Steve Brine attended the event, along with the charity's new Patron, teen singing sensation, Pixie Lott, who has joined the charity's ongoing crusade to highlight the importance of screening young people – especially those who regularly take part in sport.
Pixie, who was one of the few stars ever to sing live inside the historic building, said: "I've become a patron of CRY as it affects so many young people and it's crazy that a seemingly fit and young person can just drop down dead. I feel it's important to raise awareness and will be using my new role to spread the word to young people."
Mr Brine said: "Every day at least one family in the UK will suffer the trauma of losing a young person to an undiagnosed heart condition. I was delighted to support the event today, and I'm really pleased that Pixie has become Patron and helped to highlight this issue to young people. She was absolutely lovely, I really enjoyed meeting her."
CRY was first launched in 1995 by Alison Cox MBE following the shock news that her youngest son, Steve, had been diagnosed with a potentially fatal heart condition. At the time, Steve, now 36 and the same age as Mr Brine, had been training at an exclusive tennis academy in the States, but his diagnosis following a routine screening was the end of his professional career.
Fifteen years on, the charity has developed a nationwide network of screening initiatives for young people aged 14-35. Last year alone, the charity identified at least 14 young people who were literally walking around with a ticking time-bomb. All have now been successfully treated.
Alison Cox said: "80% of young people have no signs or symptoms and so the only way to detect a potentially sinister cardiac abnormality is by having a simple screening test.
"These are treatable conditions and, if diagnosed in time and with appropriate treatment, lives are saved. These apparently fit and healthy young people, with their whole lives ahead of them are dying needlessly and their legacy of terrible suffering for those that love them is truly unbearable and has not been properly recognised.
"We have dedicated the past 15 years to developing a highly subsidised screening service that identifies problems with a simple, non-invasive test. We have worked with MPs, Government departments and international experts to get this right and a key goal of CRY is to keep fighting to make our cardiac screening programme increasingly have accessible to young people.
"We are delighted that Steve was able to join us at this special event and pledge his support to the work we do and our ongoing mission of reducing the number of deaths from these devastating conditions."
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Access CRY's specialist service by logging onto www.c-r-y.org.uk or visit www.testmyheart.org.uk