Kids enjoy Cambridge Park Easter egg hunt
AN EASTER fun day at Cambridge Park saw hundreds of adults and children getting out in the sunshine to enjoy an Easter egg hunt and a host of attractions.
Organised by the Dizzy Donkey charity, this was the first event of its kind, said founder Kizzy Glendinning.
The charity raises funds for Frossard Ward – the children’s ward at the Princess Elizabeth Hospital – and Miss Glendinning said that in its seven years it had donated arts and crafts materials, games and gifts for the young patients.
‘We just phone them and ask what they need,’ she said.
As with other charities, the pandemic had meant that it had not been able to stage any events for the past two years.
This one provided rides for children in the form of a merry-go-round and mini go-karts and a variety of small businesses had set up shop around the park, leaving a large open space in the middle.
‘We wanted people to be able to sit down and enjoy a picnic,’ said Ms Glendinning.
On top of this, 180 tickets had been sold for an Easter egg hunt which was staged in a roped off area among the daffodils running along the edge of the park.
This alone had raised about £900.
Children had to collect six different coloured plastic eggs and take them back to the main tent where they would be given a goody bag containing toys and chocolate treats.
Issy Blondel, 4, was clutching a small yellow bucket which she quickly filled with the eggs she needed, and this was going to have a real Easter egg in it on Easter Sunday.
‘I like chocolate very much,’ she said.
Her cousin Esme Queripel, 4, had also done a good job of finding her six eggs and was heading off to collect her prize.
