This Thursday we’ll publish the second edition of Charity Benchmarks – which we do in happy partnership with Allan Freeman. You can sign up to get a copy of the report HERE. I wish I could say that year two has been smoother, easier and more straightforward than year one. But it hasn’t. Benchmarking is […]

  As per about this time for the whole of the previous decade, we’re shutting early to celebrate Open’s birthday. Our resident chefs will cook, our resident DJs will play and our resident free-bar troublemakers will doubtless make some memorable trouble. My contribution to proceedings, meanwhile, is to write a blog post reflecting on where […]

Here at Open, we have a little tradition – once a year we each give £1,000 to the charity or charities of our choice. Then we gather together for an afternoon of sharing, storytelling, laughing and (a little bit of) crying. The Give-a-thon is something we all look forward to and are so grateful to […]