SIR - As the new county organiser for the Red Cross open gardens, I am delighted to let readers know that the amount raised this summer by the Gloucestershire gardens was a record £29,097.

We are enormously grateful to everyone who so generously opened their gardens or helped in any way and to all the visitors who supported both them and the British Red Cross.

Julia Barton, County Organiser, Red Cross House Westward Road, Cainscross, Stroud