died on the 18th November 2002. At the time I (his brother Matthew) was working away and received a call from my mother just after 6.30 to say he had died. For me it was the most surreal phone call I have ever received and I hurriedly got to Euston station…

Leon John Mansell's Story

“Love you mom.” A phrase taken for granted by many, but for this mom a saying that will stay with her forever. Said by her youngest son aged just 14, for what she never thought would be the last time, his last words said to her, his last ever words. This is the story of the…

Alex Simpson's Story

On 13th January 2011, our lives were changed forever. My lovely son Alex passed away. Alex was 3 weeks off his nineteenth birthday. He was a typical teenage lad, liked nights out with his friends and spent a lot of time with his girlfriend of almost 3 years, Jodie. He had been to work that day…

Hannah Taylor's Story

Maureen wanted something said for our granddaughter Hannah and, difficult though it is for me at this time, I know that I want to be the mouthpiece of both of our thoughts. Where to begin but at the beginning. It seems as though Hannah has fought against the odds all of her life. When she was…

Pete Hinchliffe's Story

I would like to tell you about my brother Pete. Pete was 33 when he died on the 11th of September 2010. Pete died at the roadside after getting off his bike, presumably as he felt unwell. A couple of bystanders started CPR and called for an Ambulance. His good friend Danny, who he was going…

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Cardiac Screening

CRY offers subsidised ECG and Echocardiogram screening to all young people between the ages of 14 & 35. There is a simple way to diagnose most cardiac abnormalities. This is by having an ECG (electrocardiogram) test. Results should be read by a cardiologist. For extra clarity an Echocardiogram (ultrasound scan) can also be done.If there has been a young (under 35) sudden death in the family, the family is entitled to be screened on the NHS. All of CRY’s public events are free to attend.

Latest News

Funds raised by CRY Representatives, Ian and Elaine Ward in memory of their son Neil, have now led to more than 3,000 young, local people ha

More than 3,000 young people have now been screened as a direct result of their fundraising. The 3,000th young person to benefit from these vital...

Professor Mary Sheppard honoured with the prestigious BCS Mackenzie Medal

Professor Mary Sheppard “I was delighted to accept this award as it recognises the importance of specialist cardiac pathology in determining the cause of sudden...

Outcomes of a nationwide cardiac screening programme - with a focus on young females

Exciting new research presented at the annual conference of the British Cardiovascular Society (BCS): 1 - 3 June 2026 According to a new, CRY-funded study...

CRY’s Parliamentary Affairs activity during the first half of 2026

On Monday June 8, the long awaited, 3-month public consultation into the UK National Screening Committee’s review of cardiac screening was officially opened. It therefore...

CRY responds to the National Screening Committee opening the public consultation on screening for cardiac conditions associated with sudden

Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY) notes the opening of the National Screening Committee’s (NSC) public consultation following its review of the proposal for a...

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Thomas Shackleton's Story

Amy Jayne Russell's Story

Junior's Story

Robert O’Kane's Story

Lisa Shepherd's Story

Mark Phelps's Story

Leon John Mansell's Story

Alex Simpson's Story

Hannah Taylor's Story

Pete Hinchliffe's Story

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Cardiac Screening

Latest News

Funds raised by CRY Representatives, Ian and Elaine Ward in memory of their son Neil, have now led to more than 3,000 young, local people ha

Professor Mary Sheppard honoured with the prestigious BCS Mackenzie Medal

Outcomes of a nationwide cardiac screening programme - with a focus on young females

CRY’s Parliamentary Affairs activity during the first half of 2026

CRY responds to the National Screening Committee opening the public consultation on screening for cardiac conditions associated with sudden

Honoured for services to charity: longstanding CRY supporter, Charlotte Luckett BEM

CRY Update Magazine Issue 98

Largest-Ever Study of Cardiac Screening in Young People Shows Heart Checks Save Lives

AI Cardiac Screening and Research Project

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Research News

Professor Mary Sheppard honoured with the prestigious BCS Mackenzie Medal

Outcomes of a nationwide cardiac screening programme – with a focus on young females

Largest-Ever Study of Cardiac Screening in Young People Shows Heart Checks Save Lives

AI Cardiac Screening and Research Project

01737 363222

[email protected]