Prospectus Podcast

How can organisations facilitate change, both in methods and practically, to increase the representation of those with a disability on leadership teams in the charity sector and beyond? 

Listen to this podcast with Disability Rights CEO, Kamran Mallick, and Steph Cutler, Founder of Making Lemonade, an organisation devoted to facilitating disability confident and inclusive workplaces. Hosted by Prospectus Associate Directors, Linda Griffiths and Jess Stockford.

Find out how both the British Museum and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra were able to both retain members and grow their potential membership bases throughout the pandemic to date. Senior Consultant at Prospectus, Matt Till, speaks with Claire Byfield, Membership Engagement Manager at The British Museum, and Eve Vines, Memberships and Appeals Manager at City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, about how they coped during the height of the pandemic, about increasing digital content and the opportunities this brought for new audiences, around the inclusion of less digitally-savvy members, and both their lessons learnt and plans as restrictions lift across the UK.

In conversation with Prospectus Executive Chair, David Gold, we're joined by the former Editor of Third Sector magazine, Stephen Cook, to talk about his recently released book co-authored with Tania Mason, 'What have charities ever done for us?'.
He talks of his experiences in the sector, how charities are often seen as either heroes or villains with little inbetween, shining examples from the sector in response to the Covid pandemic, and other themes from his book. A must-listen for anybody in the sector.

This podcast features Michael Ighodaro, program manager with AVAC and Board Member of Global Black Gay Men Connect, organisers of Global Black Pride. Find out why he received a special honour from President Obama, about the importance of Black Pride as a standalone celebratory event and what we can all do to create more inclusive workplaces and societies, in conversation with Prospectus Managing Director, Borge Andreassen.

As part of Learning Disability Week 2021, Managing Director, Andy Tonner, talks in this podcast to Shaun Webster MBE about what he enjoys and contributes as a trustee of Keyring, a national charity supporting people with learning disabilities, as well as what he thinks organisations could do to onboard and support people with a learning disability onto their board. 

Shaun is a board member at health and social care charity, Keyring, and an international project worker for human rights charity, Change, where he works on projects tackling issues experienced by people with a learning disability and autism, raising awareness and changing attitudes to stereotypes. Shaun uses his own experiences growing up with learning disabilities to improve the lives of others, providing training and support to those with learning disabilities and their families around  mental health, employment, parenting, sex and relationships and LGBTQ issues. He was awarded an MBE in 2015 for providing these services.

Florence Miller, Director at the EFN, talks about environmental funding, what the impact of the pandemic will be on future funding in the area and around environmental-led solutions for our future Earth in this enthralling chat with Adam Allnutt, Senior Fundraising Recruiter at Prospectus.

In this panel discussion, recorded to celebrate International Women’s Day, we discuss female leadership in sport with Tove Okunniwa, CEO of London Sport, Sarah Mortiboys, Managing Director, Dallaglio RugbyWorks, and Stephanie Hilborne, Chief Executive, Women in Sport.

We look at how their careers have developed in a traditionally male-dominated sector, the emotional change that needs to take place to bring about greater quality and diversity, and their vision for the future of female leadership and the next generation of female leaders.

Principal Consultant at Prospectus Executive Search, Lottie Wihl, interviews Dr. Ambreen Shah, a newly appointed Trustee at the Smallwood Trust around female representation and diversity on Boards and her Board shadowing scheme, as part of celebrations for International Women's Day.

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In the seventh episode of our leadership podcast series we are joined by Pat Armstrong OBE, Chief Executive of ACOSVO, the Association of Chief Officers of Scottish Voluntary Organisations. In this episode Pat talks to us about the power of peer support, good practice sharing and leadership development and growing ACOSVO into a key player in the Scottish voluntary sector with a growing membership of over 500+ leaders. 

In the sixth episode of our leadership podcast series, we are joined by Mark Williams, Founder and Chief Executive of Heart n Soul. In this episode, Mark speaks to us about how they’ve adapted to the new external environment and how if we want to get better as a society we need all voices and all perspectives to be heard, celebrated and understood.