Juliet Baxter, former chairman of the PPA's national executive committee, said, 'We have had a great response. The reunion will be an informal event to mark the golden year and an opportunity to meet old friends.'
Ms Baxter said many people had got in touch in response to a letter published this summer in the Guardian, the newspaper that published the original letter in 1961 that prompted the birth of the charity.
The writer of the letter was Belle Tutaev, a young mother from London, who called for a national petition to be presented to the minister of education, demanding more nursery schools and play facilities for the under-fives.
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