Cathy Benwell, founder of A Good Thing: ‘Every donation creates a relationship’

Good Leaders Podcast: Could every unwanted laptop, pillow or furniture item spark something bigger? A Good Thing’s co-founder Cathy Benwell talks to Tim West about how the social enterprise’s circular economy model turns would-be waste into social impact.

Two years ago, university graduate Solène Declas ditched business school to found Aibo, a platform that tackles loneliness by pairing young adults with elderly people looking for companionship. She shares the joys and challenges she faces as a young social entrepreneur at the very beginning of her journey.

Good Leaders: Creating a good place to work, balancing commercial acumen with social value, and why she relishes a crisis: this year’s SE100 Pioneer of the Future Award winner, Annabel Thomas MacGregor, who leads social enterprise nursery group Raised In, shares her leadership insights with Tim West.

Award-winning social entrepreneur Keely Dalfen talks to Tim West about how she leads anti-poverty charity the Brick with quiet determination: running a charity like a business, making brutal calls on money when needed – and putting the dignity of the people they support first and foremost. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of the Good Leaders podcast, SE100 award-winning social entrepreneur Georgina Wilson talks to Tim West about her journey, what drives her and how good leadership can multiply its impact by helping other leaders reach their full potential. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The world of business for good is complex and fast moving, and it can be challenging to keep up with the new ideas, technologies and innovations driving positive change. So at Pioneers Post, we’ve decided to call in the experts to help us – and you – to make sense of it all: welcome to the Good Experts Podcast.In episode four, First Nations Economics co-founder Shaun Cumming and tech ethicist James Gauci discuss how data about Indigenous communities gathered ethically will lead to more effective problem solving and greater impact.This episode was produced in partnership with Cadent, with support from Social Enterprise World Forum. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The world of business for good is complex and fast moving, and it can be challenging to keep up with the new ideas, technologies and innovations driving positive change. So at Pioneers Post, we’ve decided to call in the experts to help us – and you – to make sense of it all: welcome to the Good Experts Podcast.In episode three, James Gauci and Nikoline Arns, two tech for good pioneers, explore why small scale AI models can mitigate social and environmental harms and how open source technology can keep pace with Silicon Valley in episode three of the Good Experts podcast. This episode was produced in partnership with Cadent, with support from Social Enterprise World Forum. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

With new features and almost 20,000 UK venues on the app, Sociability wants to give people with accessibility considerations the information they need to have a good time, while making money for hospitality venues.This episode is part of a series featuring the extraordinary winners of the Cambridge Social Innovation Prize 2025, presented by the Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation and Trinity Hall Cambridge. The 2025 winners were interviewed for the Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation's Social Ideas podcast, which Pioneers Post is reproducing here as part of its media partnership to support the 2026 edition of the prize. Find out more, or apply for the Cambridge Social Innovation Prize 2026, here (deadline 17 April): https://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/centres/social-innovation/cambridge-social-innovation-prize/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Charlie Fraser, co-founder of The Entrepreneurial Refugee Network, explains how the social enterprise helps refugees in the UK rebuild their lives through entrepreneurship, the organisation's impact and how it aims to become majority refugee-led.This episode is part of a series featuring the extraordinary winners of the Cambridge Social Innovation Prize 2025, presented by the Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation and Trinity Hall Cambridge. The 2025 winners were interviewed for the Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation's Social Ideas podcast, which Pioneers Post is reproducing here as part of its media partnership to support the 2026 edition of the prize. Find out more, or apply for the Cambridge Social Innovation Prize 2026, here (deadline 17 April): https://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/centres/social-innovation/cambridge-social-innovation-prize/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

‘I believe in revolution. I believe in devolution,’ says Coffee Afrik co-founder Abdirahim Hassan. He tells us how he took an east London cafe from a startup to a 32-project enterprise taking a groundbreaking approach to tackling deeply embedded trauma. This episode is part of a series featuring the extraordinary winners of the Cambridge Social Innovation Prize 2025, presented by the Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation and Trinity Hall Cambridge. The 2025 winners were interviewed for the Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation's Social Ideas podcast, which Pioneers Post is reproducing here as part of its media partnership to support the 2026 edition of the prize. Find out more, or apply for the Cambridge Social Innovation Prize 2026, here (deadline 17 April): https://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/centres/social-innovation/cambridge-social-innovation-prize/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.