Pop up shop to fund heart screening in Oswestry
A pop-up charity shop to raise money to help save children from dying from undiagnosed heart defects will be held in Oswestry on Saturday.
The Buy for Cry event will raise vital funds for the Cardiac Risk in the Young charity.
Doors will open on the pop-up shop in the town's Memorial hall at 10am and the event will run until 2.30pm.
Proceeds from the day will go towards providing 200 free heart screening places at the Marches School, Oswestry, in June.
The event has been set up by Sue Dewhirst and friends in memory of Sue's son, Matthew.
The 17-year-old collapsed and died at a fitness training summer camp at Ellesmere College in 2012. He was a talented sportsman and musician.
He died from SADs Sudden Arrhythmic Death Syndrome.
Matthew's parents set up the ‘CRY for Matthew’ fundraising appeal because currently in the UK over 12 young people a week die from undiagnosed heart defects.
"The specialist screening that is offered costs £50 per person, but this is a fraction of the true cost of the service and we know, that by offering this screening, reduces the risks of Young Sudden Cardiac Death by 90 per cent," Mrs Dewhirst said.
Buy for Cry has received a host of new and nearly new men, women and children's clothing, scarves, shoes, jewellery and bric-a-brac.
