I would like to express my praise for the work carried out by the staff of Malvern Hills District Council's economic & community development department.

Throughout the year but especially during school holidays, many and varied activates are run and organised by this department for children and youth of the area.

These activities are not only fun for the children but help in their social development. The cost of these schemes in relation to their benefit to individual children and the local community is very cheap.

Unfortunately, these schemes do not get the credit and publicity which they richly deserve. I would also suggest that MHDC continues with these schemes and hopefully develops them.

Individually, I would like to praise Della Price, community activator, Pauline Striplin, community development worker, Jenny Lawrence, community safety manager, and all the volunteers for their fantastic work.

Mr G Lewis, Duke of Edinburgh Way, Malvern.