Business Live: for curious entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurs

Today's guests won't just make you make you think, I hope they'll help you to act since both offer practical and immediate action points to build a better world and better businesses.

The UK generates…

Terry Murphy runs Printed By Us, a social enterprise which sells t-shirts, prints, mugs, hoodies and other products, all featuring amazing designs by notable and up-and-coming artists.

Terry was last …

Every week on this show we try to highlight new grant and funding opportunities for businesses and social enterprises.

Today (28 October 2022) we have details of 10 x £40,000 grants; funding streams w…

Most people in poverty in the UK are in working families. Four million workers live in poverty: their resources are well below their minimum needs.

That means 'not being able to heat your home, pay yo…

It can  be unfair to quote a line from a writer's work out of context.  But the words 'Truths are unpopular. Lies are famous' capture the weird maelstrom of social media posturing, fake news, politic…

All this talk about "slashing red tape" and a sudden zeal for deregulation as a magic bullet for growth made me climb aboard my soapbox.

This episode starts with a rant and a reminder: regulation per …

Nearly 20 years ago Jon Barton created a mountain biking guide to the trails he loved to ride in the Peak District. Since then his firm Vertebrate Publishing has grown with its authors and the busine…

Today's guest says he's the "world's oldest" digital nomad – until proven otherwise. Malcolm McClean has always loved the work he does, and when he hit 65 years of age he sold everything he owns to e…

Always treat the customer as though they're your mum, says Stephen Tighe, CEO and co-founder of Allegro Opticians.

Launched just a few years ago, Allegro now has customers from  America, France, Germa…

Sarah Beaumont had held high-level management roles and worked all over the world. But when a chronic condition left her in constant pain she was told she'd never work again. Now she's launched and r…

What is 'ever-boarding' and why should you use it in your business?

Why do over half of sales people not hit their targets, and what can you do to support them better, giving you a huge return on inve…

When Hellen Stirling-Baker launched Small Stuff in 2016, a mentor told her it would fail because she was so focussed on ethical business. Six years later she runs a thriving online and physical shop,…

It's a Sheffield institution, a fixture in the firmament of music-lovers. Record Collector opened in 1978 and sells vinyl albums and CDs from its double-fronted shop in Broomhill and worldwide from i…

Diane Evans, whose father was Ukrainian, tracked down her relatives near Lviv in Western Ukraine just two-and-a-half years ago.  Since then she's met them for the first time and been in frequent cont…

It's crucial to prioritise when you launch a Minimum Viable Product. How? And how do you progress from MVP to uptake in more than 60 countries worldwide?

Caroline Allams and Manjit Sareen launched Nat…

Who are we talking with when we meet someone on a dating app or social media platform? A real person or a fantasy construct? How do we know a person's profile is genuine and what they're telling us i…

Remember going to shops and popping your change into a charity collection box next to the till? The problem for charities is this has become a memory, not a habit, as we move to a cashless society.

An…

There's a game Natalie Doherty likes to play when she meets young people on one of the Source Skills Academy's programmes.

They have this image indoctrinated into them about the type of person who is …

"We're not just hashtagging, we're actually doing something about it. I hope that gives anyone listening with a mental health problem strength: you don't have to be shut down, you don't have to be de…

News matters to local communities. How can we generate the most possible resource available for local news and then produce the best possible local newspaper with that resource?

This is the starting p…