CARDIAC RISK IN THE YOUNG

Registered charity 1050845 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as C R Y, CARDIC RISK IN THE YOUNG (CRY), CRY - CARDIAC RISK IN THE YOUNG · also registered in Scotland as SC052581 (OSCR)

CRY provides bereavement support to families affected by a young sudden cardiac death (YSCD/SADS) & supports young people with heart conditions. It raises awareness, runs a national heart screening programme to identify conditions such as cardiomyopathy, ARVC, Brugada, WPW, HCM, DCM & Long QT, & funds medical research, specialist NHS inherited cardiac services & expert cardiac pathology.

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income reached a record £5.04 million, with expenditure increasing to £4.36 million. Free reserves increased to £547,112, which is now above the Trustees' policy target of £350,000, providing greater financial resilience.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by BGM Helmores Ltd. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (FY2024) → 0 (FY2025).
• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2024) to "above" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03052985

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Cardiac Risk in the Young (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Dr Steven Cox — Chief Executive (source)
• Alison Cox — Founder (source)
• Michelle Scrogham — Chair of the APPG on Cardiac Risk in the Young (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• RUSSELL, Rachel Jane, Dr — director, appointed 09/10/2025on trustee list
• MEHTA, Atul Pushkar — director, appointed 09/12/2024on trustee list
• MILLER, Jonathan — director, appointed 09/12/2024on trustee list
• BROWN, James Alexander — director, appointed 14/12/2023on trustee list
• JONES, Nicholas Robert, Dr — director, appointed 13/01/2023on trustee list
• MAKAN, Jayesh, Dr — director, appointed 18/12/2018on trustee list
• QUARTERMAN, Paul Victor — director, appointed 13/12/2017on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/05/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.2 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (83% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 10.9% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (13/05/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (21/12/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (04/08/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (22/02/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Atul Pushkar Mehta
• Dr Jayesh Makan
• Dr Nicholas Robert Jones
• Dr Rachel Jane Russell
• James Brown
• Jonathan Miller
• Paul Quarterman

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SADS UK.

• SADS UK income £375k
• HEART 2 HEART NORFOLK income £144k
• THE CRYSALYS FOUNDATION income £256k
• CROHN'S IN CHILDHOOD RESEARCH ASSOCIATION income £295k
• ARRHYTHMIA ALLIANCE income £831k
• WESSEX CARDIAC TRUST income £1.2m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.