Letter to Barbara

Director of Children's services
National Children's Home
Turner House
Highbury and Islington

24 May 2007


Dear Barbara,

I am writing to you because there has been alot of problems trying to arange a meeting with you. Your PA Vilma Edwards has needed to change the date now four times and still there is not a definite time as I haven`t been able to make contact with her today.

Obviously I am concerned about the implications of the possible closure of Legard Family centre and I feel that I have really not very much to go on as to the full story of the situation and where exactly that leaves us, placed as we are, in the middle.

It seems surprising how hard it is to make contact even though I am at the Garden every Tuesday and Thursday morning and early after-noon and you are just around the corner.

Of course you would be welcome to visit me at the garden and in that sense you would get a clear idea about what is important for us. Alternatively I can be available most afternoons after 2.pm

It is hard with this uncertainty to know what to say to members, whether to go ahead employing gardeners, making grant applications, tending the land. Of course that is exactly what we are doing because our occupancy of this land carries with it certain obligations and always has.

I hope therefore that we can resolve on a meeting as soon as possible so that some clarity can be reached and with this an understanding of what N.C.H is trying to do and what we in turn are trying to do.


Yours Sincerely,



Ruth Solomon

Co-ordinator of Memory Gardens Autistic Project