I AM the Honorary Secretary of the York branch of the Royal Air Forces Association.

Our primary aim is to raise funds towards our welfare work for serving and ex-members of the Royal Air Force and Air Forces of the Commonwealth, and the dependants of those men and women.

Raising these funds is, mainly, through our annual Wings Appeal, a charity known to most of your readers.

Our problem this year is that we have been unable to get anyone to co-ordinate our collections, and as the years pass, we have fewer members able to stand with a collecting tin.

My plea is to any of your readers, who can, or are willing to help in any way, to please contact me at the address below.

John H Sutherland,

Honorary Secretary,

RAFA York Branch,

10 Barfield Road,

York Y031 9AR.

...THE Women's Royal Voluntary Service have been delivering Meals On Wheels in York to the house-bound for more than 30 years.

To continue to provide this valued service on Mondays to Fridays we are looking for volunteers, male and female, drivers and helpers, who would be prepared to give approximately two hours of their time, weekly or fortnightly. Expenses would be paid.

Please contact me on (01904) 624861 for more details.

Mrs J V Davies,

Meals On Wheels Project Manager,

82 Bootham, York.

Updated: 10:50 Tuesday, July 15, 2003