WITHOUT OUR INTERNS, Intelligent Giving would be half what it is: half the charity profiles, half the sector overviews, half the fact-checking and half the fun. More to the point, without interns we probably wouldn't have launched yet (we launched nine months ago).

Today's a good day to celebrate their contribution because, partly through our media contacts and partly through his own chutzpah, one of our current interns Johnny Chatterton has hit the headlines. Johnny was stung by HSBC's sudden decision to slash its three-year-interest-free account for graduates into a sorry-we-changed-our-minds-it's-now-10-per-cent.

Johnny, who has written several charity sector overviews and led our mystery-shopping research on chuggers (watch this space), wasn't going to take this treatment lying down. So he joined the burgeoning Facebook protest group and we opened up our contacts book to him so he could bring the matter to the press. That was last week. Within days his David vs Goliath story had hit the headlines - prompting the Facebook group to double in size - and today he got the result he'd been looking for: HSBC did a U-Turn.

Adam's now mumbling things about us taking on the financial services industry...

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