Social Innovation: The Social Ideas Podcast

In this episode we meet Matt Pierri, 2025 Social Innovation Prize Winner and founder of Sociability. 

Sociability is a mobile app and online platform which provides detailed accessibility information …

In this episode we meet Sol Escobar, founder of 'Give Your Best' and 2025 Social Innovation Prize Winner. 

Give Your Best is the UK's first circular platform where people can donate clothes online, an…

In this episode we meet 2025 Social Innovation Prize Winner Charlie Fraser, founder of TERN (The Entrepreneurial Refugee Network).  

Since 2016, TERN has been supporting people in the UK to launch bus…

In this episode, we meet Abdirahim Hassan, one of our 2025 Social Innovation Prize winners, and learn about his Community Interest Company, Coffee Afrik. 

Coffee Afrik makes culturally sensitive publi…

In this episode, we talk to Rachel Mostyn and Camilla Rigby. Rachel and Camilla are co-founders of Women’s Work Lab, a Community Interest Company which supports the careers of women and single parent…

In this episode, we talk to JR Josephs, founder of Sirlute. As a charitable organisation, Sirlute provide creative learning and mentoring for children and young people in London.

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In this episode we hear from Izzy Obeng, co-founder of Foundervine. Foundervine’s mission is to remove social and economic barriers to entrepreneurship for women and are racially-minoritised individu…

In this episode, we hear from Daryl Chambers, founder of InPower Academy CIC. InPower Academy work in in crime impacted areas to transform young people’s lives through martial arts training.

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In this episode of The Social Innovation Podcast, Lisa Stepanovic shares the benefits and power of winning the Cambridge Social Innovation Prize.

Lisa is the Founder and CEO of the multi award winning…

In this episode of The Social Ideas Podcast, social entrepreneur Will Britton shares why he created the AutonoMe app and how winning The Cambridge Social Innovation Prize helped develop his social en…

In this episode of The Social Ideas Podcast, graduate of the Masters in Social Innovation Programme and social innovator, Nora Wilhelm shares her journey to becoming an activist.

She discusses her wor…

In this episode of The Social Ideas Podcast we hear from Christine Kinnear, Founder and CEO of With Insight Education.

With Insight Education is a charity that mentors Black-heritage pupils to help th…

In this episode of The Social Ideas Podcast,  we hear from CEO and Founder of Noise solution, Simon Glenister.

Simon shares how the social enterprise uses music mentoring to work with young people who…

In this episode, we hear from Aoise Keogan-Nooshabadi, Co-founder and the COO of Supply Change. 

Supply Change is a social enterprise platform, which allows buyers to find social environmental supplie…

In this episode, we hear from Dr Liz Dennis, the co-Founder of The Filo Project, which offers high quality day care for small groups of older people, supporting individuals who are socially isolated,…

In this episode, we hear from Tim West, the Founder Editor and CEO of the social enterprise magazine, Pioneers Post.

Tim is also involved in a number of different organisations, working to promote so…

In this episode, we hear from Poku Osei, the founder and CEO of Babbasa. The social enterprise was created to tackle the challenges of youth unemployment and educational underachievement in Bristol’s…

On 5 July 2023, the National Health Service - one of the UK's greatest social innovations - turned 75.

In this episode of The Social Ideas Podcast, Dr Hinnah Rafique shares why she founded Generation …

Congratulations to Zakia Moulaoui, who is one of five winners of this year’s Cambridge Social Innovation Prize.

Listen to The Social Ideas Podcast: no longer invisible to learn more about Zakia’s soci…

In this short episode of The Social Ideas Podcast, we introduce you to this year's winners of the Cambridge Social Innovation Prize winners.

Throughout the coming days, we'll be sharing longer intervi…