Staff and students at Lancaster & Morecambe College are raising funds for CRY in memory of Sam Dodd, a Sports student at LMC. They will be cycling the distance between the College and Dortmund football stadium - 637 miles - as Sam was a huge fan of the team.

"On July 18th last year our life changed forever when we lost Sam to Sudden Arythmic Death Syndrome (SADS) Sam was only 18 years old with his whole life and dreams infont of him. He was a fit and healthy teenager that we all loved. Nothing could have ever prepared us for this.

Sam was kind-hearted and would do anything for anyone. He had a great sense of humour which was sometimes somewhat inappropriate, but that was Sam being Sam..He would come out with things on purpose to make us laugh at the most inappropriate times and succeeded most of the time. Sam was always the joker or clown of the family which no-one can ever come close to.

Sam was a sensitive lad and loved to give you hugs. He would cross the road infront of his mates to come and give you one of his infamous hugs which is something most teenage lads would never do.

He taught himself to play the guitar via You Tube and had people in awe of him when he played at the wheatsheaf where he worked. We all miss the guitar rifts coming from his bedroom whilst he practiced.

He worked at the Wheatsheaf in Garstang which he loved. All the staff looked forward to their shift if Sam was on caus no-one knew what to expect from him caus he just made everyone laugh and smile with his silly jokes and tales of what he'd got up to during the week." Paul Dodd

Every week in the UK at least 12 apparently fit and healthy young people die of undiagnosed cardiac conditions.

With your donation, CRY can reduce the frequency of young sudden cardiac death (YSCD) by working with cardiologists and family doctors to establish good practice and appropriate screening facilities to promote and protect the cardiac health of our young.