In this episode, our consultant Rachel Krengel speaks to Lindon Rankin, who is an organiser at the African ‘n’ Caribbean Wellbeing Group based in Southwark. Lindon’s is one of the many community groups we at SCA support.

In this podcast, Rachel talks to Lindon about his journey into community organising, his experiences of organising during the pandemic and how he believes grassroots groups can structure and govern themselves for maximum impact.

In this podcast, speak to Amy Hulme, Senior Consultancy Manager at The Social Change Agency and fair pay campaigner, who reflects on her time campaigning for the Living Wage.

She shares her journey into activism and discusses how to build a successful strategy, movement-building misconceptions and dealing with the slow pace of corporate behaviour change as a campaigner.

In this podcast, speak to Mita Desai, programme manager for the Young Trustees Movement.

She shares her journey into activism and discusses how to build a successful strategy, movement-building misconceptions and balancing the need to lead with the need to let go of control.

This is part 2 of a two-part interview featuring Brian Young, the Executive Director of Action Network in conversation with Betsy, our principal director.

Action Network is a non-profit dedicated to providing cutting edge technology to the progressive movement.

As we record this, we’re facing the corona pandemic induced lockdown and Betsy and Brian reflect on ways technology can bring communities together, asking how to foster connections between people when contact is off the cards. And how to make the brilliant work of community groups responding to the Covid-19 pandemic easier?

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Hosts: Betsy Dillner and Kate Edwards
Guest: Brian Young
Producer: Maria Mancuso
Theme music by Loyalty Freak Music

This is part 1 of a two-part interview featuring Brian Young, the Executive Director of Action Network in conversation with Betsy, our principal director.

Action Network is a non-profit dedicated to providing cutting edge technology to the progressive movement.

Brian discusses how to build power between people, rather than their online profiles.

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Hosts: Betsy Dillner and Kate Edwards
Guest: Brian Young
Producer: Maria Mancuso
Theme music by Loyalty Freak Music

In this episode, we're sitting down with Hannah Paterson a Churchill Fellow exploring participatory grant-making.

Participatory grant-making (PGM) is a means of putting funding decisions into the hands of those affected by the decisions. Done right, it can fundamentally shift power blurring the traditional roles of ‘funder’ and ‘grantee’.

Hannah will be running a session on PGM at our ‘Losing Control in funding and commissioning event’ on the 4th March 2020. It will be a day of honest conversations with funders, grantmakers and grantees looking at how we should be innovating to better address the social challenges we face today.

Find out more here: https://www.losingcontrol.org/programme-funding-commissioning-2020/

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Host: Kate Edwards
Guest: Hannah Paterson
Producer: Maria Mancuso
Theme music by Loyalty Freak Music

In this episode, we chat with Uma Mishra-Newbery, Executive Director of Women’s March Global, to talk through some of the challenges inherent in the funding sector and the opportunities that lie in changing the traditional approach.

Uma is running a session at our ‘Losing Control in funding and commissioning event’ on the 4th March 2020. It will be a day of honest conversations with funders, grantmakers and grantees looking at how we should be innovating to better address the social challenges we face today.

Uma’s session is on ‘Funding movements and networks, not people and projects'. Find out more here: https://www.losingcontrol.org/losing-control-in-funding-commissioning/

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Host: Esther Foreman
Guest: Uma Mishra-Newbery
Producer: Maria Mancuso
Theme music by Loyalty Freak Music

In this episode, we chat to Jason Foo, CEO of BBD Perfect Storm, a ‘brand and cultural transformation agency’ who have put purpose at the heart of the work they do.

Foo talks about appetite for social change in the business sector and the scope for social impact.

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Host: Kate Edwards
Guest: Jason Foo
Producer: Maria Mancuso
Theme music by Loyalty Freak Music

In this episode, we caught up with Jo Wells, director of the Blagrave Trust and founding funder of the Young Trustees Movement, which brings together a number of organisations with the aim of doubling the number of young people serving on charity sector boards over the next five years.

Jo talks to us about her decision to get behind The Young Trustees Movement, why it is so necessary for the future of charity governance and what it means to take a systemic approach that puts young people at the heart of driving change.

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Host: Mita Desai
Guest: Jo Wells
Producer: Maria Mancuso
Theme music by Loyalty Freak Music

In this episode, we speak with Tor Evans, the senior external relations manager for the Roundhouse who also sits on the Young Trustees Movement advisory board.

The Roundhouse has been a leading voice in the push to recruit young trustees. They are trailblazers who have had young trustees for over a decade and even created a guide to youth governance in collaboration with the Arts Council.

Tor shares some practical tips for how organisations can recruit young trustees in a meaningful way.

Download a copy of the Roundhouse Youth Governance Guide here: https://www.roundhouse.org.uk/about-us/our-work-with-young-people/youth-governance/

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Host: Mita Desai
Guest: Tor Evans
Producer: Maria Mancuso
Theme music by Loyalty Freak Music