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The journey will took him from Brighton to London, and through all 15 cities where StreetVet operates - including Brighton, Portsmouth, Bournemouth, Plymouth, Cornwall, Bristol, Gloucester and Birmingham
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00:00so I am Phil but I guess I'm more commonly known as Hercule Van Wolfwinkel and he's the guy that
00:09draws the some people call them silly and other people call them endearing and I still call them
00:14like rubbish portraits of people's pets and so yeah so that's what I do so I draw I draw rubbish
00:22portraits of people's pets basically to raise money for charity so tell me a little bit about
00:29the rubbish pat portrait fundraising adventure um so that's it's how everything's happened sort of so
00:36organically and accidentally and it all started back in the summer of 2020 um and I was drawing
00:44at home with my then six-year-old son and I just shared this picture that I drew with Sam um of
00:51our dog Nala um just out to my friends on Facebook and it was and it was rubbish like I it's uh it was
00:59it was a terrible picture because I'm not an artist um or I wasn't back then um and I put it out just
01:05to my friends with this jokey comment about pet portraits being for sale and to come and place
01:09your orders and um it's uh I mean long very long story short it basically exploded and turned into
01:16something which um five years later is still kind of trundling on and has raised um over 450 000 pounds
01:24for charity and then tell me a little bit then firstly about um street vet and and why you picked
01:31them as a charity so street vet um like I said earlier about this sort of project being organic
01:38and street vet kind of came into it quite organically as well um so I started out by I was just raising
01:44money for my local homelessness charity turning tides um and I'd been doing that for um a good few months
01:52so that was just six or seven months into it and um Jade Sapp who's one of the co-founders of street
01:59vet approached me during that time and it was really just a kind of introduction she just kind
02:04of messaged me to say that she'd seen what I was doing and really loved it and kind of told me a
02:10little bit about street vet and what they do and and I'll admit to not knowing anything about street
02:15vet um at that time but me and Jade um spoke at great length and we had a zoom meeting and just
02:22chatted and um when I found out about the work that they do um it was just a perfect fit because here
02:29I was drawing people's pets to raise money and awareness for a homelessness charity and then suddenly
02:35I become aware of this charity that are there you know their mission is to provide free and accessible
02:40veterinary care for the pets of those experiencing homelessness it was just this kind of like
02:45you know you couldn't have written it better if you'd tried um and so I kind of fell in love with
02:52the charity pretty much straight away um and I loved what they do um and their mission and the passion
02:58that Jade had for the charity
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