Business Live: for curious entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurs

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Business Live: for curious entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurs

Leaders of impact-creating businesses and social enterprises share their practical tips and stories. Be inspired, intrigued and amazed, get advice to help your values-driven business thrive and benefit from candid conversations about how other leaders overcame challenges and built their businesses and social enterprises. New episode every Friday here and on Sheffield Live FM radio.

  1. Alex Cousins, Wolven Crafts and Ed's Workshop: gamer on a roll with startup support

    11/22/2024

    Alex Cousins, Wolven Crafts and Ed's Workshop: gamer on a roll with startup support

    Alex Cousins makes dice trays from reclaimed materials. Every one is different, they can be engraved or embossed and feature bespoke materials and finishing.I popped down to Ed’s Workshop, a wonderful workplace and community of makers in Sheffield to meet Alex and learn more about his new business, Wolven Crafts.He tells me how, when playing Dungeons and Dragons, dice often fall off the table – so a dice tray is invaluable. He's used a £500 grant to help bring his business vision to life. Ale...

    23 min
  2. Turning streets into power stations with Barry James, Green Streets Club

    10/11/2024

    Turning streets into power stations with Barry James, Green Streets Club

    Many households want to install renewable energy technology – but the market doesn''t serve them well, says serial innovator Barry James.But his "Green Streets Club" has already enabled homes on his own residential street in Sheffield to halve the cost of adoption of solar and battery.Barry explains how they've done it – and other households can too.He also covers his plans for a UK-wide network of Green Streets Hubs, social enterprises (community interest companies) that he says would suppor...

    31 min
  3. Storytelling for small business owners and social entrepreneurs with Rebecca Collins

    09/27/2024

    Storytelling for small business owners and social entrepreneurs with Rebecca Collins

    Rebecca Collins is the Brand Coach at The Conscious Communication School, which she launched after becoming burnt out from 10 years in the mainstream media.Now she helps business owners and social entrepreneurs craft powerful brand strategies and learn how to tell powerful stories which resonate with their target audience.In today's episode Rebecca walks through exercises to help you find your big bang moment, covering her Breakthrough Brand Story Method and "five Cs" of mapping out your stor...

    58 min
  4. Dr Susy Ridout, Lotus Collaborations – a vision where Autistic and Neurodivergent Victim-Survivors of Sexual Violence are believed and supported

    04/26/2024

    Dr Susy Ridout, Lotus Collaborations – a vision where Autistic and Neurodivergent Victim-Survivors of Sexual Violence are believed and supported

    Lotus Collaborations is a Community Interest Company, set up to address the needs of autistic survivors of sexual violence and sexual abuse.Its directors are Neurodivergent Survivors and allies with experience in accessing and providing specialist support and mentoring to victim-survivors of sexual violence."There's big gap in understanding among service providers and the general public," says director, Dr Susy Ridout, “and our needs very often don't get addressed. The autistic vo...

    26 min
  5. How to be an HR hero, create social value and LOVE your volunteers with Diane Offers, YWCA Yorkshire

    02/16/2024

    How to be an HR hero, create social value and LOVE your volunteers with Diane Offers, YWCA Yorkshire

    YWCA Yorkshire supports over 250 young women, children and families to build better futures. They may be homeless, escaping abuse, or in financial or other difficulties. It runs programmes to assist them in living happy, fulfilled and independent lives.A charity, it has operated locally since the 1940s. This Valentine's Day it launched a campaign to "spread the love and word" about volunteering. So I invited Diane Offers, YWCA's HR Manager, on air.. She covers:YWCA Yorkshire's range of accomm...

    27 min
  6. Nurturing community assets into sustainable and impactful enterprises with Helen Allen, Community Catalysts and Harry Clarkson, Speakup

    01/12/2024

    Nurturing community assets into sustainable and impactful enterprises with Helen Allen, Community Catalysts and Harry Clarkson, Speakup

    Welcome to episode 393 of Business Live, for purpose-driven entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurs. When Rotherham wanted to transform its adult social care offer for people with learning disabilities and autistic people and offer personalised services that people wanted, local social and micro-enterprises proved crucial. Helen Allen and Harry Clarkson tell me how.Community Catalysts (www.communitycatalysts.co.uk) is a thriving community interest company, running since 2010 and operating acro...

    58 min
  7. Profitable, Productive and Pioneering: why Social Enterprise is 'Mission Critical' with Dean Hochlaf PLUS lots of new funding

    12/11/2023

    Profitable, Productive and Pioneering: why Social Enterprise is 'Mission Critical' with Dean Hochlaf PLUS lots of new funding

    Social enterprises ploughed over a billion pounds into their social and environmental objectives last year. They make a vital contribution to the UK's economy, society and natural environment, as Dean Hochlaf describes today.An estimated 131,000 social enterprises in the UK collectively turn over £78 billion, representing over 3% of GDP. Many operate in the most deprived areas of the UK. They employ around 2.3 million people and made £1.2 billion in profit in the last financial year,&nb...

    26 min
  8. Open Access Factory is Makers' Paradise: Arnaud Nichols and Al Parra, BLOQS

    12/01/2023

    Open Access Factory is Makers' Paradise: Arnaud Nichols and Al Parra, BLOQS

    When I heard about the UK's first open-access factory, offering "pay-as-you go accessibility" so entrepreneurs and makers can access state-of-the-art light industrial equipment I was intrigued.Originally established in 2012, its co-founders call it the "missing link for solopreneurs and SMEs seeking to bridge the gap between start-up and producing at scale."And when I learned it was a social enterprise, with sustainability "designed in" – well, we had to get its co-founders in for a rad...

    48 min
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Leaders of impact-creating businesses and social enterprises share their practical tips and stories. Be inspired, intrigued and amazed, get advice to help your values-driven business thrive and benefit from candid conversations about how other leaders overcame challenges and built their businesses and social enterprises. New episode every Friday here and on Sheffield Live FM radio.

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