Podcasts about national citizen service

Lucinda Rouse, Andy Ricketts and Emily Harle dissect the leading stories from the voluntary sector in 2024.Lucinda delivers a speedy round-up of the year's charity news before the three discuss their selected top stories. These include the closure of the British Youth Council and the National Citizen Service, the finding that charities are subsidising government service contracts by £2.4bn a year, and the implications of a new government for the sector.They share their nominations for the year's strangest stories, namely the mystery online fundraiser set up for Trussell, the anonymous cash donations to Bristol-based charities, and the most theatrical of trustee disputes at the Actors' Benevolent Fund.They reflect on some recurring trends and learnings over the course of the year, from changing social media usage to redundancies and the need to include the right people in discussions about tackling racism.Tell us what you think of the Third Sector Podcast! Please take five minutes to let us know how we can bring you the most relevant, useful content. To fill in the survey, click here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lucinda Rouse and Emily Harle are joined by Fozia Irfan, director of impact and influence at BBC Children in Need, to reflect on the challenges facing charities and grantmakers in the present funding climate.Fozia describes the role of funders such as Children in Need to convene networks spread across the UK and create communities of practice to provide more holistic and structural solutions to issues such as child poverty.She stresses her belief that funders should do more than simply issue grants by using their platform to empower and, where necessary, change public perceptions about the communities they support.Also in the episode, Emily and Lucinda discuss the mixed reaction to the news that the National Citizen Service programme will close in March 2025.Do you have stories of people whose lives have been transformed for the better thanks to your charity? If so, we'd like to hear them! All it takes is a short voice message to be featured on this podcast. Email lucinda.rouse@haymarket.com for further information.Tell us what you think of the Third Sector Podcast! Please take five minutes to let us know how we can bring you the most relevant, useful content. To fill in the survey, click here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this week's episode of Life and Lessons, you're going to hear a conversation I had with Jon Yates.Jon is the Executive Director of the Youth Endowment Fund, and author of the book Fractured. He has spent two decades looking at how we can bring society closer together.Jon founded the National Citizen Service, which has already helped more than 500,000 young people, and he has worked on political strategy, including in his previous role as Chief Policy Adviser to the Secretary of State for Education.In the next hour, you're going to learn: 1. Why the world we live in right now feels so fractured2. Why identities, attitudes and even the words we use end up controlling so much of our lives and outcomes 3. Why in the right circumstances, wearing a Man United shirt will make it more likely that you're offered help if you fall in the street 4. What each of us can do right now to bring our communities, cultures and societies closer together, and begin to mend some of the fractures we faceAnd so much more.Order Fractured here: https://www.waterstones.com/book/fractured/jon-yates/9780008463991— Jon YatesTwitter: https://twitter.com/jonpayatesSean SpoonerTwitter: https://twitter.com/spoonerseanInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/spoonersean/Life and Lessons PodcastSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7LF1Hao4i4CYeNNYiFaoix?si=9af4716caa534842.Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/life-and-lessons-by-sean-spooner/id1490711078 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Brett Wigdortz OBE is a philanthropist, entrepreneur and founder of Teach First, an social enterprise charity addressing educational disadvantage in England and Wales. He was also recently re-elected as chairman of the board for the National Citizen Service, a UK government-backed training scheme for teenagers. Formerly an international journalist, Brett has spent time in dozens of countries and knows education inside out. As a founder and tech leader, he's ambitious to find innovative solutions to education inequality and help lower-income children gain access to better schooling.  In this episode, Brett chats to Gareth about his work setting up a digital community of childminders at tiney.co, the differences in education around the world and long-term challenges faced by schoolchildren due to the Covid pandemic. Beginnings (1.10) Defining Education (4.32)Education and social mobility in the UK (5.55)Education in Finland (9.04)Long term impact of Covid (15.34) Setting up tiney.co (16.38)NCS work (20.53)What are North America doing differently? (24.40) Inequality in the UK (26.40) Outside of work (28.49)Combating childhood obesity with Bite Back (31.27)Links (34.38)

What can we learn from the charity sector? Ndidi Okezie OBE is the CEO of UK Youth; a leading charity with a movement of over 5,500 youth organisations, reaching 1.6M young people. Prior to this, she worked as a teacher and school leader for ten years, spent six years as the Executive Director of Teach First, and lead on Digital and Customer Voice Strategy for Pearson PLC. She is a Board Trustee for the youth homelessness charity Centrepoint, The Mulberry Schools Trust and The National Citizen Service. She also co-hosts the podcast 'Are You Convinced?' (previously 'Go With Me On This'). In this episode we discuss her route to leadership, the range of roles she has experienced, the importance of humility, and the transferability of school leadership skills. @Ndidi1st https://www.instagram.com/ndidi1st/ @GreenshawTrust Music: www.bensound.com

In this weeks episode we discuss how leading companies are leveraging corporate social responsibility and social impact to create influence, engage employees, and drive meaningful change. Critical issues such as diversity, pay equity, social justice and climate change have made their way into the workplace and the corporate C-suite, and companies are being judged on the basis of their treatment of employees and customers, and their impact on social issues. This conversation follows on from a panel discussion we had at International Confex on September 2021. We catch up with Mark Webster, Managing Director Give to Get, UK and Europe. Give To Get is a specialist Social Impact agency which helps clients reach clients ESG/CSR goals, global clients include Cisco, AT&T Time Warner and Apple. Mark has spent his career in marketing, media and advertising. His career includes positions at various Publicis and WPP groups. In 2009 Mark founded Kameleon – a specialist content and partnerships agency where he led the business work and worked across Sony and RockCorps Globally, Danone as well as launching the National Citizen Service in the UK. Kameleon was acquired by the Be Heard group in 2017. In 2019 Mark launched the European arm of Give to Get, a specialist Social Impact agency which helps clients reach clients ESG/CSR goals, global clients include Cisco, AT&T Time Warner and Apple. Twitter and IG: @gv2gt LinkedIn: Give to Get We are also joined by Justine Kane, Senior Consultant + Social Entrepreneur. Specialising in CSR (ESG), Social Impact, Events, Education, Training, Business Development and Project Management. Justine is a proven senior leader with extensive professional experience developed over more than 20 years in the events and training sectors, including founding The Event Academy in 2010 and The Event Talent Agency in 2018. With thousands of connections in the events industry, she was winner of the IEAM ‘2014 Outstanding Contribution to the Entertainment & Arts Industry' award, was a mentor for three years on the Fast Forward 15 mentoring program for women and was passionate about sitting on the Event Management Apprenticeship Board, focusing on D&I in the Events Industry. More recently, Justine has followed her drive for Social Impact and ESG by consulting with clients in this field. LinkedIn: Justine Kane As usual don't forget to subscribe so you never miss another episode Follow Us: IG @Diversityally and @DiversityinEventsAwards and TW: @DiversityAlly1 and @DEIEventsAwards www.Diversityally.co.uk

Rohin is an independent strategy consultant (specialising in education and learning) and founder of an education technology start-up. The majority of Rohin's professional work experience has been as a strategy consultant first at Monitor Deloitte and then working independently for a variety of firms. His experience has focussed upon public services (including education), healthcare and technology as well as a number of private equity due diligence assignments. Rohin also spent nine months on secondment to Cabinet Office in 2012 in order to scale National Citizen Service. In 2017, Rohin founded Think Smart with the aim of tackling the career guidance problem. Think Smart uses problem solving that is sourced directly from professionals in a variety of jobs in order to help people at different stages of their career path think about their next steps in a more informed way. He has worked with clients in Europe and Singapore to date. Rohin also used his start-up experience to help found a new generation mortgage lender: Generation Home. It will allow young people to more easily get onto the housing ladder through the concept of group mortgages.Rohin has long been passionate about education and spent eight years as a governor of MidKent College, a further education provider based in the Maidstone and Medway areas. He supported mainly on board strategy, understanding the students and their holistic needs and all things digital. Rohin has an MA in Economics from King's College, Cambridge and an MBA from INSEAD where he was lucky enough to study in both France and Singapore. https://www.londonmet.ac.uk/about/corporate-governance/board-of-governors/members-of-the-board/rohin-aggarwal/

Stephen Greene CBE is co-founder and CEO of the international pro-social media and entertainment company RockCorps.   RockCorps uses music and culture to inspire action—providing the tools and opportunities for people to volunteer and get involved in their community. One person, one show, one city at a time—RockCorps enables people to change the world, while at the same time enabling brands to develop a unique connection with their target audience.   I met Stephen a few years ago while I was at adidas, and we were looking for new, remarkable ways to connect with our consumers. What Stephen does at RockCorps is remarkable.   RockCorps has welcomed Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Pharrell, Snoop, Diddy, Busta and hundreds more to their stages.   In 2012 the then British Prime Minister, David Cameron, appointed Greene as Executive Chairman of the independent management body of the National Citizen Service. And in 2019, at the Queen's Birthday honours, Stephen was awarded the CBE for services to young people. Standing for Commander of the Order of the British Empire, the CBE is the highest ranking Order of the British Empire award after a knighthood.   Connect with Stephen on LinkedIn.   In this episode we discuss: How one pasta dinner between friends ultimately impacted thousands of people around the world What the “Tsunami of Kindness” is, and the opportunity it presents The secret brand sponsorship that will drive brand love and brand loyalty The framing that can unlock exponential returns for multiple stakeholders A new approach to connecting with and hiring diverse youth The power of citizens to change the world, one small act at a time     Key Takeaways: We don't need to go back to “life as normal”. As we come out of COVID, we can take this opportunity to intentionally decide what we want to keep from the old way of doing things, and what we want to reinvent and improve. Where we want to connect more, where we want to give more, and where we want to demand more. There is an opportunity to use marketing in a different way: To use marketing dollars to create meaningful experiences for your consumer and also create a ripple effect of good. With RockCorps your brand can be the conduit that enables your consumers to tap into their intrinsic motivation. The narrative of our lives is ultimately constructed by the power of individual moments—your brand can be part of a transformative moment, and as a result, consumers' relationship with your brand will change forever. Business isn't inherently bad or inherently good. Business has both negative and positive externalities. There is a lot of opportunity to look at business holistically, and intentionally maximize positive externalities in the way we operate, and minimize or eliminate negative externalities.   References: RockCorps Apprentice Nation Director and RockCorps co-founder Chris Robinson Boost Mobile Former Boost Mobile CMO Darryl Cobbin's LinkedIn 95% of affluent millennials in the USA say that they would switch brands for a good cause (85% of all millennials in the USA say they would switch brands for a good cause.  

To read about the Breast and Bottles debate, debunked: subscribe to the New Leaf Nutshell here: https://newleafpodcast.substack.com/p/the-new-leaf-nutshell-breasts-and   Mary Daniels is a lady of many, many hats.… Mum of one, and until recently stepmum of 3, she now travels the world (when it's allowed, that is) mentoring, coaching, running retreats, designing programmes to empower women and young people, and is a published author of an incredible book entitled: Wild Awakening: The 9 questions that Saved my Life. She's currently a consultant working for a Human Rights Group, and has also done a Ted Talk on her experiences. Maryis a frequently booked speaker on her incredible life story and attitude towards living and self-help, and having now heard it myself it I'm not at all surprised as to why. Essentially, she is pretty intimidating whilst also being the loveliest person possibly ever. We worked together at NCS, or the National Citizen Service, an enormous social enterprise helping young people all over the UK, and although I had no idea at the time the extent of her talents or the darkness in her past it was blindingly obvious that there was definitely something about Mary.   I just wanted to say before we start that although I promise this journey has a happy ending, we do talk briefly about sexual violence, and in some more detail about maternal mental health, postnatal depression and psychosis, suicide and abuse. I wanted to place this up front. If it's not for you, no problem, just click the fast forward button on the episode as you listen.   Mary's childhood was a pretty stormy one, to say the least, and never in a million years would you guess it. You'll know exactly what I mean as she starts speaking - she laughs often and freely and is relentlessly sunny and upbeat. With spells of being fostered, Mary suffered from life changing serious abuse from her own father. She was removed from her home at 17, became a stepmum at 19 to 3 children under 5, and then a mum herself at 21 with a man who was 16 years her senior. She was also trying to run 2 businesses, and deal with a deeply upsetting rift in her relationship. The relationships described in this episode really made me think about the fine line in our families and romances. Passion, love, control and coercion can too often become intermingled, and more of us than we think have perhaps had a partner like this at one time or another, where with the highs come enormous lows. Mary's harrowing experiences in this vein made me reflect a great deal about what this can do to our self-confidence and approach to life, and how confusing abuse must be at the hands of a close relationship. Mary ended up standing on the edge of Tower Bridge with her baby boy, and about to jump, before something intervened in her life. The rest is a wild and winding story to get her to where she is now - doing what she absolutely loves with incredible success and optimism, despite an impossible past. Introducing, Mary Daniels.

Brett’s lifelong mission is to help every child access an excellent education. He wrote the original business plan and founded Teach First and led the organisation for fifteen years, helping to build it into one of the UK’s leading movements to tackle education inequality and the largest graduate recruiter in the country. He is co-founder and was Deputy CEO of Teach For All, which has brought the model to over 50 countries around the world. His current focus is as co-founder and CEO of Tiney, a digital platform that aims to improve the quality of early years education and as the non-executive chairman of the UK's National Citizen Service. He is also a trustee & co-founder of Teach First Israel and the UK Fair Education Alliance. He received an OBE for services to education in 2012 and has been named one of the Evening Standard's 1000 most influential Londoners five years in a row. Founders365 is hosted by business coach Steven Haggerty and shares 365 insights from 365 founders during 2020.

'Shiny New Object' is a podcast about the future of marketing. Each episode is a conversation with an insightful and influential leader in the industry about the latest tech, trend or talking point to catch their eye. Host: Tom Ollerton Founder of Automated Creative.

'Shiny New Object' is a podcast about the future of marketing. Each episode is a conversation with an insightful and influential leader in the industry about the latest tech, trend or talking point to catch their eye. Host: Tom Ollerton Founder of Automated Creative.

Myles McCaulskey hosts the fourth of our Unstoppable Sessions with NCS. We have partnered with NCS to present a series of conversations and discussions about the issues that matter most to you. Each month a different W!ZARD Radio Station presenter will tackle a new topic and invite you to get involved in the conversation. For more details visit: wizardradio.co.uk/ncs

Alec Feldman hosts the third of our Unstoppable Sessions with NCS. We have partnered with NCS to present a series of conversations and discussions about the issues that matter most to you. Each month a different W!ZARD Radio Station presenter will tackle a new topic and invite you to get involved in the conversation. For more details visit: wizardradio.co.uk/ncs

Mindset Explosion Season 1 (2018), Episode 079 - Are you Ready to Feel Unstoppable, opportunity for 16 to 17 year olds, National Citizen Service. https://www.ncsyes.co.uk Originally Recorded in 2018 for my Facebook Live Mindset Explosion Series. Stay Up to date with the live show on my Facebook page for Cheltenham Martial Arts. Currently at Season 2.... I will be uploading all of Season 1 and Season 2 over the coming weeks.... Get binge watching :-) or download them all now FREE at http://www.cmauniversity.co.uk https://www.facebook.com/martialartscheltenham/ or follow me on Instagram & IGTV @mindsetexplosion http://www.martialartscheltenham.co.uk ✌️ make today a great day, make this year amazing✌️ #mindsetexplosion #mindset #goals #fitness #martialarts #success #cheltenham #cheltenhammartialarts #wellbeing #chimpparadox #mentalhealth #health #life #love #business #ncyes

Tamzin Kraftman hosts the second of our Unstoppable Sessions with NCS. We have partnered with NCS to present a series of conversations and discussions about the issues that matter most to you. Each month a different W!ZARD Radio Station presenter will tackle a new topic and invite you to get involved in the conversation. For more details visit: wizardradio.co.uk/ncs

Benji Hyer hosts the first of our Unstoppable Sessions with NCS. We have partnered with NCS to present a series of conversations and discussions about the issues that matter most to you. Each month a different W!ZARD Radio Station presenter will tackle a new topic and invite you to get involved in the conversation. For more details visit: wizardradio.co.uk/ncs

Adam Williams is a clinical hypnotherapist who I met through my work with the National Citizen Service programme run by Exeter City football club. Adam specializes in anxiety management through 1-1 sessions, or delivering his Anxiety Regulation Workshops in Schools and Workplaces. If you are in the South West of England and want to check out what he does, head to: ajwilliamshypnotherapy.com or find him on twitter and facebook @ajwilliamshypno In this episode we talk about Adam's background, what hypnotherapy is and how it can help people, as well as a fair amount of tangents into areas such as emotional regulation, breathing and how Adam could not hypnotize me just by saying the word 'Penguin' randomly. I learnt an awful lot from Adam and have booked in for a session with him off the back of this podcast so will keep you posted on how that goes. He is also a great person to bounce ideas off of and I look forward to having him back on again in the future. This is my first interview and I perhaps didn't warn Adam I wouldn't really be editing it, so excuse the occasional bumpy bit and some whispered convos about starting over again.....I didn't let him as all of what he was saying was really interesting to me.

We chat to Olympic Hockey Player Helen Richardson-Walsh about Open University. Natasha Kizzie from the National Citizen Service has advice for parents who are struggling to help their teenagers with exam prep. Plus we discuss one of Britain's growing industries.

Stephen Greene is the CEO and a co-founder of RockCorps, a pro-social production company and global youth movement. RockCorps introduces people to a lifelong relationship with civic engagement by using the power of music to inspire volunteering. RockCorps produces large-scale pop, rock and hip-hop concerts, distributing tickets exclusively to volunteers, who commit four hours of their time at a RockCorps community project in their area. Through music, RockCorps is ‘Moving a Generation to Change the World’. With RockCorps, Stephen has delivered social engagement platforms in 10 countries around the world; including 50 volunteer-exclusive concerts, featuring music artists such as Pharrell, Lady Gaga, Maroon 5, Rihanna and over 100 more. His unique experience combined with a deep understanding of and passion for social action and youth engagement also enables him to provide strategic counsel to a wide range of organisations across the public, not-for-profit and private sectors. In November 2012, Stephen was appointed by UK Prime Minister, David Cameron to be the founding chair of the NCS Trust. NCS Trust is responsible for the management and delivery of National Citizen Service (to date over 130,000 graduates). Cameron said “I am delighted that Stephen Greene will be supporting this endeavour, as the founding Chairman of a new organisation to help deliver NCS. As the CEO of RockCorps, Stephen brings a wealth of experience in unlocking the power of young people and connecting them to opportunities to do good in their communities.” Stephen Greene is also a trustee of the Do-it Trust, Good Gym, The Fowler Center and has been an advisor to War Child UK.

There’s a ton of fun this Easter in Camden. The London Irish Centre has a week of plays in commemoration of the Easter Rising. Maiden Lane Community Centre has a full program of activities to keep the school holidays fun; People Places and Things, a play about addiction and recovery, has transferred to the West End; the National Citizen Service are putting on a night in celebration of young people who transform their communities at the Roundhouse. Written & Presented by: Denise O’Connor, Felicity Sylvester, Zoe Stegosaurus, Joseph Hughes, Freddy Chick Recorded and edited by: Rosie Turner and Freddy Chick London Irish Centre :: NCS Live at the Roundhouse :: Maiden Lane Community Centre :: People, Places & Things :: Back to Homepage :: Follow us on Twitter :: File Download (6:33 min / 6 MB)