I AM writing to thank everyone who supported the Epilepsy Action National Tea Break 2007 and helped to make it such a great success!

Hundreds of people across the UK joined in for this annual event for the fifth year running, helping us to raise funds of over £15,500.

Since Epilepsy Action's first National Tea Break in 2003, over £76,000 has been raised.

The 2007 nationwide event was supported by TV stars and personalities, including the writer and actor Stephen Fry; comedians Victoria Wood and Jo Brand; and celebrity chefs Antony Worrall Thompson and Alan Coxon.

This year's National Tea Break event will take place on Friday, October 17 to raise vital funds for the 456,000 people living with epilepsy throughout the UK.

To register your interest in receiving an organiser's starter pack, please complete our online form at epilepsy.org.uk/involved/teabreak/organiser.html.

The packs will be sent out in September 2008. They will contain an organiser's guide full of useful hints and tips, posters to promote your event, invitation cards to send to friends, family or work colleagues, celebrity recipe cards, balloons and paying-in slips for all your donations.

PAUL TRANTER, fundraising manager.