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OSCAR at 25

1st March 2025 marks OSCAR's 25th birthday. Mike Frith, OSCAR's Founding Director, takes stock at our Silver Jubilee.

OSCAR at 25
Published 26 February 2025 Updated 5 February 2026 By Mike Frith

1st March 2025 marks OSCAR's 25th birthday. Mike Frith, OSCAR's Founding Director, takes stock at our Silver Jubilee.

Here are the stats after 25 years:

The Impact Online

  • Days online: 9,130
  • Visits to website: 5 million
  • Page views: 16 million
  • Jobs/opportunities advertised: 21,000
  • Events advertised: 4,800

The Impact Offline

  • Days spent advising and resourcing at events: 700
  • People helped at these events: 18,000
  • Jobs/opportunities advertised at events: 2,500
  • People who have attended our training courses: 1,700

The OSCAR Website Today

  • Over 4,315 pages (URLs), 14,000 external links and 5,000 database records including:
    • 350 Opportunities
    • 830 Mission agencies
    • 891 Christian support services
    • 1,162 Churches
    • 1,180 Resources
    • 51 Events
    • 233 Articles
    • 88 Book reviews/features
  • Over 2,700 subscribers on our email lists
  • 1,900 followers on Facebook, 2,178 on Twitter, 193 members on LinkedIn and 534 followers on Instagram
  • 760 people in our online community, OSCARactive
  • Monthly - 38,000 website visits (24,000 unique) and 115,000 page views
  • Daily - 1,600 website visits and 4,200 page views (1 visitor every minute, 24/7)

See our previous 20th birthday article if you want to know more background.

Mike Frith

Mike Frith

Mike Frith is the Founding Director of OSCAR. Prior to starting OSCAR, he worked as a pilot/engineer with Mission Aviation Fellowship where he spent time living in the USA, France, Switzerland, Madagascar and Uganda. He has been involved in working with, supporting, training and resourcing cross-cultural workers for over 25 years. He is married to Cheryl and they have two grown up children, Joanna and Will. Mike is also General Secretary of COST, a trust that gives grants to mission volunteers.

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