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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.
Episodes
209 episodes
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 t...
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Season 12
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Episode 5
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30:36
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 stra...
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Season 12
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Episode 4
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58:13
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...
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Season 12
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Episode 3
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26:09
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 independe...
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Season 12
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Episode 2
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27:19
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 ...
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Season 12
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Episode 1
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57:56
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 estimate...
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Season 11
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Episode 13
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25:57
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-foun...
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Season 11
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Episode 12
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47:42
How to power-up your video content with Joe Palmer – plus new funding for businesses, social enterprises and universities and a new LGBTQIA+ networking event
Many businesses make the same basic mistake when they want to make video content, says today's guest Joseph Palmer of Open House Pictures. His simple tip will help anyone wanting to use films to communicate, whether you want to work with ...
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Season 11
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Episode 11
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19:05
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How to get a job in the games industry with Eva Kioseoglou and Ruth Dickens
"I ended up being offered a permanent role as a junior programmer which is a dream come true – and I worked on an awesome game which is actually my favourite of all the current projects at Sumo."Many people would love to work in the gam...
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Season 11
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Episode 9
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24:43
Leadership and culture lessons from status-quo smashing CEO Naomi Hulston
Naomi Hulston has experienced "pretty much every role" in her 21 years working for Catch22.The social business has been around for 200 years. It delivers more than 120 public services that meet local needs and support individuals within...
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Season 11
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Episode 8
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26:49
A criminal career with Rebecca Collins and Adrian Hobart, Hobeck Books
Today's guests have bumped off nearly 300 people through their business.But they're not career criminals. Adrian Hobart and Rebecca Collins run Hobeck Books, a leading family-run independent publisher of award-winning crime, thriller, m...
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Season 11
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Episode 7
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46:08
Overcoming barriers is social enterprise's business: Rachel Law, PossAbilities CIC
PossAbilities CIC provides services for people with learning disabilities, people with dementia and young people leaving care.Formed in 2014, PossAbilities has increased staff from 220 to more than 600, had eight consecutive years of gr...
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Season 11
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Episode 6
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27:48
How fair finance boosts businesses, supercharges social enterprises and helps households with Eleanor Russell
Do we want to live in places full of thriving businesses and social enterprises, and where people don't get trapped by exploitative lenders and loan sharks? Sounds good to me.Eleanor Russell is policy and programmes lead at Responsible ...
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Season 11
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Episode 5
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41:47
Understanding money and building better financial habits with Claer Barrett
For a long time Claer Barrett vowed never to write a book about money. Now the award-winning financial journalist and broadcaster, who frequently answers the public's money questions on ITV's Lorraine, LBC radio and the Financial Times' Money C...
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Season 11
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Episode 4
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49:57
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Slashing greenhouse gas emissions and reducing carbon intensity with Alpkit CEO David Hanney
We can do it if we really want to: Alpkit is a business success story which has doubled employee numbers since last appearing on this programme while dramatically reducing its absolute emissions and carbon intensity."It's really positiv...
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Season 11
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Episode 3
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30:33
From PhD to CEO with Dr Kirsty Smitten, MetalloBio, addressing one of the biggest threats to global health
Dr Kirsty Smitten has gone from PhD Student to founder and CEO of MetalloBio Ltd: "I was writing my thesis while forming a company." Her firm is developing new compounds to address antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and is a spin-out from the Unive...
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Season 11
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Episode 2
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26:56
Jumpers for goalposts, social enterprise success and disability sport with Louis Speight, Omnis Circumvado CIC
It's three years since Louis Speight, a former men’s European record holder, was last on the programme.His social enterprise Omnis Circumvado CIC is a specialist sports coaching company which works with children, young people and adults...
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Season 11
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Episode 1
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51:25
Super Sheffield Independent and Social Enterprise Gift Guide PLUS New Funding
In today's show: cost of living support and new funding opportunities for businesses and social enterprises. And it's the 'season of goodwill' – can't we have goodwill all year round? – but a time when many love to give presents.It's a ...
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Season 10
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Episode 22
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20:51
A hotbed for tech startups: boosting investment, talent and ecosystem with Darren Balcombe, Team SY
Can you feel it? Can you hear it? Yes, it's the blistering, crackling heat from the South Yorkshire Tech 100 – the "hottest" startups and scaleups in the region, published today in a new ecosystem report.It lists the most successful tec...
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Season 10
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Episode 21
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23:21
How to reduce e-waste, address digital divides, be a better boss and adapt to new technology with Helen Milner and Stefan Stern
Today's guests won't just make you make you think, I hope they'll help you to act since both offer practical and immediate action points to build a better world and better businesses.The UK generates some of the highest amounts of e-was...
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Season 10
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Episode 20
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50:03
Printed By Us, Sheffield Credit Union and Fair Finance – social enterprise, high quality retail, job creation and financial inclusion
Terry Murphy runs Printed By Us, a social enterprise which sells t-shirts, prints, mugs, hoodies and other products, all featuring amazing designs by notable and up-and-coming artists.Terry was last on the show five years ago with colle...
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Season 10
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Episode 19
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53:30
New Funding for Businesses and Social Enterprises and a High Street Hero's Evergreen Advice
Every week on this show we try to highlight new grant and funding opportunities for businesses and social enterprises.Today (28 October 2022) we have details of 10 x £40,000 grants; funding streams with £8,000 and £18,000 awards; ...
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Season 10
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Episode 18
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35:37
What businesses and a new Government can do about poverty and how to boost "good" business - Helen Barnard
Most people in poverty in the UK are in working families. Four million workers live in poverty: their resources are well below their minimum needs.That means 'not being able to heat your home, pay your rent, or buy the essentials for yo...
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Season 10
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Episode 17
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35:44
Writer Akeem Balogun on Words, Vision and Sound, Okapi Books and the realm of the imagination
It can be unfair to quote a line from a writer's work out of context. But the words 'Truths are unpopular. Lies are famous' capture the weird maelstrom of social media posturing, fake news, politicians who'll promise whatever it tak...
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Season 10
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Episode 16
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36:58
A Rant about (De)Regulation, New Funding and Events, and Air Quality Entrepreneur Kate Barnard
All this talk about "slashing red tape" and a sudden zeal for deregulation as a magic bullet for growth made me climb aboard my soapbox.This episode starts with a rant and a reminder: regulation per se is no barrier to inclusive growth,...
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Season 10
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Episode 15
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41:26