Transforming Our Futures

Benita Matofska in this Podcast tells us how  ‘Sharing change the world?’ By highlighting the myriad of ways Sharing is creating an impact, we help millions discover and participate in the Sharing Economy – a socioeconomic movement promoting the sharing of, and access to, resources, while putting people and planet first.

In this Podcast we talk to Elaine Graham Leigh from Extinction Rebellion and David Flint about the importance of local authorities declaring a climate emergency.

This podcast is an interview with James Cracknell of the Enfield Dispatch. James started the Dispatch about a year ago as a community newspaper in Enfield and here we ask him how it started, how it has developed and what he hopes for the future.

We also talk about the importance of community newspapers and social networks for information and engagement in the 21st century

In this Podcast we interview with Robin Chandler where we discuss present day identity politics and whether it is at odds with older views of race and class and with democratisation itself.

In this podcast we interview when we talk with Alison Gordon of Age UK Enfield. Age UK Enfield is an independent local charity.

They have been working in the local community to help older people for 30 years. They have 40 dedicated staff and over 100 volunteers helping us to deliver services and activities for older people in Enfield.

In this podcast we talk to Anita van Rossam about Ecocide where damage against our planet is considered a crime against humanity.

The late and remarkable Polly Higgins’ proposed to make ecocide the fifth Crime Against Peace. As an international crime alongside genocide, any entity or individual committing ecocide could be prosecuted by the International Criminal Court.

Jo’s father Sir Anthony Berry was killed in the bombing in the Grande Hotel in Brighton during a Conservative Party Conference. To try to understand this Jo sought out the perpetrator of that bombing, Patrick McGee when he was released from prison after the Good Friday Agreement.

Here we can listen to Jo’s story and how she believes by addressing our common humanity we can overcome even the most horrific of conflicts.

In this podcast we interview Amanda Bronkhorst where we discuss with her the social enterprise that she has established to develop an initiative that makes it simple for individuals, schools and businesses to collectively combat global warming.

In this podcast Paige Ballmi explains why she is campaigning to change the government’s spouse visa laws. As a result in December 2017 she was stood on a bridge over the A10 attempting to end her life.

Despite many efforts to communicate their errors to them, the Home Office refused to listen and take me seriously, knowing that I was a vulnerable young woman who just wanted my right to a family life. I was essentially punished for falling in love with a foreigner.

In this Podcast we talked to Suzanne Kelly from Stitch based on Green Lanes in Palmers Green. Stitch is an innovative enterprise to bring classes and crafts to the High Street.