Business Live: for curious entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurs

What do you want your website to do for you? It's the key question which must be at the top of your brief, not what do you want your site to look like according to Ant Clifford of Creative Stream.

 An…

Pam Warhurst trained as an economist, has held senior board level roles for all sorts of organisations and is the founder of the Incredible Edible movement through which food has been a catalyst for …

Olusola McKenzie, founder of Learn to Re-create Ltd, a fashion and textiles social enterprise, on how determination, consistency and flexibility are the key factors which helped achieve her vision.

Da…

Aldo Monteforte is CEO and co-founder of insurance telematics leader The Floow.

Last week, The Floow was named winner of the Red Herring Top 100 Europe award – another trophy in the innovative Sheffie…

Running your own business? Always make sure your clients are happy? Great.

But if those clients aren’t making you happy, don’t respect you or pay you on time (or want to pay you in fish and chips!) th…

The Anglers Rest in Bamford – a few miles west of Sheffield – is more than a pub: it's a post office, cafe, music venue, meeting space for clubs and societies, art gallery and community hub.

But a few…

There's a problem in venture capital. In the UK, VC-ready startups gravitate to where the money is: London (and to some extent Cambridge and Oxford).

That's led to a "tech funding gap in the North of …

Many businesses and social enterprises have described on this podcast and radio programme how they have used crowdfunding to test their market, reach customers, or access finance to build their busin…

Deborah Bullivant of Grimm and Co demonstrates the incredible power of storytelling today.

Grimm and Co is a children’s literacy charity and ‘apothecary to the magical.’ It  has been “supplying evil p…

Laura Bennett, Elizabeth Shassere and Johnny Pawlik returned to the radio studio.

Elizabeth and Laura recently traveled to Gaza and mentored entrepreneurs at a bootcamp for the Gaza Sky Geeks programm…

New interviews with Elizabeth Shassere and Laura Bennett about the Gaza Sky Geeks programme and with craftsman Richard Osborne, of From the Workshop.

Elizabeth Shassere and Laura Bennett will be trave…

Over 50% of prisoners and unemployed people in the community have dyslexia or similar learning difficulties; more than 70% have low levels of literacy.

And for many prisoners, like today's guest Dale …

Vanda Kewley set up The Suit Works, a social enterprise providing a free service to help unemployed men of all ages to succeed at interview by building confidence and self esteem through personal sty…

Dr. Heather Anson is a multi-national law consultant and part of the team at Digital Law UK, director of DLUK Evaluate, and owner of Anson Legal.

She joined me for a fascinating discussion about offsh…

Hannah Duraid founded The Great Escape Game, Sheffield's first and largest live escape room experience which has now been played by over 18,000 people.

In the Great Escape people work together to esca…

An apprentice who at 19 years old has already saved Rolls-Royce £10m; the author of a new report describing Sheffield as the beer capital of the world and a member of the team behind a rocket-powered…

Louise Page is the acclaimed playwright known for Salonika, Another Nine Months, The Statue of Liberty, Love From a Stranger and many other works.

Louise has also written extensively for TV and radio,…

Author Joanne Harris, poet and broadcaster Ian McMillan, writer and League of Gentlemen member Jeremy Dyson and social entrepreneur Ben Payne – plus Grimm and Co founder Deborah Bullivant.

It was a pl…

t was a pleasure and privilege to attend Monday’s opening of Grimm & Co, the “apothecary supplying sorcery services and unnatural products to magical beings,” which is also a Yorkshire charity, a wri…