An appeal for books from an Indian school brought an enormous response from pupils of Queen Katherine School at Kendal in 1994. Some 1,500 books were collected and shipped to the Sacred Heart School in Anjuna, Goa, by Kendal Lions, who organised the appeal. Two of the organisers from Kendal Lions also visited the Indian school to find they had built a grand bookcase for their treasured books. SMILES: A-level students who organised a fund-raising aerobics session in aid of LEPRA in 1993 The Lions were given numerous letters thanking pupils of Queen Katherine School for their gifts. The books sent included classics, geography books and children’s adventure stories. The thank you letters showed that among the most popular offerings were Enid Blyton’s Famous Five books.