Being a huge supporter of Royal Mail it’s so sad to feel like they’ve lost their core aims in recent years in terms of valuing and promoting letter writing, reinvesting into the historic and once great postal service, proposing to cut deliveries, and increasing the cost of stamps to make it unaffordable and unattractive to send letters and postcards. I hate to say it but as a loyal and dedicated letter writer it also makes me feel a bit used and abused. If anyone wanted to join us in writing to Royal Mail Head Office for FREE about the value of letter writing and the way forward then the addre ..read more

I’m always so grateful to everyone who lets me know when we get a mention somewhere, so when I got an early morning message via Instagram that we’d had a lovely shoutout on the Chris Evans Breakfast Show I was tickled pink to tune in and hear all the lovely conversations about letter writing and messages from listeners and even our very own jingle by the Breakfast Show team. Click HERE to listen. We get mentions at 0:50, 1.12, 1.41 and 1.59. Thanks everso, Chris and team! Dinah ..read more

It was wonderful to see the piece about Royal Mail cuts feature in The Telegraph this week too. Click HERE to read. Dinah ..read more

It was lovely to be invited on the Times Radio Breakfast Show with Ayesha Hazarika and Calum Macdonald to talk about the piece that was in The Times newspaper. Click HERE to listen at 3:55:26 or below. Dinah ..read more

It’s been quite a week at THLAS HQ for mentions in the media, but it all started here in The Times on Monday 8th April with an article written by Harry Taylor. Many thanks to Harry for raising the profile of handwritten letters, and also to Zach Culpin for coming to photograph the Letter Writing Shed for the piece as well. I’m just so glad I’d had a bit of a tidy and spring clean only a few days before. Photo by Zachary Culpin for The Times Click HERE to read the article. Dinah ..read more

Unless perhaps you’re high up in the Post Office, Fujitsu and, I’m guessing worryingly, maybe our own government, if you’ve watched the incredible real-life drama, Mr Bates Vs The Post Office, you can’t help but be deeply moved by the shocking revelations and ongoing travesty that is the Post Office Scandal. Some of the wrongs can never be righted because tragically people took their own lives over the lies and corruption, some have died, while others have had their lives torn apart and destroyed. It’s still dragging on after 20 years which as an observer is heart-breaking, but must be unimagi ..read more

“Sign up to become a Letters Against Isolation volunteer and send seniors around the world handwritten letters filled with joy!” – Letters Against Isolation Click HERE for their website and to find out more ..read more

“Give… A Few Words” is a Community Interest Company set up to help alleviate feelings of loneliness and isolation through letter writing. If you would like to find out more about the work they do, or to become a Volunteer Writer click HERE ..read more

Thank you so much to member Jan Baxter for writing into Country Life magazine recommending us to their readership. It was wonderful to see us mentioned amongst the glossy pages of this publication. Thanks everso, Jan! Dinah ..read more

“Self-appointed postman Vincent Berthelot’s mission to deliver letters by hand has spread beyond his native country.” Article by Ashifa Kassam. Click HERE to read ..read more