Alistair Wickens is the CEO of Goscombe Group Limited. He is the founder behind one of the UK's most innovative housing companies, pioneering ways to leverage home-building as a vehicle to deliver powerful social impact, whilst addressing housing inequality using an innovative funding model originally deployed by TOMS® Shoes.

Mark Ladyman is the Assitant Director of Economic Growth at the Darlington Borough Council. In this episode, he shares great insights about Darlington's regeneration, his career, his thoughts on the recent crisis and how public and private partnerships can work more closely together.