Homerton College’s alumni magazine, the Homertonian, published a letter about CHV in July. The original material submitted to the magazine is also shown here. It was expected that it would be edited but the original material contains some interesting points and some new descriptive material about the camps, so I include for your interest.

We have also seen some comments from former campers (the links are here and here), and from Peggy Heap, who fostered a child from Hungary via Vienna.

Reviewing the material published on the website to date, there appear to be two broad themes.  First, several writers comment on the similarity between the situation now, with the movement of refugees from Africa and The Middle East, and the situation we faced in the 60’s/70’s with the movement of people from Eastern Europe. I wonder whether today`s youth would be prepared to take up the challenge the way we did. Which brings me to the second theme. This relates to the way that we were able to run the camps with little or no rules nor regulation to control what we did or how we did it. We had no OFSTED looking over our shoulders nor any risk assessment. We had a freedom not available today but I am sure ways can be found of giving children adventure and fun within modern conditions.