SIR – The Archbishop of Canterbury proclaimed that the rich and powerful should be compelled by law to help the poor and needy. A noble sentiment, although legal compulsion may be a little drastic.
However, recalling that one of his own organisation’s struggling ‘branch offices’ in Barkerend Road was only recently screaming out for financial support to renovate its ornate ceiling, perhaps the very ‘rich and powerful’ archbishop could consider using some of his own group’s vast £5.3 billion fortune of Church Commissioners’ investment funds to help this ‘poor and needy’ outpost ?
Who was it said, “Charity begins at home”? Unless that home is Lambeth Palace, it seems.
Graham Hoyle, Kirkbourne Grove, Baildon
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