One of the questions we ask supporters in The Chase Index feels deceptively simple. We ask people how strongly they agree with the following statement: “I feel that I am thanked appropriately.” At a headline level, the results often look reassuring. Most supporters broadly agree that yes, they are thanked. But when you look beneath the surface, particularly by their means of giving, a more nuanced and slightly uncomfortable picture starts to emerge. Across the hundreds of thousands of...

Ho ho ho, Merry Christmas! I hope you're having a happy, restful break so far. Thank you to everyone who entered my Christmas quiz - and well done to everyone who got all four connections correct. If you haven't had a go at the questions yet, now is your last chance before I reveal the answers... Below are 16 Christmas song lyrics, each with a word missing. But it's not the words that you need - all 16 words fit into four groups of four, which each have a connection. Here are the 16 missing...

Merry Christmas from Roger! Here’s my Christmas quiz for 2025! It’s completely free to enter, so go on and have some fun. And raise some money for the brilliant SOFII · The Showcase of Fundraising Innovation and Inspiration at the same time. This year, missing words meets Only Connect’s wall. (Or New York Times’ Connections, if that’s more your thing.) Below are 16 Christmas song lyrics, each with a word missing. When you’ve worked out all 16 words you need to group them into four groups of...