I WRITE in response to the letter from J Attwell in last week's Wiltshire Times.

Does J Attwell know just how difficult and time consuming it is to organise an event such as the grand bingo evening? Many people give their time freely to raise funds for Holbrook School, perhaps J Attwell will be one of them next year.

I for one really enjoyed the evening and over £2,000 was raised for the school. That alone tells you what a good time everyone had.

LINDA HORNBY,

Staverton,

Trowbridge.

IT was with utter dismay that I read J Attwell's letter headed 'Scene was complete chaos' (Wiltshire Times, November 30).

The letter was referring to the bingo night held in the Civic Hall, Trowbridge, on November 27. I attended the event, which was admittedly a victim of its own success, with the attendance exceeding all expectations. I would like to point out the event was organised by a volunteer committee of six parents in aid of Holbrook School.

I had a most enjoyable evening and hopefully the children of Holbrook School will benefit from the money that was raised.

Such criticism of an event, which was organised entirely by volunteers with prizes generously donated by parents and local businesses, is totally unfair. Next year maybe those who are only too quick to criticise the efforts of others would like to offer assistance rather than criticism.

MRS JL GUYATT,

High Street,

Steeple Ashton.

IN reply to J Attwell's letter 'Scene was complete chaos', I am one of the organisers of this event and would like to point out we are not professionals, merely a small group of parents on a committee trying our best to raise funds for a good cause.

We were completely overwhelmed by the response to our successful advertising of this event and could not foresee so many people would turn up. We sought the advice of the management on site and were informed it would be possible to seat everybody without contravening any health and safety rules.

I cannot thank them enough for the tremendous lengths they went to, by removing partitions, to accommodate more tables and chairs. This inevitably delayed the start of the game. It was either this or turn those queuing outside away, some of whom had been waiting a long time.

As for the raffle tickets selling out, never in my time as helper of this event have we ever run out of raffle tickets (some 2,500 were sold on the night). Our sincere apologies to those who were unable to buy tickets. We will make sure we have 5,000 next year.

MRS T HUMPAGE,

The Croft,

Trowbridge.

I WRITE in response to the letter in last week's Wiltshire Times concerning the grand bingo at the Civic Hall on November 27.

This event, which was organised by six busy working mums, took a lot of time and effort to prepare. The tombola started with 200 prizes and the three left when the bingo was about to begin were given as raffle prizes. Two thousand five hundred raffle tickets were sold on the night and the profits from this obviously very popular evening was £2,265.

It is impossible to predict how many people are going to turn up to these events and the organisers did their best to ensure no one was turned away. So I say to the organisers "Well done" and I can only suggest that if J Attwell can equal this, there are plenty of organisations who would be very pleased to receive a similar amount of money to boost their funds.

MRS HILARY PRICE,

Chichester Park,

Westbury.