Open and Transparent

My idea of openness and transparency is that all organisations which enjoy the benefit of public money in some way should be perfectly happy to be held to account for what they do - and operate to the highest possible standards.

So I find it puzzling that many charitable organisations - which have special tax exempt status of course - should operate in ways that are not always  easy to understand or sometimes in a manner that could be regarded as closed and opaque.

Take the Office of Gordon and Sarah Brown (OOGASB), for example, which has generated hundreds of thousands of pounds in recent years.

But a visit to the OOGASB web site will tell you very little about how this charitable body is run in a practical sense - how it raises and spends its funds.

Now I'm not a particularly nosy person, yet I would still like to have answers to the following questions:

1 Who does OOGASB employ?
2 How much does OOGASB spend on salaries?
3 What are the salaries of OOGASB's senior officials 
4 What percentage of OOGASB funds are spent on expenses?
5 What is the breakdown of OOGASB expenses and to whom are they paid?
6 What are the major sources of funds as far as OOGASB donations are concerned?
7 How does OOGASB spend its funds and what are the charity's governance arrangements? 

But for some reason this kind of information is not explained on the OOGASB web site - or made available in some other readily accessible way.  

So if anyone has an answer to any of these questions, I'd be delighted to hear the details - or where to find out more information.