8:18am Friday 10th July 2009
By Telegraph & Argus
SIR – I read in the T&A Letters page (July 1) about the concert at Idle Baptist Church that made £253.25 to be split between Associations for spina bifida, hydrocephalus and candlelighters.
When I was a boy in the 1950s, I once went with a friend to see his cousin who lived nearby. The boy was of school age but sat in a high chair, happy and smiling, but brain-damaged.
Sadly he didn’t live long. I was told he had ‘water on the brain’.
Flash forward more than 40 years, and my grandson is born with hydrocephalus. He nearly didn’t make it out of infancy, but now he is a happy, normal ten-year-old going to mainstream school, thanks to having a shunt fitted.
This would not have been possible without the research that the concert at Idle was all about.
So I ask anyone considering about donating money to charity to think about one of the many children’s charities that need help.
Paul Collins, Brookfield Road, Pollard Park
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