Cutting Through The Nonsense

How to pivot in a world of shrinking traditional funding.What a consultant observes in the charity and social enterprise sector.The importance (or not) of walking the walk as a third sector leader who moves into consultancy.In this podcast with Jodie Marshall from Mantle, Jodie shares her extraordinary story of developing a social enterprise barely out of her teens and how her desire to create a trading organisations rather than a charity has shaped her career since then.Thank you to Jodie for

Moving into new geographies is one way of finding it. Developing into a new area for a relatively small or young social enterprise can often appear unachievable or just too risky. In this podcast with Christy Acton from Standing Tall, Christy tells us how they approach moving into new geographies with their mission to provide good jobs and safe homes to get and keep people off the street - a place bursting with talent. Thank you to Christy Acton for sharing so openly his business model, purpose and

Focusing on the needs of the business and ensuring, as a social enterprise, that the business achieves on its own merits, are just some of Matt’s many achievements.In this podcast Matt talks us through the businesses that sit under Grace Enterprises and his commitment to creating viable commercial entities - that at the same time change lives.‘Biscuits that change lives’ is perhaps an easy sell, but Matt has taken the business from strength to strength (with a new bakery just opened) thanks to both

It’s never too soon to think about sustainability. Restrictedincome is, well, very restricting and can make an organisation bend in ways that don’t play to its strengths So looking ahead as a young organisation, whilst scary, can be exciting, motivating and invigorating.In this podcast Chantelle Tyrrell, CEO of Social Moments inNorfolk, looks ahead to diversifying income for reasons of sustainability as well as the exciting opportunities available. Whilst only two years old, Chantelle is already

This is the first podcast from Rebecca White of Hasler-White Inclusive Facilitation kindly hosted by Future Radio. Every episode, Rebecca, with her own stories of founding and running a successful social enterprise, will be interviewing guests to bring hope, ideas and inspiration to people running charities and social enterprises locally.  Episode 1 features Lucy Parish, formerly of The Feed CIC, and Rebecca discussing endings, how they knew it was time to leave their respective organisations and