All proceeds from David’s
Memorial Race go to Cardiac Risk
in the Young, a charity whose main aims are to raise awareness
of Cardiac conditions in young people, to introduce a national
screening programme (6 of which have been held in Darwen and have
screened over 250 local young people between the ages of 14 – 32),
to counsel and support the families affected by tragedies of this
nature and to donate medical equipment to doctor’s surgeries.
The race is run in memory of David Staff, who joined the Dashers as
a 15 year old and competed in many fun runs as a junior. In
September 1994, he completed the Great North Run in 1 hour 49
minutes 02 seconds along-side his dad Granville wearing his
Blackburn Rovers home and away kit, needless to say the comments
along the route in Newcastle cannot be repeated.
David was a very likeable person who got on
with everybody he came into contact with; young and old and had a
very bright future ahead of him, not only as a young man preparing
to take his A-levels at Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School but also as
a member of Darwen Dashers.