The Power of Impact

By David Simmons

Interviews with Christian charity leaders, asking them how they transform the lives of the people they affect - and how they know it.

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The Power of Impact episodes:

June 04, 2024 Gemma Gillard: Storytelling for Hope
Gemma Gillard runs Truth Be Told, an organisation which works in Care Homes across England, by taking children in to bring stories and songs of hope to the residents.

You can find out more about her organisation here:
https://truthbetold.org.uk/

Gemma also mentions The Cinnamon Network. You can find out more about Cinnamon here:
https://cinnamonnetwork.co.uk/
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28min
May 28, 2024 Philip Sital Singh: What is Our Impact?
In this episode, I meet Philip Sital-Singh, one of the directors of Eido Research.
Eido are an organisation dedicated to helping charities and organisations to prove their effectiveness through research, and impact evaluation.
You can find out more by visiting their website here: https://www.eidoresearch.com/
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43min
May 21, 2024 Shola Oladipo: Food for Purpose
Today's episode features Shola Oladipo, CEO Of Food for Purpose, who works with Black Majority churches (in the first instance) in the sphere of food, nutrition and wellbeing.
You can learn all about Food for Purpose HERE: https://www.foodforpurpose.org/
and feel free to watch Shola's interview on TBN TV with Matt Parfitt (from Episode 2) HERE:
https://watch.tbn.uk/watch/vod/52047951/food-for-purpose
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33min
May 14, 2024 Matt Parfitt: Transformative Business
In this episode, I interview Matt Parfitt of Grace Enterprises, Nottingham.
His business enables people to gain employment who otherwise would never have the chance to move forward in life.
You can find out more here: https://linktr.ee/graceents
and you can watch all of the episodes of his TV show on TBN here: https://watch.tbn.uk/shows/all-in
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33min
May 07, 2024 Lloyd Cooke: A Life Dedicated to One Community
In this episode I interview Lloyd Cooke, a prominent and enterprising church leader, who has dedicated his whole life to serving his local community of Stoke-on-Trent.
Find out all about Saltbox in Stoke-on-Trent here: https://saltbox.org.uk/
Find out all about Stoke City FC (if you must!) here: https://www.stokecityfc.com/
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46min
October 31, 2023 Bernice Hardie: The Power of Integration
In this episode, Bernice Hardie explains how Wave for Change began, and her passion to see people of all ages and abilities mixing together; when the focus is not on the difference, but on the common ground they all share.
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26min
October 24, 2023 Tina English: Reaching the Forgotten Ones
Tina English describes the passion which drove her to create Embracing Age, a charity which encourages churches to work with care homes to reach out to isolated older people.
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25min
October 17, 2023 Avril McIntyre: Turning Community Outreach On Its head
Avril has led several local charities and community projects in the Borough of Barking and Dagenham and beyond. Here, she discusses the nature of community delivery, where the participants are the ones who help to determine the direction of the work.
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33min
October 10, 2023 Ruth Rice: Creating a Unique Movement
When Ruth Rice experienced personal meltdown several years ago, part of her response was to set up a shared space where people could come and simply be themselves, without any pressure to perform or even to participate. The charity has become a movement, and has replicated many times in locations across the UK.
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37min
October 03, 2023 Henry Wilson: From a Dream to Transformation
Ten years ago, Henry Wilson had a strange dream which woke him up. It was about changing local lives in his local town of Haverhill in Suffolk, so he started out tentatively, giving debt advice. It soon expanded into an organisation which encompasses the whole town, thousands of lives have been affected, and he outlines his key three strategic plans to take REACH Community Projects into the future.
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33min

FAQs about The Power of Impact:

How many episodes does The Power of Impact have?

The podcast currently has 13 episodes available.