Youth experience in Britain on a charity worker visa | Brief letters

Charity volunteers | The magic of kitchen objects | Bread on the table | Vegan amore divino | M&S cyber-attackThere is already a form of youth experience programme (EU may accept 12-month work visas for ‘youth experience’ scheme with UK, 25 April), not only for EU citizens but for any nationality to come to the UK. It’s the non-renewable one-year charity worker visa. Many charities, including religious communities such as mine in Dorchester, value the enthusiasm and international experience these young volunteers bring. Brother Hugh CobbettSociety of St Francis, Hilfield Friary• Bee Wilson’s article (Death, divorce and the magic of kitchen objects, 29 April) reminded me that the only thing my daughter has specifically asked me to leave her in my will is her great-grandmother’s potato peeler, which still works efficiently after at least 70 years.Gina ColeBurgate, Suffolk Continue reading...

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