WSA Opportunities

Holly Budge is our very own Alresford-based adventurer and conservationist. Holly isn’t exactly a stranger to world records either. Who else can say they were the first woman to skydive off Everest and ride 1000km across Mongolia in nine days on semi wild horses?  No one. She was quite literally on top of the world when she summited Mount Everest last year to raise global awareness of the devastating impact of the elephant ivory trade and of her award-winning campaign, How Many Elephants.

And now Holly is going for her THIRD Guinness World Record at Alresford Music Festival on June 9th 2018!

On display will be a life-size papier-mache African bull elephant standing tall at 3.96m (the current world record for the largest papier mache structure is 3.82m). The structure will be built by local artists and will be stabled in its own dedicated White Space tent. Festival goers can paint and decorate the model for a contribution to Holly’s charity and the result will not only make a powerful and impactful piece of art but will be the biggest papier mache structure on record.

To follow Holly’s vital work and get involved, visit www.howmanyelephants.com

Holly is looking for a student(s) to build the wire frame structure in chicken wire and cover it in paper mache. It will then need to be painted in a realistic grey on the top half, so the festival goers can paint the legs only. 

I have organised workshop space for it to be built in located just off the Percy Hobbs roundabout.

If you are interested in working with Holly on this world record attempt please contact Kay May via km@soton.ac.uk with subject line ‘Biggest Elephant World Record’.