TOWARDS EMPLOYMENT [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sin, — I should
like to call the attention of your readers to the Work Finders' Fund. This is a charity run on a small but effective scale by three people who give their time and money for nothing. There are no overhead expenses.
The value of the services rendered lies in solving, for men searching for work, the problem of keeping themselves alive during the process. Too often this is nearly a wholc-timo pre-occupation.
Last year this Fund helped 150 men to find work who were completely down and out. More than twice that number were given a week's lodging and food, and in some cases clothing and fares for their interviews with potential em- ployers. Under £300 was spent.
It costs 9s. 4d. to give a man board and lodging for a week, though not, as may be imagined, of a kind to sap his deter- mination to find work as quickly as possible.
No previous appeal for funds has been made to the public, but now the organizers feel that their record justifies, and their opportunities for doing good work demand, such an appeal. If anybody wants to help an extremely deserving cause., will they send donations to Mrs. Keith Newall, 53 Grosvenor Street, London, W.1, crossed " A/C Work Finders'
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