Elsevier staff held a ‘Knit-a-thon’ with seven offices in the UK, US and the Netherlands participating – for KasCare in South Africa, they made squares to be stitched into blankets for AIDS orphans; LexisNexis Legal & Professional in New York helped organise a children’s library for Books for Kids; while their counterparts in Hong Kong participated in Feeding Hong Kong’s ‘Bread Run;’ and those in South Africa engaged senior leaders in cycling over funds for three charities in Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town.