We are joined by Wayne Murray, the founder of Humanity Squared, aspiring human and father focused on innovation, transformation and human-centred strategy to drive positive change. We talk lived experience, making it up as you go, quitting jobs in lockdown and the longest pier on the world.
Read MoreKenneth returns from a Table Tennis training camp for haloween as we dig up the Foreman Family history. Then three guests arrive who have a trick or two and treat us with a talk about mentoring and how it can be used to build confidence.
Read MoreIn this episode we talk to Eugenie Harvey, the Chief Executive of The Funding Network, a London-based charity that connects small non-profits and donors. We start with Eugenie's ill-fated comedy career before a parkrun love in and a discussion on Australian bushfires, the usual intro.
Read MoreWe all look on enviously as we hear about the Foreman household Air Conditioning dynasty before we’re joined by two guests representing the Raheem Sterling Foundation - a charity that envisions a world where young people will always have the support they need.
Read MoreIn the last five years, our guest has lived in mainland Greece, Serbia, and Bosnia and the refugee hotspot of the Greek Island Samos supporting people however she can. Though, she may need to head to Laos and support a generation of children whom Kenneth taught the alphabet.
Read MoreOur guest this week co-founded The Turner Kirk Trust in 2007 and since then has granted over £7million to charitable causes across the UK and the developing world. His achievements include a PhD in General Relativity, chairing numerous businesses and launching the UK’s first algo-hedge fund. The perfect match for your host’s combined four GCSEs, 400m swimming certificate and a culinary skills badge from Beavers.
Read MoreOur dream mentor is the intro subject this week as we reveal more about ourselves than those chosen. Then it’s into a chat with Leila Thomas on the organisation she founded and leads to provide young people with the aspirations, opportunity and skills to achieve their career goals.
Read MoreWe start this episode with unfulfilled dreams and unpublished logos. Kenneth picks up a role with the Newcastle Tourist Board whereas James is living out his Olympic dreams. Then it's over to Work for Good CEO, and closet McFly fan, Veronica Bamford-Deane to sell us sales fundraising.
Read MoreJimbo reveals how to blow your cover as a tourist whilst Kenneth is living his best life in our intro to digital-supremo, vinyl-fanatic and aspiring pub landlord, James Gadsby Peet. We talk about monetising cat gifs, the dawn of data analytics and timing your Phil Collins drum solo to perfection.
Read MoreAnne Aslett tells us how she started as a volunteer with a bold idea for a new fundraising venture before spending twenty years with and becoming CEO of the Elton John AIDS Foundation. An organisation which has saved the lives of over five million of the most marginalised people in the world.
Read MoreHe might be the Deputy General Secretary and Director of Communications and Research at Prospect, he may have been President of the NUS, he might be a trustee of Stonewall and a non-executive director at one of the UK’s largest community housing associations, you might even find him on Newsnight and ‘Reasons to be Cheerful’, but it’s his prestigious position as Head of PR for the British Kebab Awards which is what Kenneth and James really want to hear about.
Read MoreThis week starts with tales of crashed cars and car-crash fashion choices before we are joined by a pair who lived life in the fast lane. Our guests are a husband and wife team who have successfully transitioned their once corporate careers to now work with people in their mid-life to support their health and wellbeing following their own passion for this area.
Read MoreWe are joined by Helen Moulinos for this episode - a knowledgeable, passionate human rights expert and stir-fry aficionado. After growing up in the States she moved to the UK and now leads POhWER, the UK’s largest advocacy charity which upholds and protects the human rights of marginalised, vulnerable and excluded groups.
Read MoreWe’re chatting to Gillian about her impressive LinkedIn profile this week. From Livity, The Ministry of Sound and work with Adidas and Red Bull, to Director of Engagement at House of St. Barnabus, Commissioner for Diversity with the Mayor of London and a consultant for Culture 24, via music festivals from Manchester to Malawi.
Read MoreBen Greensmith, or Lord Chocolonely III as he’s known at work, is responsible for the sixth largest chocolate bar brand in the UK - Tony’s Chocolonely - and their mission to make chocolate free of child-labour and slavery (spoiler alert - not all confectionary brands adopt this approach).
Read MoreDressed to impress, Jake Mills joins us this week. As an award-winning stand-up comedian, mental health campaigner and charity CEO, Jake brings his story and the best nickname we’ve had for a while to this episode.
Read MoreWe are joined this week by the dynamic duo behind fundraising everywhere and fundraising everywhere +. With an ambition to change the world they connect and educate fundraisers, empowering them to do just that.
Read MoreIt’s been a while but we return with a conversation with Ashby Jenkins of Ashby Jenkins Recruitment. The fundraiser turned recruitment specialist set up her own company three years ago and talks us through the tips and tricks she has picked up for your next move, and how she’s negotiated the past two years as a business owner.
Read MoreThis episode features the CEO of the Football Foundation, Robert Sullivan. The former consultant, special adviser and Strategy Director at the FA began his new role in early 2020, deciding how to best invest in the grassroots game with funding from the government, the Football Association and the Premier League.
Read MoreOur guest this week is an award-winning mental health campaigner, film producer, public speaker, writer and vlogger. Jonny Benjamin was the star of an iconic mental health campaign, #FindMike - to reconnect with the man who had talked him out of jumping from a bridge in London six years earlier.
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