I admire Marc Necus for his valiant fund-raising cycle tours (Letters, July 29) but why does he only support Barnardo's?

Before he left I wrote and asked him but have not had a reply.

A friend of mine who used to work for the Brighton Volunteer Bureau some time ago tells me that most charities pay their volunteers' expenses, such as bus fares, but Barnardo's do not.

A very worth-while small local charity, a women's group who look after destitute and victimised women and which lost their council grant a couple of years ago as reported in The Argus then, could do a lot of good work with this money.

-Hans Lobstein, Brighton