Thank you sincerely to all that have donated and for all the messages of goodwill. On passing our target we are closing the fundraising page. Sheila and Anthony are extremely grateful and have had the chance to see your messages. They have given me this letter to publish on their behalf:

We reached our initial target!! Thank you so much. We're increasing the target to be able to help even more. We've reached out those affected although it will be another day or so until we know more about the needs of all those impacted. It's clear that a number of local businesses have been hit hard, so we are assessing their need also. More photos are appearing online of the Fire crews in action and these just underline how much risk they had to take to bring the fire under control. Thanks again and keep sharing, please!!

Thank you so much for your support. Please continue to share this now as we would like to be able to pass on funds to the families in the next few days, whilst they need it most.