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.

Richard Godfrey is CEO at Rocketmakers, investor, entrepreneur and technology innovator with a proven history of delivering major systems via Rocketmakers, Microsoft and Deloitte over the last 30+ years. Richard holds the Queens Award for Enterprise: Innovation and Lifetime Achievement.

Based in Bath, Rocketmakers is a team of software developers that build innovative software, apps and websites for startups, scale-ups and large organisations who are working to have a positive impact in the world. Richard shares the Rocketmakers journey to tech for good, becoming B-Corp certified and hopes for the South-West as a centre for tech for good.

John Bradford is the inspiration behind Digilocal charity initiative supporting coding sessions for young people from 8 years old + across Bristol. Digilocal also refurbish and redeploy laptops to those most in need.

In this episode John shares with us the inspiration for launching Digilocal in particular to tackle the diversity in tech agenda to provide access to learning spaces for those most excluded from access to technology. John explains how the Digilocal coding clubs run, the role of volunteer mentors and the impact for young people. https://digilocal.org.uk/

Ed Howarth is Programme Delivery Lead for Power to Change supporting community businesses. In particular Ed has championed the need for strengthening community businesses through digital.

Ed was co-founder of Tech for Good Bristol which was subsequently merged to become and Tech for Good South West.

Follow Ed's Medium page for regular work notes and further discussion of the topics raised during our conversation.

Emma Millington is owner of the agency Modular Digital, a UX design and build agency based in Bristol focused on charity websites and apps.

Emma discusses her focus on learning, relationships and building skills in charities as they build their digital products.

Will Foulkes is Co-Founder and CEO of Stabiliti. Stabiliti is a globally scaleable carbon removal solution. Full end-to-end transparency across carbon offset lifecycle, live transactional offsetting accurate to the gram.

''We're the first generation to feel the effect of climate change and the last to do anything about it.'' Will talks about climate, carbon offsetting and the immediate changes we ALL need to make. Also his journey from Lawyer to Tech Founder and his secret weapon...