Cutting Through The Nonsense

This is Cutting Through The Nonsense podcasts from Hasler-White Inclusive Facilitation. This podcast is for third, social and community sector leaders - with, at times, an East Anglian focus.The aim is to bring hope, inspiration and new ideas to the sector and its leaders.In an impossible climate for charities and social enterprises, there is a need for quality bite-sized information that is accessible, inclusive and not scary.It’s lonely and hard out there so in this podcast we will together rid the world, or at least this podcast, of acronyms, jargon and unnecessary negativity.

Cutting Through The Nonsense is a business podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 9 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  It’s Not a Charity Shop

  May 14, 202630 minS0

  <p>It was lovely having Sue Harris, founder and CEO of New-U on this podcast. Sue is a wonderfully humble and modest human being who has quietly worked relentlessly over the last decade to provide opportunities to young people in their shop in Castle Quarter in Norwich. </p><p>She describes it as a shop that happens to be a charity, with the emphasis on providing good work experiences.  This is instead of being a charity shop providing income for a charity doing something else entirely. </p><p>It’s a subtle distinction that we explore in this podcast and goes...

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  Impact is about more than Impact

  Apr 9, 202631 minS0

  <p>We covered a lot of ground in our thirty minutes, not least our time both being shaped by working in the Youth Offending Service (YOS) and the impact this had on us and our approach to youth work. </p><p>Both founding organisations because we thought we had some better ideas is not unfamiliar to social enterprise founders.  </p><p>What is less familiar is the journey Simon went on to get his MA at Cambridge University, (circumventing getting a first degree) that opened his eyes to the potential for evidence-based, technology-driven music education and meeting psychological needs. </p><p>Nois...

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  A No Brainer

  Mar 13, 202627 minS0

  <p>In this second conversation with Matt Parfill, CEO and founder of Grace Enterprises, we explored in more detail his and his organisation’s approach to alternative finance or in this case, social investment.  </p><p>It feels like Matt is clear that whilst it's flexible and more equitable in terms of the power dynamic (you CAN call some of the shots), it's also not for the faint hearted. </p><p>Matt is uncritical of his lenders, but recognises the inherent bias in the system that plays out in women-led and minority-led enterprises accessing less alternative finance than male-led enterprises. </p><p>Like the...

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  Making the Big Calls

  Jan 6, 202629 minS0

  <p>Choosing the right business model for the world today. Listento Catherine share her bold decisions - from constituting a mental health organisation as a Company Limited by Guarantee to being forced to make the seemingly perverse decision not to do the very thing that makes an organisation sustainable - to take paying customers.  </p><p>The life of a CEO of a social enterprise is full of tradeoffs and informed risk taking. In this podcast with Catherine Gray, CEO and Founder of Cup-O-T in Norfolk, Catherine is very candid about the journey she has been on as a social en...

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  Walking the Walk

  Nov 13, 202529 minS0

  <p>How to pivot in a world of shrinking traditional funding.</p><p>What a consultant observes in the charity and social enterprise sector.</p><p>The importance (or not) of walking the walk as a third sector leader who moves into consultancy.</p><p>In this podcast with Jodie Marshall from Mantle, Jodie shares her extraordinary story of developing a social enterprise barely out of her teens and how her desire to create a trading organisations rather than a charity has shaped her career since then.</p><p>Thank you to Jodie for bringing such fresh perspectives and an...

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