After fees, £304.17 has landed in our bank account, so a huge THANK YOU to you lovely, lovely people who helped with our flight cage plea for help.

It's all gone very quiet for about a week now. We appreciate that if you're going to give, you'll do it at the very beginning of the campaign. The plea for help went in the local paper last week but they didn't include this web link so that won't have helped the 'spreading the word' situation. It was also pointed out that £325 is a huge amount of money (which it is) and we should be grateful, rather than pushing for £400 (which is true) but that little bit more could and would do so much for EBC, the critters and the wider audience.

So, the campaign is six days old and you have all been super generous to this point. We have three more weeks to go (time set by Just Giving, not us) and all the carers have decided that our ultimate target is four hundred squids. This would give us enough to kit out the flight cage and care shed with everything and there may even be some pennies left over for hob nobs, a glitter ball and spare bulbs for the special insect attracting light fittings. We're not going to change the target figure again, it is what it is, fingers crossed!

Oh my goodness you FABULOUS, lovely, amazingly generous, gorgeous people. £300 in three days. You are all just blinking brilliant. The campaign runs for thirty days, that's apparently what happens so we'll tweak the total so that people aren't put off giving. Anything over £300 will be put towards upgrading elements of the design, buying extra kit for the seasons ahead and absolutely, definitely, not at all in the slightest will it be used to try the new chocolate chip hob nobs that the human slaves have been told about.