Kate Welch: resilience, sustainability and social enterprise success

Kate discusses filling the gap between market failure and public service delivery, positive cashflow for social enterprises, resilience and realistic financial planning, bidding for and winning contracts and more.

Steve Rimmer: Tickets for Good interview

Steve Rimmer is a serial social entrepreneur and co-founder and CEO of Tickets for Good. He joined me on my Business Live FM radio programme this morning for a thoroughly interesting discussion. You can listen to the podcast below. Steve covers: launching the Tickets for Good platform, now used by event organisers all over Sheffield […]

Kickov’s Al Daw and Lucy Findlay, Social Enterprise Mark – new radio show

This week’s radio show features live studio guest Al Daw and an interview with Lucy Findlay, founder and MD of Social Enterprise Mark CIC. Al discusses his unique immersive Soviet soccer experience, Kickov. Celebrating all nations in one city, the Kickov festival at Abbeydale Picture House starts on 14 June with a World Cup opening […]

“Kings” of the holiday sport camp: Richard Holmes interview

“I’m passionate about the value of sport and physical activity and for 25 years I’ve worked to get children active,” says Richard Holmes. Holmes is CEO of the not-for-profit Kings Foundation, which since inception in 1991 has worked with over 1.5 million children. It engages children to participate, “we are about developing a love for […]

Flourish and Zen – new interviews: Nickala Torkington and Nick Middleton

Nickala Torkington runs Flourish, a social enterprise which support women to create the change they see needed through peer learning, crowd sourcing, mentoring and investment. Nick Middleton is an innovator in golf coaching, equipment and technology whose approach has been described as revolutionary.

Jon Seaton, CEO, Twinkl and David Battle, NEX Exchange

Jon Seaton is co-founder of specialist online educational publisher, Twinkl. Launched in 2010, Twinkl received the Queen’s Award for Enterprise this week. David Battle of UK-regulated NEX Exchange is also interviewed in this week’s programme.

Jodie Marshall, A Mind Apart Theatre Company – interview

The founder and MD of a business which uses performing arts to “challenge, inspire, encourage and change lives,” discusses lessons learned, challenges faced, and biggest achievements in their 10 years of trading.

How a perspective change can be crucial for progress

Sometimes a perspective change what it takes to make upward progress – in business, and in climbing, as I found after falling off a rock face on Sunday.

New radio show: GDPR without Giving Dodgy Pros Riches

Dr. Heather Anson has extensive long-standing expertise in data protection and regulatory compliance. In this in-depth radio interview Heather runs through what you need to know (and what you need to do) when it comes to GDPR.

Sarah David: intentional leadership, positive habits, transformation and business books plus Dulma Clark

Anti-fragile Sarah David talks about intentional leadership, positive habits, supporting transformation and the business books she rates most highly; Dulma Clark runs Soul of Africa, which makes and sells “shoes that change lives.”