Great West Way Travel Magazine
THE WAY FORWARD
A look at some of the highlights and what's new since lockdown restrictions were lifted on the Great West Way
Highlights for autumn/winter and a look at what's new on the Great West Way
8-YEAR-OLD FUNDRAISING ZEBRA-LOVER, POLLY RAISES ALMOST £11K FOR NOAH'S ARK ZOO FARM'S ANIMAL SUPPORT FUND
It costs £8000 a month just to feed the hundreds of animals at the zoo, and Polly Robertson, 8, wanted to help the zebra's after she received a birthday letter from the zebra with the same name. Polly, the Zebra sent Polly, the human, a birthday letter, when she heard that the little girl was unable to visit due to lockdown.
This prompted Polly to decide to walk 64 miles (a mile a day) during lockdown to ‘walk the distance' from her house to raise £100 for Noah's Ark Zoo Farm's Animal Support Fund. Polly, who was a guest on BBC Radio 2's Jeremy Vine show, spoke to the radio host about how she wanted to raise money to help feed the animals at Noah's Ark. After her appearance on the show, her JustGiving page amount shot up to almost £11k, meaning that Polly had helped the zoo feed the animals for a whole month!
Stonehenge Skyscape is a new virtual experience of the skies above the iconic stone circle. With the help of Skyscape, a website showing a live view, you can explore how Stonehenge related to the skies and what these celestial bodies might have meant to Neolithic people, learn about movements of the sun, moon and planets - experience a live sunrise over Stonehenge, and see the journey of the stars and the moon from within the stone circle.