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But her mother is dead. Shot by a hunter and chopped up for meat in the forests of eastern Cameroon, on the west coast of Africa. Mayos’ life as a wild chimpanzee was brought to an abrupt end. The hunter kept her alive hoping to sell her as a ‘pet’. But her chances of survival were bleak.

Every year hundreds of chimps are illegally killed to supply the commercial ‘bushmeat’ trade. Chimp meat is sold in cities worldwide as a luxury food for wealthy people. Entire families of these intelligent, sentient creatures are hunted, killed and eaten on a daily basis, their traumatised babies sold as exotic pets.

This sickening trade threatens the chimpanzee’s very existence. One hundred years ago there were more than one million. Today fewer than 150,000 remain. Heading for extinction, chimps - our closest relatives - are being eaten to death.

Fortunately, Mayos is one of the lucky ones. She was rescued. After a long and arduous road trip the distraught baby was brought to Limbe Wildlife Centre (LWC) in southern Cameroon. Terrified and very weak, Mayos needed specialist 24 hour care. She is one of the youngest infants LWC has ever cared for.

St Mark's Hospital in Harrow is one of the best hospitals in the world for the treatment of diseases of the bowel. They are specialists in the causes and treatment of diseases such as Colitis, Crohn's and Bowel Cancer and they treat patients who have been referred to them from all over the country.

St Mark's Hospital is doing more than anyone to extend the understanding of diseases of the bowel, and the treatment of people affected by them and every year medical practitioners from around the world flock to St Mark's Hospital to hear about their groundbreaking work. St Mark's Hospital receives funding from the NHS, but the hospital's research and education programme, the very things that have made St Mark's Hospital great, cannot be funded from the public purse. The cost of this work, which is affecting millions, is borne by the St Mark's Hospital Foundation.

The Foundation is faced each year with having to raise funds for their ongoing research programme and the St Mark's Foundation Mosaic Appeal is making a valuable contribution. 

The Scouting organisation, which offers opportunities for all young people between the ages of 6- 25 in the UK and abroad, is currently active in 216 countries and supports a global membership of over 28 million, with two thirds of its international membership situated in developing countries.

Each Scout who has volunteered to take part in the Congo expedition has been given the responsibility of raising £2500 each, towards funding the trip. Please support them by sponsoring a tile or two on their Mosaic Appeal.
 

Two Mosaicappeals.com representatives went along with a laptop and sold tiles to the guests at £10 and £25 each. One generous guest, Mr Royston Cobb of Pipercox, sponsored tile no. 1 for £100. By the end of the evening the appeal had reached a grand total of £790, a great kick start to their appeal.

Their honeymoon was spent in Paris and they both agreed that it would be a brilliant idea to go back after 10 happy years.

The cancer unit is close to both of their hearts following on from a member of the family who has suffered from cancer and was treated at UCLH.

They do such a fantastic job at UCLH that Mandy and Jez want to give something back to help other families who need help to fight cancer.

"Please support us by giving generously to our appeal" - Mandy Marshall.

The RNLI is the charity that provides a 24-hour lifesaving service around the UK and Republic of Ireland. Our volunteer crews give up their time and comfort to carry out rescues in difficult and often dangerous conditions.

It costs over £20 to keep one of our lifeboats running at full speed for 10 minutes.  On a rescue, your donation of £20 could provide the 10 vital minutes that might be the difference between life and death for a seafarer, freezing in the icy waters of the Channel, North Sea or the Medway.

The John Aspinall Foundation, in conjunction with Howletts and Port Lympne Wild Animal Parks, is devoted to saving rare and endangered animals. As a registered charity, it relies on donations to help continue with its breeding and reintroduction programmes for endangered animals to their natural habitat.

The Totally Wild mosaic appeal on behalf of The Aspinall Foundation is an exciting and fun-filled fundraising venture. Their mosaic is of Makoua, a silver-back gorilla playing with Teke, his son, the first ever baby born to a reintroduced gorilla. This painting by Martin Jordan was made from an original photograph taken in the wild.

An image tile costs just £10, and the sponsors’ border tiles are £100 each. You can buy one tile or as many as you wish, even get together with others – a group of friends, a school or even get everyone in your street to club together.

Some tiles have mystery prizes behind them including: junior keeper for the day, VIP tour for 6 around Port Lympne Wild Animal Park, free family admission to Howletts and Port Lympne, limited edition prints and many other prizes.

Our Mission is to relieve the suffering of cancer patients and improve the provision of cancer care within the Kent area.

A tile costs as little as £25 and you can buy as many as you want and can add a special message. Commercial sponsors can demonstrate their support by sponsoring a border tile for just £100. These tiles give you the chance to add a message of your choice but also provide a valuable link to your own website which will increase your own search engine visibility