MADAM, May I please ask, through your letters page, for some help from the wonderful people of Monmouth. Our festival which is one of Europe's longest running and largest free festivals starts next week and there are some things we need. The festival is organised and run by people from the community for the community but we desperately need some volunteers to help with both stewarding and bucketing. We want as many people as possible to enjoy the festival. Volunteers have fun and help out at the same time. The stewards help us keep an eye on the size of the crowd, whilst ensuring safety. The bucketeers help us raise the much needed cash to start the ball rolling for next year. The last piece of help required is that everyone attending helps us to maintain our licence by not bringing any glass to the festival site. Please help us to keep going. You donated £20,000 in the buckets last year and we need everyone's help to raise £25,000 from this year's festival which boasts one of the biggest programmes we've had. More details of how to help and how to volunteer can be found on our website: http://www.monmouthfestival.co.uk">www.monmouthfestival.co.uk or you can enquire via email at: [email protected]">[email protected] Mark Williamson (Director of Monmouth Music Festival)