Sir.-The pantomime season has finished at The Anvil. It was a super show and many people have said it was "the best".

Save the Children thinks the audiences are "the best" as we raised almost £4,000 through collections after each performance.

We have been allowed to collect for the past seven years and have raised approximately £37,000, thanks to Ian Trow, operations director at The Anvil. Long may we continue.

Every penny we raise counts in our fight against poverty, so you have all helped to bring joy to deprived children.

-Colleen Gould, Basingstoke branch secretary, Save the Children.