CCE podcast series produced in partnership with Good Charity Bad Charity.
These conversational podcasts, produced in partnership with Good Charity Bad Charity are designed to engage and stimulate thinking about current issues and challenges in the charity and nonprofit sector. In each episode, three presenters chat with a charity leader about their world, their passions, and their top tips for improvement.
CCE Director Alex Skailes has joined the podcast team to explore the key topics facing the charity sector. You can listen to her contributions in the episodes below.
Supported by the City Bridge Trust, the funding arm of the City of London Corporation’s charity Bridge House Trust Estates (registered charity number 1035628).
Recent podcasts
The GCBC team are joined by Magic Breakfast’s Head of Policy and Campaigns to discuss how the pandemic has changed the charity’s delivery model, its plan to train up 10 campaigners with lived experience of food insecurity, and why Magic Breakfast won’t be entering a bid for the new government tender to supply school breakfasts. This episode was recorded in April 2021.
Listen now: I wish they would listen - Steph Harland, CEO, Age UK
The GCBC team are joined by Steph Harland, CEO of Age UK. Steph explains the steps taken by the national charity and local Age UK branches to support older people during Covid, the reasons for the decision to permanently close about a third of Age UK's charity shops; and shares her frustration at the government's lack of action on a long-term solution for social care. This episode was recorded in March 2021.
Past episodes
Listen now: A juggernaut comes along and people get missed – Mike Adamson, CEO, British Red Cross
The GCBC team are joined by Mike Adamson, CEO of the British Red Cross. Mike discusses the charity's role in responding to Covid, how he's planning to manage a significant deficit in BRC's income over the coming years, and what the pandemic has revealed about volunteering. This episode was recorded in March 2021
The GCBC team are joined by Matt Leach, CEO of Local Trust, which delivers Big Local: a 15-year programme distributing £1.15m of Lottery funding to 150 neighbourhoods across England to spend as they choose. They’re also joined by Sandi Phillips, Chair of Elthorne Pride Big Local in Islington, North London, who describes the impact of the initiative on her local community. This episode was recorded in January 2021.
Listen to the entire series
The entire podcast series with guests from the charity sector is available to stream is available on all good podcast platforms (Apple, Spotify, iHeart, RadioPublic, and RSS) and from the Good Charity, Bad Charity website. Listen to the podcast series so far
Recommended
Listen now: We’re Seeing Reverse Darwinism; organisations which were the strongest a year ago are now the most challenged – Paul Streets, Chief Executive, Lloyds Bank Foundation
Paul Streets, Chief Executive of the Lloyds Bank Foundation and visiting professor at Bayes Business School discusses how his organisation is responding to the challenges of Covid-19 and whether the crisis could lead to a new economic settlement.