Dear Tim,
I am writing this as an open letter to you so all the chillers can let you know how we feel about your "proposal".
Wendy set up this for many years ago and has dedicated her life to helping carers. We all found her and our chiller family here on Chill4us carers. I think it is insulting and disrespectful to her that you could even think about this.
We are not all Norfolk residents. Chill has far passed the boundaries of just that area. It is a national carers forum, helping so many carers who need friendship, company and support. Wendy created a unique place for us. There is nothing else like chill that can give us what we all need and want.
If you swallow us all up under your umbrella, vulnerable, desolate and lonely people will have nowhere to go. We have built up a family over the years. You have no right to break us up. Things that we have helped each other through would not have been possible under any other forum. We have shared private and difficult problems that we haven't even told our family or friends as we know that here we are safe and understood. wWe know we will receive love and support not judgment. The life of a carer is hard enough without taking away our sanctuary and distraction from our daily difficulties.
You have tried to underhandely dupe wendy and the managers into a contract that is not what you what you proposed. No one would have agreed to make the changes that you suggest and would not of allowed you access to our sanctuary.
This is our home and we will not be moved.
Jane