As a relatively small charity that helps people to live better with sight loss, like many others we have seen donations drop over the last two years.
We want to do more. We would like to be able to concentrate on doing the work we know makes a difference rather than scrabbling around for scraps of funding here and there until we get enough to make it through.
What’s galling is the amount of money that’s actually out there, money that those who have it don’t use or don’t really need (Britain’s top earners giving less to charity while incomes rise, 15 December). I can promise you that I will find a better use for it – one that will improve more people’s lives and save the public purse from picking up the tab for the consequences were we not here.
The Sackler family’s name may be mud at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York’s Met museum to remove Sackler family name from its galleries, 9 December), as it was at our London art galleries a couple of years ago, but we could use their money too: I think I could hold my nose just about long enough to take some of that apparently stinking pile and do something better with it.
Are there any other disgraced billionaires out there who want to salve their conscience a bit? Come and talk to me. I can help.
Hugh Sorrill
General manager, Coventry Resource Centre for the Blind
