By Claire Bodanis, Director, Falcon Windsor Don’t get too excited, they haven’t canned the whole pointless ESEF exercise* — too much water under the bridge for that. But, following the techies’ success in finding a way of turning our lovely, well designed PDFs into XHTML for tagging and filing purposes…

By Claire Bodanis, Director, Falcon Windsor My author husband assures me that a book going from idea to publication in less than a year is an astonishing feat in publishing — but I must say, for someone used to publishing annual reports in a lot less time than that, I’ve…

By Claire Bodanis, Founder, Falcon Windsor “Assess, assure and inform: improving audit quality and effectiveness”, is hardly the snappiest of titles. But my academic training kicked in and I knew that it was my duty to readers and publisher alike to read this latest government-commissioned review into the quality and…

By Claire Bodanis, Founder, Falcon Windsor People coming into my kitchen are generally not surprised to see a copy of The Spectator lying about, although I do draw the line at The Daily Telegraph — it’s not funny enough. They often do a doubletake though when they see it sitting…

By Claire Bodanis, Founder, Falcon Windsor In a break from FW blogging tradition, Claire uses this first blog of 2020 to share some FW news I must admit, I had wanted to start off this blog with a highlight from my Christmas break — the tartan giraffe. Naturally I would…

By Claire Bodanis, Founder, Falcon Windsor Claire pays tribute to brilliant colleague, stalwart of Falcon Windsor parties and kindest of friends, Andrea Colvile Alexander Colvile has — and probably always will have — the distinction of being the youngest ever guest at a Falcon Windsor party. Those who came to…

Could you help? Rob’s fund to remember Andrea (for research into autoimmune liver disease) has reached a fantastic £77,000 — but we’re still aiming for £100,000. Anything you could donate would be great — see my blog below from August, which was a tribute to Andrea: brilliant colleague, stalwart of…

By Claire Bodanis, Founder, Falcon Windsor I must start this blog with a thank you — because without those lovely clients and colleagues who responded to my research question back in November, I wouldn’t have had much of a chapter in Dark Angels’ new book On Writing! …

By Fiona Smith, Project Manager, Falcon Windsor Fiona considers the unexpected similarities between managing an annual report and making a hat. My godson’s about to finish primary school, and last week he showed me something that started the most unexpected train of thought. The class is making a year book…