SIR: On behalf of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund's 1,000 scientists and doctors, I would like to thank all your readers who responded so positively to our recent HELP volunteer appeal and who are now working in our shops.

We rely overwhelmingly on voluntary funding to carry out our life-saving research and our shops are a vital part of our fund-raising effort. We are very grateful to all our volunteers who give up their time to help out in our shops and we always need more volunteers to help us.

If anyone would like to volunteer to work in one of our shops, please call our Northern retail office on 0113 231 1334 to find out more or alternatively why not drop in to your nearest shop.

Peter Vicary-Smith

Director of Fund-raising

and Communications

Imperial Cancer Research Fund

London

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