The Crisis Open Christmas 2004 will run from 23rd to 30 December, and the Millennium Dome in Greenwich is one of six venues providing skills training and activities, companionship and crucial medical services. If you would like to help, e-mail volunteering@crisis.org.uk or look on the Crisis web site for more information about what you can do. I am suggesting this because I know (having worked as a volunteer) that those few days of regular meals, medical help, not being alone, being supported in beginning to kick an addition, has been a turning point in many people's lives. It is some years since I worked at the Open Christmas but I remember thinking, at the time, "this is what Christmas is about". Rachel in SE7