Last week I visited five West Midlands Academies to collect even more bears and cuddly toys for our second delivery to Ukraine. Over 500 were donated and they will make their journey to displaced Ukrainian children in the coming months. We are determined to keep delivering essential items and everyone's good wishes. All additions to our funds will be put to good use and very gratefully received. Thanks again, Mark and Lee Below are some of the wonderful children from St Thomas's Academy in Wolverhampton.

So, after another short technical delay, we have loaded up with the essential supplies and 600+ cuddly toys that were donated by the children at East Park and Hateley Heath. Lee is finally leaving for Poland in the morning and we are truly very grateful for your support. This is only the start, so please keep spreading the word. We will update with more images and videos over the coming days!

So firstly, a quick apology. We had originally wanted to depart today, but unfortunately we could not get all the elements together in time and so our revised departure date is now Sunday 15th May 2022. However, we are making great progress and our first two trips to the West Midlands Academies of East Park in Wolverhampton and Hateley Heath in West Bromwich gave us plenty of support and hundreds of cuddly toys from their amazing pupils. 'Thank you' to everyone for making it a very special day for Lee and myself!