Teenage mental health champion raises £275 for Manx Wildlife Trust

A teenage mental health champion has raised nearly £300 for the Manx Wildlife Trust (MWT) with a fascinating talk about how his snakes and other ‘weird’ pets have helped him deal with long-term mental health struggles.Seventeen-year-old Jessie Quirk entertained a full house at Erin Arts Centre in Port Erin with his talk, 'The Secret Lives of Weird Pets: Snakes, Autism and Me'.He brought along his western hognose and corn snakes, leaf insects, mantises and a giant African millipede to meet the audience and was joined by Allan Campbell from Zoo2YouIOM.Siobhán caught up with Jessie after the talk to find out how the audience reacted to his wide collection of pets, and to hear more about his upcoming talk at the first ever Eastbourne Invertebrate Convention on Saturday 23 May!