I have loved dolphins ever since I was very young. I think that their smiley faces, mischievous behaviour, trustfulness and super intelligence are wonderful. When I was eight, instead of presents, I asked all of my friends for a donation and gave all of my birthday money to the WDCS, which raised about £80.

I have seen captive dolphins and didn’t like it. The pool that they were kept in was small and boring. They were almost never given any freedom and, when they were, it was to entertain humans.

I wanted to raise some funds for the WDCS again, so I chose to set up a stall, because I had lots of used and unused toys and games that I had saved for this event.

My dad and I headed to the local church to set up our stall. There were lots of other stalls. As the day passed by, our stall became the most visited. I handed out all the leaflets on adopting dolphins that the WDCS had sent me and displayed some posters. By the end of the day we had raised £60.

Seeing dolphins in the wild is a much more pleasant experience. Dolphins leap and twirl on their own because they want to in their natural habitat, not because they are made to. We need to help whales and dolphins because it would be a tragedy to lose them from our seas and rivers forever.