Congratulations Jeanette, an excellent letter (Recruiter, 4 February).

Having been a regional director for the South West, I resigned in January due to poor health and the loss of faith in the REC, five months before. I fully appreciate that the need for the REC will remain and applaud the hard working core team that holds it together. I found that the massively high turnover of staff within our trade industry concerning to say the least.

I am, however, renewing my membership as an individual member, as I am returning to freelance soon.

Hopefully in 2009 the REC will retain its core staff and start working on behalf of its members.