SIR - I should like to thank everyone who contributed to the appeal at St Barnabas Church, Worcester, for Christmas shoeboxes for the homeless in Worcester.

We were so pleased to receive over 200 beautifully decorated boxes full of gifts, which were blessed and distributed to St Paul's Hostel, Maggs Day Centre, the Women's Refuge and ASHA Centre, so that they could be given out to people in their care on Christmas Day. It is wonderful to see the generosity people in Worcester have for those less fortunate than themselves. Thank you.

MARY JAMES, Worcester