SIR - Every year thousands of us return from holidays abroad, our pockets jangling with coins that we can't spend in the UK.

This summer I'm supporting the Help the Aged foreign currency recycling appeal - You Know it Makes Cents - to encourage people to recycle their unused foreign cash and help raise £10,000 to aid the charity's fight to free older people in the UK and overseas from poverty, isolation and neglect.

So this year, rather than putting leftover foreign cash to one side, on the off chance that you'll return to that far-flung destination, why not join me and use your small change to help make a huge difference to vulnerable older people, by donating it to Help the Aged.

It's not only current foreign cash that can be recycled with Help the Aged - the Charity also collect currency that is no longer valid.

Just call the Help the Aged Recycling Hotline on 0870 7700 446 or e-mail transform@helptheaged.org.uk for more information.

Currency can also be handed in at a Help the Aged shop, visit www.helptheaged.org.uk to find the one closest to you.

Amanda Lamb, pictured, Help the Aged supporter, Pentonville Road, London