Podcasts about Greater London Council

In this episode Parminder Vir, OBE, shares her incredible journey from growing up in a small village in Punjab to becoming an internationally recognized leader in media, storytelling, and entrepreneurship. From producing groundbreaking films to leading initiatives that have supported over 10,000 African entrepreneurs, Parminder brings invaluable lessons for anyone looking to build a career centered on purpose and impact. With over 160 episodes, the Social Change Career Podcast is your go-to resource for insights and inspiration from leaders driving global impact. Take a listen to this episode and more on PCDN.Global or any major podcasting platform. Why Take a Listen? Insights from a Global Leader: Parminder's career spans the arts, film production, entrepreneurship, and global development. Her work offers a unique perspective on creating change across diverse sectors. Harness the Power of Storytelling: Learn how storytelling can drive societal transformation, amplify underrepresented voices, and serve as a catalyst for impactful change. Practical Career Guidance: Parminder shares thoughtful advice on finding your purpose, taking risks, and building a career that aligns with your values while making a difference. Africa's Entrepreneurship Boom: Gain insights into the transformative role of entrepreneurship on the African continent, and Parminder's role in shaping initiatives like the Tony Elumelu Foundation's groundbreaking programs. Guest Bio Bio: Parminder Vir OBE is a commercially focused executive with broad international experience in entrepreneurship, business development, and media. In a professional career spanning 40 years, she has dedicated her life to telling untold stories, particularly those of underserved communities, and resourcing the skills and imagination of these communities. In 2002, she was awarded an OBE for services to the Broadcasting and Film industry. Currently, she is writing a work memoir, weaving the diverse threads of a four-decade professional journey and offering a unique glimpse into the evolution of her career and the lessons learned along the way. This journey has fostered African Entrepreneurship, brought untold stories to the Film and Television screen, and fuelled creativity in the Arts and Culture. As CEO of the Tony Elumelu Foundation, she masterminded and executed a comprehensive entrepreneurship programme that significantly impacted over 10,000 African entrepreneurs in 54 African nations from 2014 to 2021. She continues to advocate for entrepreneurship as the best path for the continent's social and economic development, changing the African narrative through entrepreneur stories and helping shape the agenda for the growth of African entrepreneurship. Parminder Vir lends her strategic insights as an Advisory Board Member of Mamamoni Limited and HelpMum, contributes as a Narrative Advisor at Mustard Venture Agency, and is a director at Zikora Media and Arts Cultural Heritage Initiative, an inspirational cultural institution for Africa. For over two decades, she enjoyed a distinguished career as a film and television producer with BBC, Carlton Television, and the CEO of her own production company, Formation Films. Parminder began her career in arts administration at the Greater London Council, funding a wide variety of ethnic minority artists and organizations, many of whom are internationally renowned today.  Sher her personal website here Key Resources from the Episode Parminder's Website: Explore her work and ongoing projects: Parminder Vir OBE Tony Elumelu Foundation: Learn more about the program transforming entrepreneurship in Africa: TEF Website Vantage News: The platform offering a unique perspective on global news Parminder mentioned during the podcast: Vantage. PCDN Resources Get more curated jobs, funding, and career insights in social impact—sign up for the free PCDN Weekly Impact Newsletter  Listen to this episode and the 160+ other Social Change Career Podcast episodes at PCDN.global or any major podcast platform. Subscribe, rate, and share if you find it meaningful!     Timestamps [00:00] Parminder's early life in Punjab and her family's migration to the UK. [00:10] Transition from education to the arts and championing ethnic minority arts in the UK. [00:25] Building a career in film and storytelling as tools for societal change. [00:40] Leading the Tony Elumelu Foundation and advocating for African entrepreneurs. [00:55] Practical advice for building purpose-driven careers. [01:05] Reflections on lifelong learning, upskilling, and finding your mission. Take a listen to this episode and more on PCDN.Global or any major podcasting platform!

The Greater London Authority [GLA] is the body that governs London, the capital city of the United Kingdom, and home to 9 million people with a GDP of over £500 billion. The eventual successor to the Greater London Council, it came about to a backdrop of a wider push towards devaluation. To discuss the GLA and wider London politics we were joined by Gareth Bacon MP. Gareth is the current Minister for Sentencing and Member of Parliament for Orpington. He previously served as the leader of the Conservative party in the London Assembly as well as a Councillor in Bexley. Gareth also Chaired the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority during Boris Johnson's time as Mayor.Follow and comment on Twitter @WhitehallPodUK

Today's discussion came from our archives and was recorded in February of 2023. Our talk is hosted by Ed Dodson, who joined our guest, Mr. Dave Wetzel.   Dave Wetzel has had a long career in transportation, working as a bus conductor and official in the 1960s. Shortly after, Mr. Wetzel became a political organizer of the London Co-operative Society between 1974 and 1981. He was elected as a Labour member for Hammersmith and Fulham on the Greater London Council in 1981 and served as the Chair of the Transport Committee. Mr. Wetzel also served on Hounslow Borough Council, acting as the leader in the late 80s and early 90s. Dave was Vice Chair of Transport for London between 2000 and 2008 and Chair of London Buses from 2000 to 2001.   London has long had an issue with congestion and transportation. Often, policy-makers take a top-down approach to implementation and steamroll over the issues most important to the people impacted by these policies. As a transportation leader for the city, Dave fostered collaboration and consensus-building when making plans and procedures regarding transportation. One of the pitfalls of technocracy, a society or government run by experts, is that the people most impacted by policy choices are left out of the decision-making process. This will, in turn, fail to address the structural inequalities being addressed since the people with the most knowledge about them aren't able to correct these problems   Mr. Wetzel was educated at Southall Technical College, Ealing College, and at the Henry George School of Social Science. This week we discussed how Mr. Wetzel's experience impacted his time as a transportation leader, the implications of Russian imperialism and their conflict with Ukraine, and got into the weeds of London's transportation policy. To check out more of our content, including our research and policy tools, visit our website: https://www.hgsss.org/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/smart-talk-hgsss/support

Today my guest is the film curator and archivist, June Givanni. June's new exhibition, PerAnkh: The June Givanni PanAfrican Cinema Archive, is showing at Raven Row in London until 4 June 2023.The June Givanni PanAfrican Cinema Archive (JGPACA) holds a unique collection of artefacts and archival material, which has at its core the interest of PanAfrican cinema and its relationship with Black British cinema and culture. The exhibition reveals histories and ideas in African and African diasporic film. June has been collating and sharing this material since the 1980s. A key figure in the Black British Independent Cinema movement, she was involved in the landmark Third Eye Festival of Third World Cinema with the Greater London Council in 1983, later establishing the African Caribbean FilmUnit at the (BFI) in 1992. June's archive holds more than 10,000 items connecting African film with the film cultures of diaspora communities in the Americas, the Caribbean and Europe. June and I met this week to discuss her early connection with film as a child and her four decades of work as a curator and archivist.Shade Podcast is written, hosted and produced by Lou MensahMusic generously composed for Shade by Brian JacksonThank you for listening and for supporting Shade - an independent art show highlighting the work of Black art practitioners via Patreon and Ko-fiSee you next time!Shade InstagramShade websitePerAnkh: The June Givanni PanAfrican Cinema Archive, is showing at Raven Row exhibition details and programmingJune Givanni PanAfrican Cinema Archive website Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/shadepodcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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#16 Simon Partridge - Upper Class Complex Trauma Condition (UCCTC) - AEM Podcast - Boarding School Trauma In today's podcast I have a fascinating conversation with Simon Partridge about UCCTC.Simon comes from a partly French post-colonial background in India. His half-French grandfather went to Eton. Simon Partridge was sent to weekly board in 1954 at 6 and to full board from 7-17. He was sent to his father's public school Eastbourne College in 1960, where he failed to follow in his footsteps… Apart from a short time at the doomed Greater London Council (1984-86) developing community radio he has been an itinerant writer/researcher covering: devolved politics; the British-Irish conflict; ethno-cultural mingling across the islands of Britain and Ireland; the psycho-neurobiological consequences of detached upper-class child rearing and boarding schools; inter-generational war trauma; and more latterly Complex-PTSD and Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). He is a founding director of the London ACEs Hub - https://www.londonaceshub.org/ . He continues to explore and write, from lived experience, about the linkage between early attachment deficits and ACEs.Email: simonpartridge846@btinternet.comQuestions:1. I would love you to share some of your own journey at boarding school and your own healing journey. What triggered your journey into exploring boarding school trauma?2. I would love you to talk about the difference between boarding school syndrome and upper class complex trauma condition (UCCTC)?3. Does social background effect how one is effected by BS and is it a cause of bullying?4. “I'm interested in the generational traumas, generations of generals and admirals, all following in the footsteps of those who came before. And how these familial traumas over a long time have influenced their descendants' behaviours now?”5. “And I'm interested in knowing about HOW some of those descendants have changed their views/behaviours, e.g. taking a different stand as a Conscientious Objector or otherwise.”6. “Defining what the categories of Social class and SES seems to have evolved over recent decades, so I'm wondering how that shapes Simon's lens?”7. “The phenomenon of father who went to boarding school sending son to bs, and so on through generations, as well as both parents supporting both boys and girls 'going away' to boarding school is interesting enough. When we know that those fathers and mothers had a tough time at bs one can't help but wonder why they would send their children with any chance that they might also suffer. Understanding the rationale within a class context is something that Simon probably grasps more than anyone. Would it be factors such as beliefs in either the social or educational goals of a bs education that would shout louder than their suffering, or would they rationalize that things would change for the next generation? Do they think that bs provides a necessary toughening up process? Is bs just part of what " people like us" ( PLU) do? Has their bs experience desensitized them and made them less empathic than they might be? Maybe they just haven't given it a thought?8. Happy to try to unpack difference between UCCTC and BS syndrome 1st Nations, and BS syndrome Brit boarding. The “social context” is important for me… 9. “I wonder what Simon thinks about BSS as a concept, and whether or not it might be revisited, expanded, or dropped? Does he think it's the same Syndrome in first Nations Children for example, as might be experienced by some boys at Eton?"10. In your opinion how do we change this system?11. How do people learn more about what you do or read your papers? Is there anywhere you can direct people?

Watch it on YouTube with subtitles: https://youtu.be/q3Jj2Js6Zvg === A journey through the history of municipalism === Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In this session we'll take an exciting tour through the history of municipalism alongside people who have studied it or lived through it first hand. We'll explore the examples of Spanish municipalism in the early 19th century, Italy's Take Over the City movement of the 1970s, progressive cities in the US under Reagan and the Greater London Council that stood up to Thatcher in the 80s, and we'll identify the lessons that they hold for contemporary movements and governments. === Un viaje por la historia del municipalismo === Quien no recuerda el pasado está condenado a repetirlo. Hacemos un recorrido apasionante por la historia del municipalismo con personas que la han estudiado o vivido en primera persona. Recuperamos la memoria de experiencias como la revolucionaria Comuna de París, la Barcelona anarcosindicalista de los años 30, el municipalismo italiano de los años 70 o el Consejo de Londres que plantó cara a Thatcher en los años 80 e identificaremos las lecciones que podemos extraer los movimientos y gobiernos contemporáneos. === Un viatge per la història del municipalisme === Qui no recorda el passat esta condemnat a repetir-lo. Fem un recorregut apassionant per la història del municipalisme amb persones que l'han estudiat i viscut en primera persona. Recuperarem la memòria d'experiències com la revolucionària Comuna de Paris, el municipalisme italià dels anys 70 o el Consell de Londres que va plantar cara a Thatcher en els anys 80 i n'identificarem les lliçons pràctiques que en podem extraure els moviments i governs contemporanis. ===== More info about #FearlessCities2021 at www.fearlesscities.com Follow us on https://twitter.com/BComuGlobal

The viewpoint deals with four Greater London Council housing blocks - two in Tower Hamlets and a second pair in Westminster, where the architects employed an experimental plastics building system in their design and construction. More latterly, the buildings were involved in the "Homes for Votes" scandal in the 1980s, which has received renewed attention in the light of the Grenfell Tower disaster.

Established in 1965, the Greater London Council hosted one of the United Kingdom’s most radical experiments in cultural policy after Ken Livingstone and the Labour left took control of it in 1981. This month, Juliet talks to academic Hazel Atashroo and Red Metropolis author Owen Hatherley about the entrance of the “post-1968 generation” into the GLC, and their approach to the arts: their interest in cultural democracy and challenging the Arts Council’s model of centralised funding; the Ethnic Arts and Community Arts sub-committees, and their critics; their use of post-punk aesthetics and their hip hop festival; their engagement with the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and other radical movements. They discuss the reasons for the GLC’s abolition in 1986, the media campaign against “the Loony Left” and Thatcher’s assault on local authorities; its influence on New Labour’s cultural policies and foundation of the Greater London Assembly in 2000; and what can be learned from the GLC’s approach to the arts in the 21st century.

Our Moderator Paul Shearer is joined by the sponsor of this episode Rob Bould (IPSX) as we take a look at asset management in real estate, best practices, and how IPSX factors into the future of this discipline. Paul and Rob are joined by Huw Stephens (Patrizia), and John Jones (Tandem Asset Management). Topics covered in this episode: Rob Bould sets out the lay of the land for asset management from the view of IPSX. Huw discusses the investor’s point of view when considering the benefits of using IPSX to invest in a single asset property. What new asset management strategies can be used when the investor can choose to invest in single assets. The opportunity for investors to effect change on individual buildings and keep tenants happy and ensure consistent income from the asset. How companies like WeWork serve as examples of ‘space as a service’ and illustrate the increasingly customer facing nature of asset management. The changing state of lease contracts, their length, responsibilities of tenants and owners, and costs. The power of using management techniques as a brand across properties, and the benefits that can bring to valuation. The explosion of available and transparent data that will come from assets listed on IPSX. Best practices for asset management. Rob Bould Rob Bould is the former CEO of leading International property agents and advisory firm GVA Bilfinger. Currently Rob runs his own consultancy business and is Chairman of both LandAid and of Coyote Group, as well as holding various senior advisory and Non Executive Director roles, including being a Non Executive Director of IPSX - the world's first securities exchange dedicated to commercial real estate. https://www.ipsx.com/ Paul Shearer Paul Shearer has worked extensively in both Television and Radio in front of and behind the camera as an actor, writer and presenter and script editor. As a journalist he has written for both The Times and The Financial Times on residential property. http://www.paulshearer.com/ Huw Stephens Huw Stephens joined Patrizia’s pan-European transactions team with a focus on central London. Previously Huw worked at AXA for 24 years, where he was head of UK transactions. Huw and his team have pioneering proponents of putting together JVs and club deals, such as at 22 Bishopsgate, Ropemaker Place, and the Google HQ at Kings Cross, where compatible capital is stitched together to buy an asset and execute a specific business plan. https://www.patrizia.ag/en/ John Jones John has worked in the property sector since graduation from Reading University in 1982. No gap years and no sabbaticals mean he has worked through all the property cycles and economic events of the last 30+ years. John completed his APC training with the Greater London Council in the Red Ken era followed by several years in Asset Management with Investment Bank, Morgan Grenfell and agents Morgan Grenfell Laurie and Vigers. Following a merger in 1990 John settled as a Partner in the property management team at Grimley JR Eve and was at the heart of what became the GVA business for over 25 years. In this period John worked with a wonderful range of loyal and leading clients and an array of complex property assets from portfolios to major mixed-use assets and developments. He has worked for investors, developers, occupiers and major public -sector organisations. https://www.tandem-property.com/

We're joined by Tim Joubert to discuss municipal socialism and the Greater London Council under Ken Livingstone.

Ben Fine (SOAS) This podcast is a recording of the Third SOAS Economics Alumni Lecture on " Post-Truth: An Alumni Economist’s Perspective". Ben Fine can draw upon fifty years as an academic economist, whether as student, researcher or policy advisor. Unintimidated by the increasing technical wizardry of mainstream economics, he will use his experience and experiences to expose the truths, half-truths and untruths of the dismal science to question whether the discipline might appropriately be seen as a precocious if shifting purveyor of what has come to be known as post-truth. Speaker biography: Ben Fine is Emeritus Professor of Economics at SOAS University of London. He has (co)authored or edited over thirty books and published over 250 articles covering a wide range of economic theory, economic and social policy, development economics, political economy and the history of economic thought, with a strong intellectual commitment to interdisciplinarity. Different books were awarded the Gunnar Myrdal and Deutscher Memorial Prizes. Ben served as a founding member of the Social Science Research Committee of the UK’s Food Standards Agency and chaired the Working Group on Reform of Slaughterhouse Controls. He was an expert witness at the Sizewell B Nuclear Power Inquiry, and served as one of four international expert advisors on President Mandela’s 1995/96 South African Labour Market Commission. He was Research Editor at the Industry and Employment Branch of the Greater London Council, and has advised UNDP, UNRISD, UNDESA, UNCTAD, Oxfam and other progressive organisations including trade unions and civil society organisations. He is Chair of the International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy. Speakers: Ben Fine (SOAS) Released by: SOAS Economics Podcasts

Joining us to discuss her long history on the socialist left is Hilary Wainwright, founding member and co-editor of Red Pepper political magazine and fellow at the Transnational Institute. In this episode, which will be relevant for all leftists regardless of nationality, we discuss Wainwright’s history in the 1960’s women’s movement, the Bennite socialist left, and her attempts to democratize the Greater London Council in the 1980s. 

Wainwright’s latest book, A New Politics from the Left, focuses on doing socialist politics by way of a deep organizing model, which emphasizes building the capacities and self-activity of the masses over simply mobilizing voters. 

We discuss the notion of being “in and against the state” or what’s often referred to as the “inside-outside” strategy for democratic socialist transition. This is relevant for all socialist movements, from the Corbyn movement to the Bernie wave and beyond. 
 Check out Red Pepper here: https://www.redpepper.org.uk/ Find out more about her latest book: https://www.wiley.com/en-us/A+New+Politics+from+the+Left-p-9781509523634

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The General Election of June 2017, and the massive Labour surge under Jeremy Corbyn's socialist leadership, has provided a new sense of optimism for those hoping for an end to utilitarian approaches to culture and swingeing cuts to arts funding. This month, Juliet talks to Loraine Leeson, Hassan Mahamdallie and Hilary Wainwright about the concept of cultural democracy, the recent The World Transformed conference and the Arts for Labour initiative. What are Jeremy Corbyn's arts policies, and how are they informed by the anti-austerity movement? What has been learned from the Greater London Council's arts programmes of the 1980s, or the Attlee government's cultural policies? How did writers and thinkers such as William Morris, E.P. Thompson and Raymond Williams establish a long British tradition of 'cultural democracy', and what can we take from them in the 21st century? WORKS REFERENCED: Campaign to save The Cinema Museum: www.cinemamuseum.org.uk 'A Creative Future for All' - https://www.policyforum.labour.org.uk/news/a-creative-future-for-all The Great Exhibition of the North - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-43324069 The Gay Sweatshop Theatre Company - http://www.unfinishedhistories.com/history/companies/gay-sweatshop/ LORAINE LEESON, Art : Process : Change (2017) - https://www.routledge.com/Art--Process--Change-Inside-a-Socially-Situated-Practice/Leeson/p/book/9781138670631 KEN LOACH, The Spirit of '45 (2017) - http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/reviews-recommendations/film-week-spirit-45 HASSAN MAHAMDALLIE on William Morris - https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/isj2/1996/isj2-071/mahamdallie.htm WILLIAM MORRIS, News from Nowhere (1890) - https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/from-the-archive-blog/2011/may/17/guardian190-william-morris-news-from-nowhere HILARY WAINWRIGHT, A New Politics from the Left (2017) - https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/persuasive-points-on-new-politics-from-the-left

Martha Kearney uncovers the secrets within the Government files of 1984. Margaret Thatcher's government faced some formidable adversaries. The long-anticipated battle with the National Union of Mineworkers and its leader, Arthur Scargill, finally erupted, dominating the political scene well into 1985. The charismatic Ken Livingstone, leader of the Greater London Council, was winning the costly PR war against abolition of the GLC. And terror hit home with the shooting of policewoman Yvonne Fletcher outside the Libyan Embassy and the IRA bombing of the Conservative Party Conference in Brighton. On the world stage, the Cold War reached a crucial turning point. The cost of the nuclear arms race was rocketing and the world needed a new approach to East-West relations. Rising star of the Soviet Politburo, Mikhail Gorbachev, was invited to Britain and spent five hours at Chequers in a now famous meeting with the Prime Minister. As the official Cabinet papers of 1984 are opened to the public for the first time, Martha Kearney discovers how these events were viewed in Government. With access to the Prime Minister's personal correspondence, minutes of top secret meetings and telephone calls, and confidential policy advice, Martha can now offer fresh insights into history. Former Ministers and other key insiders from the time join Martha in the studio to help her interpret the papers and give their own impressions of the revelations within them. Producer: Deborah Dudgeon A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4.

Transcript -- Politician and former Mayor of London Ken Livingstone talks about when he first met Doreen, his experience at the Greater London Council and the development of London as a global political economy.

Politician and former Mayor of London Ken Livingstone talks about when he first met Doreen, his experience at the Greater London Council and the development of London as a global political economy.