This summer we're asking you to #PopItOnAPostcard for someone who won't be going on holiday.

Join us for our quarterly letter writing workshop in December 2024.

We’d love you to write for us. Here’s some great tips before you get started.

Join our Letter Writing Club today and enjoy a stationery box being delivered to you ahead of each themed quarterly workshop.

Here's a sample letter to inspire you from our Duke of Edinburgh volunteer, Sara.

Needing inspiration for your first letter of the new year? Here's a sample letter to inspire you.

We are often asked how to write a letter to someone with cancer. We always advise to write about everyday things.

A letter is a gift, for anyone and everyone. A way to fight isolation and loneliness that many are affected by - your own and the reader’s.

Listen to Miranda Keeling being interviewed yesterday on BBC Radio 5 Live by Nihal Arthanayake, along with Professor Bruce Hood, our very own Alison Hitchcock and another friend and letter writer, Liz Maguire.

We share three ways to face letter-writing block and get your ink flowing once more.

We’re celebrating World Poetry day by sharing some of our favourite poems that are wonderful to share in your letters.

This Mother’s Day, what message will you send in a letter or card?

We have an incredible community of writers and artists involved with Donate A Letter, and this blog shares their heart and art.

Today is Send a Card to a Friend Day and we want to help you take those first steps into writing that card with some hints and tips!

Writing a letter to someone you don’t know is challenge enough but then add in that they are in hospital with cancer, and the challenge can seem too much. Here’s some ideas to help get you started.

Not sure where to start when writing to a loved one living with cancer? Start here, there’s lots of tips inside!

If you’re sending a card or letter via our Donate A Letter programme, here are some hints and tips to get you on your way!

Not sure what words to use? Why not create something a little different - with poems, illustrations or gifts?

There were so many great ideas and wonderful words shared with us during The Big Letter Write, so we wanted to give you a taster to help you with the next steps on your letter writing journey.

Sometimes you’re not sure what to write. Here’s a sample letter you can copy, and make your own as you wish.