Business Live: for curious entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurs

Some folk talk about technology with an "emperor's new clothes" glee, as though it's a panacea for everything wrong with society. Others exhibit phobic terror, blaming technology – not how people use…

Accountability, transparency and informed decision making are at the heart of a new website launched by today's guest Eleanor Holmshaw.

Whoismycouncillor.co.uk allows users to find the candidates stan…

What a week to discuss the business of football with SUFC's Head of Commercial, Paul Reeves.

Paul is well known for his dealmaking skills and commercial nous. He explains how he came to join the club …

Roll up, roll up it's a two for one special in today's show. Guest Louise Blackburn discusses her brace of businesses: No Waste Living and Amber Couch.

Amber Couch is Louise's website design and devel…

Enquiries about apprenticeships are soaring for The Source Skills Academy, a leading Sheffield provider of training, according to Dale Robinson.

And it's no wonder: as the UK moves out of lockdown, ap…

Jillian Kowalchuk is an award-winning entrepreneur, TEDx speaker and the founder & CEO of Safe & The City.

She launched this app in 2017 after a Google Maps route led her into a situation where two me…

Here's a first in 330 episodes: a birdsong soundtrack. Lovely backdrop for a chat about books and publishing with Stefan Tobler of And Other Stories.

Known worldwide for publishing some of the best co…

"There are people who've been ostracised by mainstream society and not given the opportunities we've been able to provide for them in the workplace."  What a year it's been for chef and social entrep…

Yinka Ewuola puts a stop to the conversation that because women entrepreneurs have less time to focus on their business, they are at a disadvantage. How and why? Listen on. She runs Calla Success Sys…

How do you support your team and manage them effectively at a time of such uncertainty and change? How do you build their and your resilience? And what can business leaders and social entrepreneurs l…

Playing has been Dale Le Fevre's life's work. One of the world's best-known exponents of the New Games movement, Dale has given workshops, trained and played in 35 countries since 1975.

New Games are …

Social enterprises exist to create impact. Not measuring it is like trying to reduce your blood pressure without checking whether your medication or lifestyle changes are having an effect, according …

Do you remember supermarket shelves stripped bare when the UK went into its first national lockdown in 2020? And widespread reports of no home delivery slots?

There are many other places to buy grocer…

"It's important we can still look forward to a great future," says Mike Lawrence, workplace health and wellbeing consultant.

Working from home means many business leaders and employees feel isolated; …

Normally on this show we get to pick the brains of business leaders and social entrepreneurs. Today's episode is a little different: it's a deferred brain-picking, if you like.

I recently joined a liv…

In this episode: a round-up of support, funding and grants for businesses and social enterprises; a guide to where to buy wonderful presents which have a positive rather than negative impact in the w…

How do you turn thoughts of a better future into reality? How can we create high-quality jobs,  make places work better for people, and truly enable an inclusive and green recovery?

Paul Riley, direct…

Food Works collects, upcycles and shares surplus food, preventing 7-9 tonnes from being wasted every week. CEO Rene Meijer describes how it achieves this – and what this fantastic social enterprise h…

Minreet Kaur is a freelance presenter, producer and reporter.  She’s worked in radio and television for the BBC, Sky News and multiple other media channels.

Her father Rajinder Singh the "Skipping Sik…

We're talking about radio in episode 317 of Business Live. There's been a surge in listener numbers for local and community radio stations since the pandemic, and we explore why, with guests Sangita …