DEAR EDITOR - I am writing to thank everyone in the town who has so generously supported the Women's Refuge recently, with gifts from various harvest festival services.

We have been overwhelmed by the kindness and the sheer number of gifts of food for our emergency supplies to be given to families who come into the refuge with little or nothing of their own.

We are so grateful to everyone.

It is not possible here to name all the donors but I would like especially to mention the churches in the town and the parents and pupils of Chawson First School, and to say how much their gifts will be appreciated.

Dr Jenny Bulman,

Chairman of refuge committee,

Droitwich Women's Refuge,

Droitwich Spa.