PATRICIA Tatchell (LET, letters) need not worry, the church still only expects you to pay what you can afford and perhaps for some people that might be as little as a pound.

To suggest, though, that if everyone paid that amount all funding problems would be solved, shows she knows little of the finances of that Anglican Church.

IN the 1940s when I first attended services most people gave at least two shillings (10p).

That amount would have paid for the postage of 10 letters, admission to the cinema or football match, two pints of beer, 20 cigarettes and so on.

Compare the current cost of those and it will be quickly seen what the real worth of a pound is today.

I just hope that Mark Cannon's parishioners get the message.

KEITH REYNOLDS, Wyre Crescent, Darwen.