A game of cat and mouse

What a day today was! We spent the morning at Port Lympne Wild Animal Park which was set up by the late John Aspinall with the aim of protecting and breeding rare and endangered species and returning them to safe areas in their native homeland. We met both tigers and lions and despite them all being bigger and a lot stronger than the mouse, we held our nerve! We then travelled north to visit Charles Storer, the co-founder of Hope and Aid Direct, a humanitarian aid charity whose team members raise their own funds, obtain donations of aid, transport that aid in convoys of lorries twice a year, and give it out directly into the hands of the people who need it the most. We had our photos taken with Charles at his home in Ingatestone to publicise both Everyclick and Hope and Aid Direct.

Maisie and the Mouse

Travelling down to the South Coast we had a fantastic morning on the pier with Maisie also known as David Raven who is one of Sussex Beacon’s patrons and long-term supporters.  We also met the guys who are going to take part in a skydive to raise money for Sussex Beacon, in October when about 25 people will be jumping from 10,000 ft.  We had our photos taken on the pier, and on the beach before heading to their shop which is being renovated where we had another photo shoot.  After lunch we made our way back down to the pier where we handed out more leaflets, spreading the Everyclick word.

Mice like Toast

After a horribly traffic filled journey down to Essex we arrived at the Hervey Shopping Centre in Harlow where the mice met people from the charity ‘Toast’, which aims to raise the issues of obesity as a matter to be taken seriously. We then wandered round the shopping mall meeting loads of new people and ensuring that more and more people are being made aware of Everyclick and will be using it to help raise funds for charities such as Toast!

Break and boating

We started off today on the North Norfolk Coast, visiting people from the Rainbow House in Sheringham, who were all very pleased to see the big blue mouse! We then headed into town to visit their ‘Break’ charity shop and had photographs outside the shop and behind the tills with the volunteers. After lunch we drove down the coast, thankfully making it through the flooded country roads, to Lowestoft where we had a very entertaining afternoon sailing on the boats at Oulton broad, waving at passing boats and handing out literature.

Benjamin Foundation at Manor Road School

After our long journey back to Norfolk we started early, visiting a kids zone group, The Benjamin Foundation.  There we joined the children for some fun and games. Mice aren’t that good at table football, but we did enjoy the Giant Connect 4 – even more so when we won! We gave out balloons and stickers which went down well. The staff had run a drawing competition for the children - who could draw the best big blue mouse!  We were given the honour of chosing a winner – Natalie. To see her picture have a look below.  We then printed our hand on the wall so that they would always remember the big blue mouse!