THE Tavistock Cards for Good Causes shop in Tavistock has received a 'thank you' card from the group who first founded the charity 50 years ago.

In 1959, a group of medical charities got together to talk about co-ordinating publicity for selling charity cards at Christmas. They formed 'The 1959 Group of Charities' and, in 1964, began selling Christmas cards from empty shops in town centres.

Fifty years later, the charity they founded is still going strong and in conjunction with its trading arm Cards for Good Causes Limited (established in 1988), has raised more than £75,000,000.

The Tavistock shop is open Monday to Saturday, 10am to 4pm until December 18 in the lower meeting room of the URC in Russell Street.