Transforming Our Futures

In this Podcast interview with Perry Walker we discuss how local authorities can set up a number of deliberative democracy projects like citizen assemblies citizen juries and other forms democracy by dialogue.

Perry is a Fellow of the New Economic Foundation and Involve. He has spent the last 20 years developing tools that allow people to “do democracy.” Perry with others has developed Talk Shop whose mission is to invigorate democracy by involving ordinary people in informed convocations that enable them to have greater influence over the decisions that affect them

In this Podcast we talk to Penny Power OBE who started Ecademy the first scoop network for business people. It became very successful but ran into problems with the economic crash and when Linkedin Started up.

Although having achieved an OBE, Penney found her self worth and self esteem challenged and then had to start anew and had to reassess her life and her goals. In this webinar we will discuss the journey she went through.

In this Podcast we interview Louis Bamber of the liveyourlifdroptheknife campaign. Live your life drop the knife was founded in Runcorn in response to rising violent crime and knife crime against residents of Halton. The campaign hopes to educate young people that its not OK to carry weapons, that its OK to run away and that there is always an alternative option – to Live Your Life and Drop The Knife!

In this Podcast we interview Mark Meacher on the importance of interfaith dialogue in the Borough and some of the efforts that he and others are involved in to bring people together of all faiths and none.

We discuss the role of faith in society and indeed in politics, their up and coming interfaith festival and the interfaith initiative to confront the international arms trade.

Mark is a Minister in the London Borough of Enfield working with a number of churches and with his wife Melanie believes in the importance of enabling and promoting civil society.

In this Podcast Hannah Dyson speaks to Daniel Allen from Feed Up Warm Up, a homeless charity in Hertfordshire. Daniel is a DJ, a councillor, dad of seven and star of Marrying Mum and Dad on CBBC.

Daniel tells us why he got involved with the charity, why Grace the van is so important and how everyone in society can play a role in lifting someone from the depths of despair back onto their feet.

In this Podcast, Katy Davies interviews local author Jay Hollis about his book Haunted Enfield, which includes some of the most well known ghost stories in Enfield.

In this Podcast we interview Julia Daniel on Credit Unions, what they are and how they promote fair finance. North London Credit Union is a not–for-profit financial co-operative established in 1994.

They are owned and controlled by their members, managed and staffed by local people and have a strong voluntary element They believe that everyone deserves appropriate, fair financial products that meet their needs and improve their financial well-being.

In this Podcast we talk to Brian Lewis who runs an enterprising cafe called Mytime and who is passionately interested in high street regeneration.

He discusses how the High Street can change in an age of online shopping and large corporations through creating public space and where the High Street is not just a retailing outlet but one that delivers services, engagement and advice

In this Podcast Nerina Finetto and Francis Sealey talk with Rickard Ydrenäs about how Europe views there British General Election result and what impact it will have in the coming decade Founder of the pod cast "Brexitpodden" - a pod cast about Brexit & EU" and the podcast "Tullpodden" - a podcast about customs and trade.

Richard is a political scientist, journalist and communications specialist with expertise on the European Union's work, the EU's legislative process and financial markets regulation.

Nerina Finetto and Francis Sealey are the co-producers of the Conversations Across Borders series of which this is one episode.

In this Podcast Barbara Ball from ASEND talks about schools, exclusion and mental health. She also tells about the difficulty in dealing with the different authorities and the important need for join up working and developing a strategy that involves all the stakeholders concerned.