Giving it Away

As longtime readers (hello dad) will know, we like to celebrate the end of the financial year by giving away some money.

As per last year, everyone got £1,000 to give to the charity (or charities) of their choice. As per last year (apart from the fact that there are now seventeen of us) we sat down over lunch and presented our decisions. And, as per last year, there were lots of tears.

Headlines this year are:

• Very few people gave again to the causes they supported last year. Because, on the whole, they'd been a bit lame at saying thanks and feeding back.
  
• People generally gave to stuff that had affected them or that is near to them.
• Four people gave a total of £1,200 to an amazing project for abused kids on my.actionforchildren.org.uk – only the second time anyone's given their money to a client and far & away the biggest cheque we wrote.

We'll be posting individually over the coming weeks about our choices.

James