The Huntingdonshire Young Carers Project, part of West Anglia Crossroads, is delighted and very grateful that the recent We Care appeal managed to raise so much money to help our work – so thank you for the cheque sent recently for £5,221-63.

I think the appeal was a great success and not just on a financial level – it has certainly raised our profile.
We have had many more donations to the project as a direct result of all the publicity we have been given this past year.
We have also had people offering their time as volunteers and wanting to help in some way.

We recently won the Cambridgeshire County Council tender for young carers services in Huntingdonshire and are very pleased because this means that the groups that we run will be safe for a few more years.
This is great news for us though we still have to keep raising funds for our one on one work and for trips.
Thank you once again to the Town Crier and all those readers who donated and helped in any way.
Lucy Francklin,
Crossroads Young Carers Project in Huntingdonshire, St Ives.


Memorial day was such a success
>> I would like to say a big thank you to the staff and customers of The Lord Protector, Huntingdon, for their support in raising cash for two different causes on Mayday this year.

The staff and customers of the pub held a memorial community concert and family fun day to raise awareness and funds for Cancer Research UK and Rowdies Youth Football Club.

The day was in memory of Edna Betts, the former landlady who passed away in April 2006, Gary 'Geordie' McFarlane and Brian Jennings who both passed away long before their time, also both of whose boys play for Rowdies.

It has taken a long time to collect all the money in, but on Sunday, September 14 we were able to hand the cheques over for £1,000 each to Cancer Research UK and Rowdies Football Club, with a grand total of £2,000 having been raised on the day.
As landlord I would like to thank everyone who helped on the day, from stall holders to glass collectors – there are too many to name but you know who you are. Also a big thank you to all the people who attended and made the day a great success.

People often knock Huntingdon, but this just shows what big hearts we've got. So thank you all and well done everybody.
Gary Jolly, landlord
Lord Protector
Huntingdon


A fortune is spent
I would like to respond to Cllr Bob Barnes letter (Town Crier, September 4). Having been born and bred in Huntingdon I have seen many changes for the worse.

It was a town full of employment, with factories and building firms.
The High Street was full of shops and councillors were part-time shop owners and were always about to speak to. There were probably about 20 in all.
My mother was employed at Gazley House in Huntingdon, working at night and very early morning to chop sticks and carry coal up two flights of stairs to light the fires.

Our council tax has gone through the roof and now our councillors want more money for petrol, the question is whether we can afford it.
Now I'm seeing a lot of footpaths around town being patched up with a tablespoon of Tarmac here and there, while there's a fortune being spent on blocks of new offices in town.
C. Carter,
Queen's Drive,
Huntingdon

Flood relief
>> I WOULD just like to say a few words in response to those councillors who cast 'no' votes during the debate on the St Neots flood defence scheme.

They should remind themselves of the suffering of the many thousands of people whose homes have been flooded across the country – the misery it causes to families, the elderly and infirm is just terrible.
Any relief to prevent homes flooding should be carried out as quickly as possible.
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