I AM writing to appeal to your readers to support a nationwide festive fundraising initiative taking place in all Homebase stores in December in aid of Teenage Cancer Trust.

Teenage Cancer Trust has been given the chance to bucket collect in every Homebase store on Saturday and Sunday, December 10 and 11. We are asking volunteers to help and, if they wish, wear a Santa hat, jazz up their collection bucket with tinsel or go in full fancy dress as a bucket collecting elf !

We also need volunteers for our Christmas wishes stands in-store, where customers will be encouraged to donate £1 to write a Christmas wish on a tag, which can then be hung on the store Christmas tree.

Please contact christmascollection@teenage cancertrust.org or call 020 7612 0370.

SIMON DAVIES, Chief Executive of Teenage Cancer Trust.