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Every week in the UK 12 young people die suddenly from an undiagnosed heart condition. On 12th February 2012 our 15-year-old son Jack Thomas became one of those 12 young people.

Jack was a fit and healthy boy who had represented Wales all across Europe on a number of occasions in Taekwondo. Jack was an A* student and had been successful in gaining a scholarship at Cardiff Sixth Form College. Jack’s death came as a complete shock to us, as Jack had never been ill. To this day we still have had no answers to why our precious boy fell asleep.

Since Jack’s death we have set up a memorial fund in his name within Cardiac Risk in the young (C.R.Y). All money raised in Jack’s memory will go towards paying for an annual heart-screening programme in the South Wales Valleys. This project is very successful and the first screening programme took place on the 6th June 2014 at Oakdale Comprehensive, which would have been Jack’s 18th Birthday. 

All our local leisure centres have been provided with a defibrillator, but not our local schools. It is because of this I have set up Jack’s Appeal, which has been backed by The South Wales Argus and Welsh Hearts. The aim of Jack’s Appeal is to provided all Comprehensive Schools in Wales starting with those in Gwent and the Rhymney Valley with defibrillators. So Far we have provided 11 comprehensive schools with a defibrillator. 

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