The themed sings at the Woodlands are now £8 entry, £48 pounds if attended all week.

The Rugby Club sessions are not free, there is a collection.

I do put money into the tin - and now feel guilty that in previous years I have put less into the Woodlands one as the collectors tend to be less 'in your face' than in other venues.

I don't feel segregated, Sidmouth is where I am not 'Mom being weird' and feel welcomed everywhere I can get to.

I feel it is the organisers who are separating the individual events and by stipulating that they have to be 'self funding' they are creating artificial divisions.

I have never divided the donations I make evenly between the different venues, and often have just put a note into the next collecting tin shaken under my nose.

If I had carefully divided up the cash so as to put in the same amount in each venue on each day, would that have provided the organisers with a greater insight into the relative 'value' of each event?

I have always regarded Sidmouth as one event to fund - perhaps I was wrong and I have been sending the wrong messages.

Anne Croucher