AS part of Volunteers' Week 2005, Save the Children UK would like to thank all of the volunteers who run its charity shops. Every year it raises many thousands of pounds to ensure more children in the UK and across the world have a happy, healthy and secure childhood.

This year, due to the fantastic public support for the Tsunami Appeal, the shop volunteers had to pull out all the stops to cope with unprecedented levels of donations of clothing, books and bric-a-brac, as well as many generous financial donations.

Save the Children shops are run entirely by volunteers and I would like to publicly thank them all for being and staying there with us.

If you can spare any time to help in any of shops please phone Donna our Shops Administrator on 01474 709351 to find out more. With your help we can continue to expand our work to make real and lasting change to children's lives.

Sally Brighton, Save the Children, St Johns Lane, London