Episode 5 of our Founding Sponsor Mini Series talking to the founding sponsors of the Tech4Good South West relaunch, to explore their interest in tech for good and their hopes and ambitions for the TechforGood South West network.

This episode is in conversation with Natalie Luckham, founder of Naturally Social, and Wiltshire Digital Drive.

"People and planet can work alongside profit. It doesn't have to be one or the other or sector by sector."

“I think tech for good is a huge. It's been gaining so much momentum recently, but you know, we are living in a digital era ultimately, and tech can offer so many answers to so many of the world's problems that we really need to look closer at how we're taking responsibility for that.”

Episode 4 of our Founding Sponsor mini series talking to the founding sponsors of the Tech4Good South West relaunch, to explore their interest in tech for good and their hopes and ambitions for the TechforGood South West network.

This episode is in conversation with Ben Heasman, Product Director and Trustee Director at Torchbox.

“We're just really excited about the prospect of bringing positive change to the world through technology, through wider representation in the industry, through focus on accessibility and sustainability of the products we build. Tech for good for us is really tied in closely with doing business better."

The third of 6 episodes talking to the founding sponsors of the Tech4Good South West relaunch, to explore their interest in tech for good and their hopes and ambitions for the TechforGood South West network.

This episode is in conversation with Josh Simpkins , co-founder of Future Talent Group and a bronze sponsor of Tech4Good South West.

"I think for us as recruiters, there's an opportunity, you know, one of our strengths probably is our network and the people that we work with, the businesses we work with. It feels like now is an amazing time that we can get those people involved in it."

"There's a really big opportunity to just level up industry standards in what businesses expect from their partners and what overall market standards look like in terms of taking a proactive approach to support in wider nonprofit and charity activities. "

The second of 6 episodes talking to the founding sponsors of the Tech4Good South West relaunch, to explore their interest in tech for good and their hopes and ambitions for the TechforGood South West network.

This episode is in conversation with Joanna Randall, Founding Director of Purplefish and a bronze sponsor of Tech4Good South West.

"I'm really excited about with Tech for Good Southwest is that we can come together from all aspects and all areas of life."

"Whilst growth, profit -making, investment, that's all good because it does benefit economies and society as a whole, I don't think we can be naive to think that we are benefiting everybody. With all of this incredible amount of skills, talent, knowledge, research, all of this amazing work that's going on in the region, we must make sure that we're thinking about what benefits we can bring to everybody."

The first of 6 episodes talking to the founding sponsors of the Tech4Good South West relaunch, to explore their interest in tech for good and their hopes and ambitions for the TechforGood South West network.

This episode is in conversation with Nathan Baranowski, Managing Director of Digital Wonderlab and our first silver sponsor of Tech4Good South West.

"The opportunity for Tech4Good South West is to bring and bridge community, be that charity or actual communities together with business and enterprise to help to deliver real impact."

"The lovely thing about tech for good and particularly Tech4Good South West is it's perfectly a place to do pretty much anything, but it's only going to do those things if we come together."

In this episode we are in conversation with Julia Marshall-Wessendorf, founder of the WaveSix holistic health tracker app.

The WaveSix health app tracks all aspects of your lifestyle, health and wellbeing to provide insights on what’s having a positive or negative impact on your health and happiness. The app has recently launched for both Apple and Android.

Julia shares her inspiration for WaveSix, and her own lived experience of managing the impact of long term illness and how she has taken her insights forward to filling a gap in the market for health trackers.

As a female founder, Julia shares her business journey - how she has funded the business, the networks, and communities that have really supported her along the way and importantly how to prioritise your time and manage business growth sustainably.

Take a listen to this joint episode as both funder and grantee explore the important of digital funding to strengthen sustainability of community business.

Power to Change are funders of a Powering Up programme, a 12-month funding programme to support community businesses in England that need capacity strengthening.

In this episode we are joined by Sona Mahtani, Community Connector for Power to Change, and one of their programme grantees, St Werburghs City Farm. Nestled in the heart of Bristol, St Werburghs City Farm is an integral part of the local community, strengthening connections between land, animals and people for more than 40 years.

St Werburghs City Farm offer a number of therapeutic services, adult engagement support and group skills building opportunities.

We hear from Alex Bowsher, the Volunteer Manager as he reflects on the process to introduce a volunteer management system for the organisation - from managing data, to engaging leadership and volunteers through the implementation process.

Chris Newton is VP of engineering at Immersive Labs, a cyber security company based in Beautiful Bristol. Immersive Labs are one of the South West’s biggest sucuess stories and to date they have raised $189 million, employing over 300 folk across the UK, US and EMEA. Their technology is already helping over 300 enterprises around the world and around 5,000 labs are completed every single day.

Hannah Smith shares her journey to digital sustainability, representing the Green Web Foundation, and founding Green Tech South West - a community championing the application of tech in the South West of England to heal Climate Change.

Lucy Paine talks to us about what to expect from this year's Bath Digital Festival. We discuss he digital divide, which is this year's Tech for Good theme at the festival and we talk more widely about her work with TechSpark to strengthen the tech community.