Welcome, Alistair McLean, new chief executive of FRSB. I have been racking my brains to find common ground between greyhound racing and fundraising. Nothing comes to mind except profound and very personal gratitude that it is not the custom to take old, underperforming fundraisers round the back of the kennels and shoot us.

The debate on the future of face-to-face fundraising will continue tonight on that great bastion of british broadcasting, the BBC, as Intelligent Giving's Adam Rothwell and the Institute of Fundraising take to the airwaves.

I received an email yesterday from a chief executive of a charity in Sheffield, who happens to be a woman. I only highlight this fact because her point was that all the contributors for January’s issue of PF were men.

Happy new year! Did you have a good Christmas? Eat lots of turkey? Celebrate with a luxury or two? Good on you, it can’t be all doom and gloom. But those early December paydays make January a long and difficult month, so I’m sure you will have (in some way) reviewed youar finances to see if you are making the most of your money.