Sir,

Your female readers may be interested in Henpals which is a club for women to make contact with other local women.

I know, from my own experience, that when you move to a new place it can be difficult to make friends, as well as at other times in life such as leaving work to have a baby, being widowed, newly retired or coming through a divorce. The Henpals website means that women can find other members who live in their area to make friends and share interests together.

Amongst many other things, we have a Book Club with a monthly prize of a £10 book token. Members can also send in photos and news of current projects for our monthly news page - many members are very interested in various aspects of needlecrafts and lots of ideas are swapped in our forum section.

Annual membership of Henpals is £5 to cover our running costs. We have kept this as low as possible so that it is open to all women.

More information is available at http://www.henpals.com">www.henpals.com or do please email me at [email protected]">[email protected] if you have any queries. We look forward to welcoming you!

Jenny Roper.