A BEAVER group in Alveston marked had a slightly different session this week – doing things to make their parents and families feel happy whilst raising money for charity.

Instead of the usual fun and games the Beavers spent time thinking about what made them happy and what they can do to make other people feel the same way.

The 14 members of the 2nd Alveston Beavers, all aged between six and eight, talked about an ideal world where no one was prevented from feeling good by unfair circumstance, including things like lack of food and access to clean water.

Following this they decided to hold an evening where they would make other people feel good and whilst supporting Comic Relief with the aiming of helping ‘make the world a more fair place to live in’.

The children worked hard to produce a puppet show, a dance routine as well as telling jokes and giving out compliments, paper flowers and happy chocolate faces they had made.

The hall was decorated with paintings of things that made the children happy in preparation for the event.

Emily Fairman, leader of the 2nd Alveston Beavers said that the evening was “amazing”.

“I thought it was amazing,” she said. “The kids just got on and made it happen, even the children who are often quiet just got stuck in to the thing they decided was how they wanted to make others feel good.

“One parent came up to me as they left and said “well, you have definitely made me smile, brilliant”.”

By the end of the evening the group had successfully managed to raise £50 for Comic Relief.