A DUNFERMLINE mum is questioning how The Salvation Army got her 15-year-old daughter’s contact details to send her a letter asking for donations.

Susan Dryburgh, of Broomhead Park, contacted the Press about the letter which was sent to daughter Kate Brady at the end of November.

Susan said, “Kate is a fifth-year pupil at Queen Anne High School and she opened the letter on her lunchbreak and showed me it.

“It was asking Kate to give them a donation and listed what her donation would be used for.

“When I saw it I thought that isn’t right that they are sending letters asking for donations from a child.

“Kate is still at school, she doesn’t have a job, she doesn’t pay tax so can’t give Gift Aid, how was she meant to give a donation – was she expected to sign over her pocket money? It is most likely a mix-up and they didn’t mean to send it to Kate but I am concerned where they got her details from.

“It wasn’t sent to anyone else in the house, just Kate.

“When I spoke to friends after receiving the letter they couldn’t believe a child would be sent a letter like that.

“Kate does charity work through school. It wasn’t the fact they sent a letter asking for donations, I was just confused how she was on the mailing list being a child.” A Salvation Army spokesperson said, “It is normal industry practice for us to buy lists from companies and other charities and the girl’s name would have come from one of these lists.

“We have offered to take the identification code on the letter so we can find out what list the girl was on and bring this to the attention of our list supplier.

“We regret any inconvenience that this may have caused.”