On one side we have to speak about the dolphins. Recent studies have shown that spending time with animals could make some people improve their relationship capacity or get better form tehir illnesses. It's important to say that not all kind of pathologies are going to recuperate just by swimming with the dolphins, neither all the animals are capable of helping people. It's demonstrated that animals such as the dolphins or the horses make the human beings upgrade their internal state and could feel better. Then, when you fell better, in a "psicologycally" way, it's well know that you face the problems, even the health ones, in better conditions to solve them. That's my theory.
On the other side, we have the problem of how to raise the ammount of more than ten thousand Pounds in order to help Nikki. There are many ways of getting money to help needed people. I think that working hard you can do nearly everything. So, I would try to make some soccer team organize a benefic match. Or perhaps at Christmas time when people feel more frindly to help, make a collect from people I know, even in the street, asking to all the pedestrians I could.