Podcasts about sheffield city region

As we look forward to the Paralympics at Paris 2024, we're sharing this previous episode with Paralympian Dame Sarah Storey, which was first released on September 15, 2020.Dame Sarah Storey is  the most successful British female Paralympian of all time with 38 World titles, 14 Paralympic Golds and 76 world records.Sarah was just 14 when she made her Paralympic debut at Barcelona 92, winning five medals including two Golds. She went on to win more medals in the pool at Atlanta, Sydney and Athens before moving to cycling and winning more medals on the track and the road at Beijing, London and Rio. Sarah's also six times British national track champion.  Sarah, and her husband Barney, now run Storey Racing, and Sarah's also the Active Travel Commissioner for the Sheffield City Region.Thank you to Sport England who support The Game Changers Podcast with a National Lottery award.Find out more about The Game Changers podcast here: https://www.fearlesswomen.co.uk/thegamechangersHosted by Sue AnstissProduced by Sam Walker, What Goes On MediaA Fearless Women production

‘Sheffield Digital Insight' focuses on careers in the tech sector. In a series of interviews with people who work in the Sheffield City Region, we are starting a conversation about different roles, the skills you need or can expect to learn, and everything that is exciting and inspiring about working in tech.  This episode features Ryan Temple who is Head of Product Development at Tes. Sarah asks him about the main skills and tasks involved in the job, how his career has progressed, which parts of the job he finds challenging and which aspects he enjoys the most, and what it's like working for the company. Tes has evolved from a printed newspaper supplement to support schools and teachers with their work, into a leading education business and global digital community. In 2018, Tes opened an office in Sheffield and here the evolution continues, with the announcement of a new Engineering Hub in 2021 and the creation of 20 new roles in the city. You can find out more in our https://sheffield.digital/posts/company-spotlight-tes/ (company spotlight). Watch our series of interviews on the Sheffield Digital https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVA9LgwPRjNWzXAAD1tw-deBbfMwJzDvj (YouTube) channel and subscribe to the channel for new episodes. Find out more about the campaign on our https://sheffield.digital/posts/introducing-our-new-campaign-to-open-up-the-tech-sector/ (website). Subscribe to the podcast If you'd like to have new episodes of the show appear right in your podcast player, you can subscribe via our page on https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/sheffield-digital-podcast/id1272667962?mt=2 (Apple Podcasts) and follow the show on https://open.spotify.com/show/0FO0um2BlEcizMAa9HRpgj?si=89ba60a7e1bf41cd (Spotify), or search for us in your podcast app of choice! Notes and links Ryan was interviewed online by Sarah Lister, Membership Coordinator at Sheffield Digital, on 4th August 2022. Every episode comes with a list of links to the companies we reference. https://www.tes.com/ (Tes) https://sheffield.digital/ (Sheffield Digital) https://sheffield.digital/posts/introducing-our-new-campaign-to-open-up-the-tech-sector/ (Sheffield Digital Insight) Did we miss something you're looking for? Justhttp://sheffield.digital/contact ( get in touch and let us know).  Join the conversation We're really keen to get your feedback on the podcast. You canhttps://sheffield.digital/posts/episode-6-educating-digital-stars-of-the-future-with-the-sheffield-colleges-bella-abrams/ ( share your thoughts with us on Twitter) or on the channel in the https://sheffield.digital/slack (Sheffield Digital Slack community). Thank you for the music Thanks to Alex Mclean – https://yaxu.org/ (aka Yaxu) – for the show's intro music, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.

"We're not just hashtagging, we're actually doing something about it. I hope that gives anyone listening with a mental health problem strength: you don't have to be shut down, you don't have to be defined, you can take control."Kat Morley is the founder of Insight PR and Media. After studying journalism and winning awards for her coverage of wrestling, while living with her own mental health issues including PTSD and BPD, Kat launched the  #WeGetThat Campaign on social media, hit a crowdfunding target and launched her agency. She has made "bridging the gap between mental health and sustainable, productive employment" integral to her business. Her five-person firm has a dedicated mental health and wellbeing programme, and Kat shares the four elements of this with advice other small businesses can use. She also gives tips on crowdfunding, branding and winning attention for campaigns or businesses.Also on today's show: co-operatives are the UK"s best-kept business secret but tick all the boxes when it comes to building a better society, says Rose Marley, CEO of Co-operatives UK. With infectious enthusiasm and a stack of examples, Rose shows how co-operatives are thriving in all sorts of sectors.Rose has crucial advice too for new co-operatives about what to include in  your governing documents and tells us about the Ownership Hub, a partnership between the Employee Ownership Association (EOA) and Co-operatives UK. It has launched its first development hub, in the Sheffield City Region.Timings and links:0 - 3:17 introduction3:17 interview with Kat Morley, Insight PR and Media33:53 interview with Rose Marley54:06 wrapping upThanks for listening to the show.

In episode 16, “Accelerating the UK active travel market” we explored one of the most exciting areas of growth and opportunity within urban mobility, and why it matters so much to the Connected Places Catapult, and the future of healthy, connected and net zero places. Active travel is about creating options for us to move more. This can have a massive impact on our physical and mental health, the air quality in our overly congested cities by getting more commuters out of cars and onto bikes and footpaths, and the UK's collective effort of achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2050. In this episode we kick off a series of conversations we've been having with businesses, place leaders and experts in active travel. We ask what seizing this potentially huge opportunity for economic growth and public health and wellbeing looks like around the country. How do we design our cities for more active travel? How do we ensure that change is led by communities and accessible to all? And where are the opportunities, at home and abroad, for government and industry to get ahead of the curve? We begin by speaking to Dame Sarah Storey, one of the most decorated British athletes of all time and the Active Travel Commissioner for the Sheffield City Region. We also hear from Will Butler-Adams, CEO of Brompton Bikes, one of Britain's best known cycling brands and sold all over the world. Music on this episode is by Blue Dot Sessions and Phill Ward Music (www.phillward.com) Show notes To find out more about the Sheffield City Region's active travel programme, check out their Active Travel Implementation Plan, as well as the region's interactive Active Travel Map. You can click on these links to read the two UK government reports that are referenced in the episode – Gear Change: A Bold Vision for Cycling and Transport, and Decarbonising Transport: Setting The Challenge. To read and download the Catapult's Net Zero Places Innovation Brief, which explores a number of new market opportunities in the active travel sector, click here. On the 23rd June we're running an event on Connecting Homes for Healthy Ageing as part of our multi-year Homes for Healthy Ageing Programme which is contributing towards the UK Government's goal of supporting older people to live at home independently for 5+ years longer. We'll be exploring the barriers and opportunities for leveraging innovation to overcome the existing healthy ageing challenges in the UK. To register for free, click here.  On the 1st July we'll also be launching our UK Cities Climate Investment Commission, in partnership with Core Cities and London Councils. We'll be presenting some early-stage findings on the estimated Net Zero investment need of the UK's Cities. It's a piece of work that we've commissioned in the run-up to the COP26 Climate Change Summit in Glasgow later this year. To register for free, click here. To find out more about what we do at the Connected Places Catapult and to hear about the latest news, events and announcements, please sign up to our newsletter!

Dan Jarvis, Labour MP for Barnsley Central and Mayor of the Sheffield City Region says the best way to ensure the right level of devolution for Sheffield and enough Covid support is for him to retain both his roles. But Jarvis tells Bloomberg Westminster's Caroline Hepker and Roger Hearing communication between the government and the local authorities is much better than it was in the autumn, but there needs to be a clear message on the timing of the lifting of virus restrictions.  David Blagden, senior lecturer in International Security at the Strategy and Security Institute, at the University of Exeter, joins to discuss Britain's global role as it hosts the G7 summit in Cornwall. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Labour lost swathes of working class votes in 2019. Is “progressive patriotism” the answer to getting them back? And what does it even look like?Dan Jarvis, Labour MP for Barnsley Central, Mayor of the Sheffield City Region and author of the memoir Long Way Home Love, Life, Death and Everything in Between, talks to Alex Andreou about why love of country could be Labour's route back to power, why the left are so reluctant to be patriotic… and how his extraordinary life has shaped his political outlook.• “On numerous occasions in 2019 I prepared myself for a physical altercation, such was the anger on the doorstep.” • “In 100 years of the Labour Party, nobody has inherited a more difficult situation than Keir Starmer.” • “People want their MPs to have had real life experiences. I'm a better MP and Mayor because I've done other things.” • “COVID provides us with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to for radical change. I really hope we take it” • “It's entirely consistent to love your country, but also to want it to be better. And we haven't reached our potential.” Presented by Alex Andreou. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers Jelena Sofronijevic and Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Productionhttps://www.littlebrown.co.uk/titles/dan-jarvis/long-way-home/9781408710708/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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, apprenticeships can help businesses future-proof themselves while giving young people a head-start.As Director of Business Development for The Source, a charity operating since 2003, Dale works with employers across the Sheffield City Region and his enthusiasm for the life-changing power of apprenticeships is evident throughout this interview.Dale's own career journey began with an apprenticeship in a bank, and he's determined for businesses and young people alike to benefit from meaningful, fulfilling apprenticeships.We also cover:How The Source adapted throughout the pandemic pandemic to serve the region's businesses and local communities, getting people into training and qualifications that boost their confidence and grow their prospectsReopening its conference facilities and creating a new community learning zone Its traineeships which support people whose qualifications or confidence have really suffered and can lead into an apprenticeship or jobHow some of Sheffield's most innovative businesses are offering placements through the Government-funded Kickstart schemeThe Source's communication and marketing methods to engage with employers and young peopleDale's own inspirations in businessAlso in this episode: new funding opportunities and your chance to feature in a future show.Timings:0 - 2:19 introduction2:19 Dale Robinson of The Source Skills Academy38:55 Do you run a shop, pub, hairdresser or other business able to re-open from the 12th of April? Would you like to be on the show? How to get in touch and tell your story40:41 Funding opportunities for businesses and social enterprises from UnLtd, the foundation for social entrepreneurs and from the Steel Charitable Trust. Plus Skills Bank extension and wrapping up

In this episode, Shabnam Sahi rounds up the latest from Bollywood, Anushka Arora in conversation with Priyanka Chopra Jonas talking about her recently released memoir 'Unfinished' while Paul Shah talks bakwaas with Prince of Bhangra Sukhbir and Amit Sodha our resident Love Guru has more insights on love and relationships. In current affairs this week, Anila Dhami discusses Sir Keir Starmer's speech and the Labour Party's vision of post-pandemic life with Dan Jarvis, Labour MP for Barnsley Central and Mayor of the Sheffield City Region. The UK's number one commercial Asian station brings you a medley of stories, interviews, opinions and chat on matters we are passionate about - Bollywood, music, politics, books and more. Many of your favourite presenters from the radio, here to entertain you in a podcast.

Dave Hembrough is Founder and Head Coach at Sports Club Hallam Barbell, Sports Personality of the Year 2020 Unsung Hero for the BBC Yorkshire Region, and Lead Strength and Conditioning Coach at Sheffield Hallam University. Hallam Barbell is a weightlifting and strength training club, affiliated to British Weightlifting. Dave set up Hallam Barbell just over 10 years ago. At the time, he confesses, he didn't know what he was getting into. He had to embark on a learning journey to equip himself for leadership. Dave has had roles in strength and conditioning at national level for volleyball, table tennis, and diving as well as weightlifting, but none of that prepared him to run a club and to manage people. What he did learn from his time in performance sport was that helping people to beat an opponent didn't motivate him as much as helping people to be better, and healthier, and enjoy life more. At an early stage in the development of the club, Dave had the opportunity of a place on a leadership course run by Richard Field (http://www.integralleadership.com/prof-richard-field-obe.php (http://www.integralleadership.com/prof-richard-field-obe.php)), based on the ‘Integral Leaders Programme' (http://www.integralleadership.com/ (http://www.integralleadership.com)). This was a formative experience for him. One outcome of the course was that he developed a purpose statement that grounds him and helps him steer in the right direction: “To find happiness and commitment, for me, and those around me as best as I can, through being positive and future focused, supportive, caring, and compassionate, and by making a difference through action.” Hallam Barbell is a small, relatively new, and growing organisation that relies heavily on its team of volunteers. He recognises the need to support that team and for them to be enjoying the journey, contributing, and active. Where you arrive is “not always where you set out to go but that's part of the fun of the adventure as well.” Developing people is a priority for Dave. Development is part of what the volunteers rightfully expect in return for participation in the club. He runs a strength and conditioning mentorship programme at Sheffield Hallam University. During Covid he has run a mentoring programme for coaches, involving a monthly meeting, a buddy system providing for regular one-to-ones (for which Dave provided a framework), and also a one-to-one with Dave every two to three weeks. One of Dave's proudest achievements is that when he stepped back from Hallam Barbell for a couple of months following the birth of his daughter, the programme he had developed ran in his absence. He thinks great leaders make themselves dispensable. Similarly, when the club is hosting a competition he organises it so that he is a “spare part” and everyone else is doing the doing. He sums it up by saying the thing he is proud of is the people who have taken and run with the opportunities the club has offered them. The biggest challenge for Dave has been managing individuals. He uses the term ‘coaching tightrope' to describe the balance that needs to be struck between support and challenge, which in turn requires listening, and understanding. He is still working at this. During Covid Hallam Barbell were unable to use their original gym, and a company called Kitlocker (https://www.kitlocker.com) stepped forward to provide space. Between Covid lockdowns the club has had more sessions, and more participants. “It just shows that we've got the right traction, the right momentum, the right people.” They're currently going through a rebranding process that will position them for what's next. The end goal is to coach more people throughout the city region and beyond and positively affect more lives. Previously Professor Rob Copeland of Sheffield's Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre has featured on the Compassionate Leadership Interview (episode 15). In 2021 the AWRC will launch a Leading Health and Wellbeing...

"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; others experience overwhelm and burnout, or never stop working. He has strategies to protect and support you and your colleagues' health and wellbeing. Born and raised in a working-class part of Sheffield, Mike now lives in Chesterfield. But as a young man he had to move to London to access employment opportunities: covert racism in Sheffield proved an enormous barrier. Has that changed? Is the city a better place now for a young Person of Colour?Mike "could talk for a week about some of the challenges I've had to overcome." Alongside his one-to-one practice in Sheffield, he now works with many corporate firms and large organisations, enabling them to address discrimination, bias and barriers to inclusivity. He describes initiatives and action, underway and needed, to create a level playing field for all.It's been a year of immense stress: the pandemic, losses of family and friends, concerns for people's health, living under restrictions, businesses going under or at risk of it, and horrifying injustices. Mike supports people with depression and experiencing anxiety, so how does he protect himself and what did he do differently this year?Mike is also frank about a period in his life when his own confidence took a battering and how he addressed this, and describes practical actions you can take to protect and build your own.Timings:0 - 2:06 Introduction.2:06 How to address isolation, prevent burnout, and protect yourself from a festive "tipping point."11:08 Because of discrimination Mike moved from Sheffield to London to develop his career. He talks about this, the impact of the world witnessing the horrific killing of George Floyd this year, Black Lives Matter, and initiatives and action to create a level playing field for all.27:29 How Mike looked after his own health and wellbeing during 2020.30:29 The book "Man's Search for Meaning" by Viktor Frankl has been transformational for many, including Mike: why does he recommend it?33:50 Mike is a co-author of "Confidence: How to Have it and Keep it," published this year. He describes some of his own experiences.38:10 How Mike found mentors.39:30 Realistic advice for business leaders about listening, asking questions and building trust.44:39 How to find Mike Lawrence Health and Wellbeing online, and the book.46:05 Some thank-yous.47:02 Business grants available in the Sheffield City Region.48:37 Wrapping up.

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, director and network co-ordinator at Transition Liverpool CIC joined me for today's show, episode #320.He originally got in touch after I asked social entrepreneurs and purpose-driven business leaders to nominate the books which have had the biggest impact for them.In this episode, Paul covers three books (two of which I've read and know to be both brilliant and urgently applicable):Kate Raworth's Doughnut Economics (shortlisted for the FT/McKinsey business book of the year; named one of Forbes' best business books)Rob Hopkins' From What Is to What If (an imaginative tour de force showing how to change societies for the better)and Matthew Bolton's How to Resist, crammed with effective strategies for changemaking. Plus we discuss the green economy and yesterday's comments from Chris Stark, the chief executive of the Committee on Climate Change, that achieving net zero carbon emissions in the UK is likely easier than previously thought – and can be done to quickly improve the lives of millions.Also in this episode: a new business grant scheme in Sheffield; the Reset 2020 Festival of Social Enterprise; and the British Library's Start-Up Day.Timings:0 - 3:10 Introduction3:10 Paul Riley, Transition Liverpool CIC4:15 Discussing Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth15:07 Discussing From What Is to What If by Rob Hopkins24:17 Discussing How to Resist by Matthew Bolton30:10 Transition Liverpool CIC, its mission and actions to achieve this including sPark It Liverpool 33:19 What were the barriers to becoming a CIC?36:00 Reaching net-zero, making lives better: are we doing enough and what should we do? How to create great green jobs42:30 Forthcoming events including the British Library's Start-Up Day (with a Business & Intellectual Property Centre Sheffield session with Kisha Bradley)46:46 The Reset Festival in Sheffield City Region and International Social Enterprise Day48:25 new Business Grant scheme in Sheffield City Region49:40 Wrapping up and a Happy Birthday to Sheffield Live on FM radio

A fitness tracker for UK manufacturers to measure and improve productivity – from the shop floor to the top floor is being tested with Yorkshire companies by a tech start-up that has grown out of the University of Sheffield’s globally recognised Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC). FourJaw Manufacturing Analytics (FourJaw.com) is the brainchild of AMRC Commercialisation Manager Chris Iveson and Machining Project Engineer Robin Hartley. They have developed a new Manufacturing Execution System that can unlock valuable data hidden within machine controllers and converting it to ‘deep insights’ that enable production managers to turbocharge their productivity. “We are finding that many manufacturing companies struggle to understand what is happening on the shop floor. It is effectively a black box for them,” says Iveson, who believes FourJaw’s technology will open that box. With financial support from the Royal Academy of Engineering, Hartley is now an Enterprise Fellow. From the University of Sheffield’s commercialisation arm, the pair are now taking their technical know-how and building a business around it. “It’s been a lot of hard work, late nights and busy weekends, but this is a massive opportunity to augment the technical excellence of UK manufacturers with the world-beating productivity that modern technology enables,” says Mr Hartley. What they are talking about is nothing less than a digital transformation, but the FourJaw founders are cautious as the UK manufacturing sector has been bombarded with promises of digital transformation for years. Unfortunately, many of these digital solutions have been overhyped only to under-deliver. This has left manufacturers jaded and believing digital technologies offer little value in a real-world ‘shop floor’ setting. The pair understand the difficulties of manufacturers, painting a picture of an industry where performance is difficult to measure, competitively pricing jobs is more of an art than a science, and scheduling production is a daily struggle. Even when firms put systems in place and collect data from their machines, Iveson and Hartley find they offer limited value and that firms struggle to turn ‘data’ into actionable information. They recall recent conversations with manufacturers, where it is common to find average utilisation rates of around 50% across all the machines on the shop floor. “The problem is, that rate is across all machines and it’s really hard to trace the root cause. Is it an individual machine, a troublesome component, unexpected downtime or a production bottleneck? We created FourJaw to give manufacturers these answers and allow them to see what is actually happening on the factory floor,” Hartley says. FourJaw can do this by getting inside the brains of the machine, the CNC. This is what actuates the motors to achieve the complex geometries needed to make a part. For all but a few firms, the raw data stored inside these brains is so difficult to translate into knowledge, it is simply discarded as a form of digital swarf. This prompted Hartley to set up a research project to decipher the stored data and turn it into information that could give manufacturers the competitive edge over lower-cost economies. Having achieved this goal, however, Hartley and Iveson were still short of a smart system that manufacturers could simply plugin and play. A system that not only extracts data from the control units, but turns it automatically into insights. To achieve this, the two entrepreneurs turned to Sheffield-based software engineers, Razor, to perfect a technology that interfaces with, and extracts data from, complex and varied machine tools, before securely sending the data to the cloud for detailed analysis. “This required some serious thought, a lot of creative thinking and software engineering skill,” says Jamie Hinton, CEO of Razor. “The entire process was agile – properly agile. Our understanding and direction changed regularly, as we were in totally uncharted waters with the problems being faced.” Focusing in on a subset of the most popular control units, adapters were created that could be remotely installed in the factory and talk to the CNC controllers in their native language/protocols. These adapters extract data, push it securely to the cloud and then process it in a variety of ways, creating insights that are bespoke to the needs of stakeholders at several levels of the manufacturing business. During development, iterations of the adapters were installed at the AMRC’s Factory of the Future with live data streaming being processed in real-time. The AMRC’s Deputy Head of Digital, Jon Bray, says: “This is a beautiful example of what can happen when digital meets manufacturing. You can only get this kind of breakthrough when you bring really, really good software guys into close collaboration with really detailed engineering knowledge to interpret what the software is telling you.” FourJaw is business of entrepreneurs that wanted to simplify the process further for ease of adoption and usability. They have now teamed up with Sheffield based software development and technology company, The Curve, whose on-demand technical expertise and ‘big data’ know-how is being used to develop an app to present data analytics in a readily digestible format for production managers. “It’s been great working with another recent start-up, but one with an incredible pedigree,” says Iveson of the firm set up by Paul Ridgway former CTO and co-founder of telematics firm The Floow. Paul Ridgway who is also a software engineering graduate of the University of Sheffield said: “Productivity in the current market is key to the viability of any business, helping free-up resource, lower costs and ultimately beat competitors.” “The analytical solutions FourJaw are providing are incredibly important and it has been fantastic to help make this accessible to the market.” The FourJaw business model is ‘software-as-a-service’. A sort of ‘Netflix or Spotify’ for manufacturing execution systems. Instead of paying a huge up-front cost, which is a significant barrier to adoption, particularly for SME’s, and a blocker to FourJaws’ growth, manufacturers pay a much more affordable rental each month for use of the system. “That means the manufacturer gets continuous updates to the software, seamlessly rolled out from the cloud just as Netflix does for its subscribers,” says Iveson, who sees their affordable product being an invaluable tool for thousands of SME’s. “At the moment, there is a small amount of on-site installation required. The vision is that in the future, the installation will be as simple as sending a purpose-built computer to the customer with all the software fully loaded, which they plug into their shop-floor network enabling us to access the machine data and feed it back as knowledge.” Bringing old machines into the digital age But what if the manufacturer has old machines with no connectivity, which is not uncommon? Here, too, FourJaw has come up with a solution. By retrofitting a sensor system directly to the CNC machine, Iveson and Hartley can bring even an ancient Bridgeport into the digital age. While this low-fidelity option does not tap into the rich data source of the CNC controller, with a bit of clever analysis, there is still a lot to be gained using sensor signals. The insights are valuable for driving productivity improvements and providing much-needed visibility for older machines. Despite the different data collection methods, all insights generated by FourJaw are presented in a single unified view of the shop floor, allowing manufacturers to ignore the software technicalities and get on with what they do best, making parts! Ironically, establishing a start-up in the midst of a global pandemic is less a threat than an opportunity for FourJaw. “We are finding it easier to get to talk to the right people than before, and not having to travel to set up a meeting is a big bonus,” says Iveson. Add to this the fact that the team are working to develop the technology to be installed remotely, and Iveson feels that this could be an ideal opportunity for global medium-sized firms to harness the power of industrial digitalisation. Iveson continues: “Look around the Sheffield City Region and you will see global leaders in manufacturing whose strength lies in their power to continually innovate.” Think AESSEAL in Rotherham, where Iveson spent his early career or Gripple in Sheffield. Increasingly, we are seeing the emergence of a new breed of software engineer keen to exploit the boundless opportunities that come from working with the grain of the region’s historic manufacturing base. Jamie Hinton and Paul Ridgway are in the vanguard of the ‘digital meets manufacturing renaissance’, and are seeing the benefits not just for their own businesses but for the wider prosperity of the region. As Hinton says: “You don’t get much better than helping a brand-new business being formed and the first customer created. FourJaw is now in production and receiving some incredible feedback. We are astonishingly proud of being a part of its journey and being instrumental in bringing it to market.” 

How do you make sales easy? What's the difference between a prospect and a suspect – and why should you treat each differently?Steve Knapp is the author of a best-selling sales book and one of the people behind a programme called Plan.Grow.Do, which offers fully funded training here in the Sheffield City Region. He has plenty of tips about effective selling in today's show, and describes the structure and content of the Plan Grow Do programme – perhaps your business could benefit?Andy Freeman of Space to Breathe was one of 50 business leaders who piloted Plan Grow Do earlier this year. The results for Andy were transformational - he describes how in this episode.Also on today's show: the Chancellor's Winter Economy Plan statement included a replacement for the furlough scheme, and a number of other measures designed to support businesses and protect jobs. Will they do that? We cover what they are and some reactions.Plus Danny Kruger's new report, Levelling up our Communities, was published this week. Commissioned by the government, it includes measures which might enable more social enterprises and small businesses to win public sector contracts. Details of those later on.

Dame Sarah Storey is the most successful British female Paralympian of all time with 38 World titles, 14 Paralympic Golds and 76 world records. Sarah was just 14 when she made her Paralympic debut at Barcelona 92, winning five medals including two Golds. She went on to win more medals in the pool at Atlanta, Sydney and Athens before moving to cycling and winning more medals on the track and the road at Beijing, London and Rio. Sarah's also six times British national track champion. Sarah, and her husband Barney, now run Storey Racing, and Sarah's also the Active Travel Commissioner for the Sheffield City Region. This series of The Game Changers is supported by Sport England, who have done so much to tackle the inequalities women face across all areas of sport.

In episode 64 of the Sheffield Digital Podcast, Mel and Chris share some updates from the city’s digital sector. It’s one of those shows for you to catch up on all the news and hear what’s coming in the community. Topics and exciting information covered includes: the Sheffield Digital Festival re-boot (Nov 16–22) the Council is asking videos in a bit to help young people get into digital lots of policy debates happening as things pick up again the Sheffield City Region strategic economic plan consultation the Sheffield Local Plan consultation the recent Meta Meetup event for meetup organisers a great off from the Developer Academy. Go and get your muffs and listen up. Don’t forget, you can always join the info@sheffield.digital (mailto:info@sheffield.digital) to get in touch and share your thoughts.  Subscribe to the show If you’d like to have new episodes of the show appear right in your podcast player, you can subscribe via our page on Apple Podcasts (https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/sheffield-digital-podcast/id1272667962?mt=2) or search for us in your podcast app of choice! Notes and links Every episode comes with a list of links to all of the various people, companies and topics that we reference.  Sheffield Digital Festival 2020 (https://sheffielddigitalfestival.com/) Sheffield Digital Festival goes Virtual and Augmented – Sheffield Digital (https://sheffield.digital/posts/sheffield-digital-festival-goes-virtual-and-augmented/) New fast track developer training to fill region’s skills gap – Sheffield Digital (https://sheffield.digital/posts/new-fast-track-developer-training-to-fill-regions-skills-gap/) Join our Slack community – Sheffield Digital (https://sheffield.digital/slack/) Meet our members | Sheffield Digital (https://sheffield.digital/membership/meet-our-members/) Become a member of Sheffield Digital (http://sheffield.digital/membership) Did I miss something you’re looking for? Just get in touch and let me know (http://sheffield.digital/contact).  Join the conversation We’re really keen to get your feedback on the podcast. You can Sheffield Digital Slack community (https://sheffield.digital/slack). Thank you for the music Thanks to Alex Mclean – aka Yaxu (https://yaxu.org/) – for the show’s intro music, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. 

If you run online workshops, meetings or events this episode is a must-listen: it's crammed with practical tips to ensure your events are interactive and effective from two brilliant guests.Mihaela Gruia is founder and chief executive of Research Retold. Her business works with researchers to help them communicate their findings in effective ways.One of Research Retold's activities is to run workshops with Universities. Mihaela has found the experience of moving her workshops online to be positive – mainly because she did a lot of planning to ensure they continued to be highly interactive.You can use the native functions of the technology platforms to facilitate this. Her tips cover what to do before, during and after your online workshop with lots of ideas which will really boost a workshop's effectiveness and the engagement of participants.Jill White is an entrepreneur and business champion, well known by hundreds in the Sheffield City Region. Lately, Jill has been running a number of online events helping business leaders to stay connected, to collaborate and to identify new opportunities. There's been real impact as a result.Again Jill has plenty of ideas about how to make online get-togethers effective. And she describes how her business, Andy Hanselman Consulting, is pivoting and helping other businesses to identify new opportunities too (plus flags up some excellent and highly subsidised online training).Listeners are also welcome to participate in Jill's forthcoming groups, including 3DConnect, the female entrepreneurs and directors group, and the next unLTD Business Magazine online event.In this episode I also run through some new sources of funding and support for businesses and social enterprises.Links in the show-notes at https://www.jamieveitch.co.uk/category/interviews

In this seventh episode of the season of the Her Spirit podcast BBC Breakfast presenter Louise Minchin and BBC Triathlon presenter Annie Emmerson talk to Dame Sarah Storey.Sarah has competed in 7 Paralympic Games (3 in cycling as Sarah was previously a swimmer), Sarah is now Great Britain’s longest serving athlete. Sarah began her Paralympic career as a swimmer, competing in four games: Barcelona 1992, Atlanta 1996, Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004, picking up a combined total of five gold, eight silver and three bronze medals.Following Athens Sarah decided to make the switch to para-cycling and has enjoyed incredible success as she not only dominated para-cycling events but has also enjoyed significant success in non-disabled events.Having given birth to her second child in October 2017, Sarah announced her return to international competition with a dominant display to win two gold at the 2018 Paracycling Road World Championships and since then at the 2019 Track World Championships Sarah won 2 gold and a silver, along with securing victory in the Omnium test event and briefly holding the Flying 200m Time Trial world record before it was broken two minutes later.She was appointed at in May 2019 as Active Travel Commissioner for the Sheffield City Region. Her role will involves championing active travel and working alongside Mayor Dan Jarvis to create a region in which more people travel on foot, by bike or by public transport.She talks openly about her relationship with food, which in her teens wasn't a very positive one, and being close to being hospitalised with an eating disorder. Her approach now is about being strong and not being obsessed with numbers to determine your own health.Her mantra is about being the best version of you and the team hashtag #BestVersionOfYou.These podcasts have been made possible through the support of Medichecks www.medichecks.com and Sport England www.sportengland.org.For more information on Her Spirit go to www.herspirit.co.uk

Not one but two guests in this latest Business Live radio show.Tom French supports people to use data and evaluation better. He covers some examples of his work and how it helps to inform decisions, and has advice on what to think about when you're collecting or analysing data.Tom is also part of Sheffield Data for Good and tells me about a recent collective effort with powerful results.Also on the show: Daniel Stanbra of the Source Skills Academy. Would you like to boost your skills or help isolated staff boost theirs?The Source, a registered charity, has made a variety of free-to-access training courses available online and through posted learning packs. Daniel tells me what they are and how his organisation acted rapidly to support Sheffield City Region businesses.

Tony Stacey is Chief Executive of South Yorkshire Housing Association, who own over 6,000 homes in the Sheffield travel to work area. There are around 1,000 housing associations in the country. SYHA is a standout: the social housing regulator has made a case study of it on account of the scope and impact of the initiatives that it has taken in service of its tenants. They answer their ‘why' question by saying that “with SYHA, you can settle at home, live well, and realise your potential.” They maintain their focus on this purpose by deliberately limiting their activities to the Sheffield City Region. They are fiercely independent, resisting the popular trend for housing associations to merge and operate far from their original local roots. In recent times they have turned down invitations to take over other housing associations outside of their area. On the other hand, they are very open to working in collaboration and partnership with local organisations: Tony observes they would be more likely to merge with a health trust than with a housing association. In their “Housing First Programme”, SYHA first ask what strengths the tenant can bring to the tenancy and then what support they need to sustain their situation. SYHA is in the Sunday Times Best 100 Not-for-Profit Organisations to Work For. Tony puts this down to the time the organisation spends thinking about leadership and culture; “what is it that engages people at a human level and what is it that alienates people.” The organisation has taken Jim Collins' book ‘Good to Great' to heart and looks to develop the humility (as well as the steely determination to succeed) that is the hallmark of Level 5 leaders. A few days after he became Chief Executive, Tony was asked what he was going to do. He said he knew what he wasn't going to do and that was sack the top team. “People feel they have to make their mark by being disrespectful about what happened in the past … bringing in people that are like them, with their kind of values … we do things differently [at SYHA].” SYHA puts a great deal of emphasis on the recruitment process. What a person stands for, how they behave and what motivates them comes before their knowledge – they can always acquire the latter through training. Tony is competitive and likes to see SYHA leading the pack, but by nature he is a collaborator: “Most of what we do, our big successes, have been in partnership with other organisations.” He is shortly to meet Ed Milliband, one of the commissioners of the Shelter report that considered the future of social housing post the Grenfell tragedy. He will be with tenants of and people who work for other housing associations, local authorities and ALMOs (arm's length management organisations). Trust and accountability are key issues for SYHA, but Tony feels that they are far better off working through the associated issues with others than alone. I asked Tony whether the diversity of his tenants is reflected in the diversity of his management team. In the majority of his tenancies the head of the household is a woman. The director of development at SYHA is a woman, as is the manager of their new build programme and of their maintenance programme. Tony rates today's SYHA as his greatest work-related achievement. In terms of its scale of activities and its ambition it is a different organisation to the one he took over. The workforce has grown from 90 to 750. They have set up an estate agency, they have a joint venture company with other housing associations to develop housing for sale, and they are running a randomised control trial on behalf of the Department of Work and Pensions. One of the managers in SYHA set up a session called “Oops, that's interesting, I've made a mistake.” Tony was first up and one of his disclosures...

Do you have a plan in place before you make a sales call? Do you know enough about your clients before you dial? Do you have responses at the ready, and can adapt to unexpected changes in the conversation? In this episode of INSIDE Inside Sales, Darryl speaks with the globally renowned Steve Knapp, Founder of The Sales Mindset Coach. Darryl and Steve chat about the importance of putting a pre-call plan in place well before you ever dial the phone. Using Steve’s 5-step “WOPPA” Program, they delve into visualizing outcomes, keeping your objective in focus, and how to stay in control of the conversation. Learn how to better move your opportunities forward on this episode of INSIDE Inside Sales! About Darryl's guest: Steve Knapp’s inspirational selling techniques are still the cornerstone of one of the world’s biggest brands – and they’re now raising the game of small businesses right across the Sheffield City Region. The Bamford-based entrepreneur started his sales career at the very bottom – selling Calor Gas cylinders door-to-door in the late 1980s – but advanced it to the very top. He rose through the ranks at Shell to become responsible for the success of the company’s sales teams right across the globe – his selling methods and ‘mindset’ techniques were adopted right across the business. In fact, the sales handbook written by Steve Knapp still helps maintain the company as one of the world’s most recognized brands today.But throughout his career he was very aware that sales is a sector with an image problem – from PPI mis-selling to double-glazing horror stories, it has traditionally been in the news for all the wrong reasons. He’s now taking the very best of what he has learned from three decades in the industry and using it to help turn the small business community of the Sheffield City Region into one of the best performing business sectors of its type in the UK. ___________________________________________ INSIDE Inside Sales is hosted by Darryl Praill, CMO of VanillaSoft which is a program on the Funnel Radio Channel.  VanilaSoft is the sponsor for Inside Inside Sales.     

We’re just over halfway through Sadiq Khan’s term as mayor of London – and just under half-way through most of the various other metro mayors’ own terms elsewhere in the country. What better time, then, to drag the New Statesman special correspondent Stephen Bush back into the podcast bunker to ask how this whole mayor thing is going?To that end, we discuss the three candidates on the shortlist to be the Tory candidate in London’s 2020 mayoral election, how good Khan’s record really is, and whether he’s in any way beatable. We also discuss how the Labour primary is destined to become the real contest in Manchester and Liverpool; how the Midlands, Tees Valley and West of England are likely to be up for grabs next time round; and why more mayoralties are unlikely to materialise any time soon. Oh, and also how the Sheffield City Region, tragically, may not be long for this world.On that note: next week, we’re off to Yorkshire. Skylines is the podcast from the New Statesman’s cities site, CityMetric. It’s hosted by Jonn Elledge.Skylines is supported by 100 Resilient Cities. Pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation, 100RC is dedicated to helping cities around the world become more resilient to the physical, social and economic challenges that are a growing part of the 21st century. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

As I write, it’s local elections day here in England. There are elections in large chunks of the country, but to my shame I’ve only really been paying attention to two: the London borough ones (where there’s a lot of tension around how they might go for the various parties), and the Sheffield City Region mayoral one (where there’s no tension whatsoever because we’ve basically known that Labour’s Dan Jarvis was a lock for months now).Anyway. I talk about those, briefly – but because we won’t have any results until some silly time this evening, our main feature this week is something else entirely.Caroline Crampton was for many years in charge of the internet here at the New Statesman, and is one of the hosts of our pop culture podcast Srsly. Last year, she took on a new role as head of podcasts, and moved to Merseyside to write a book about the Thames Estuary.So, all things considered, I thought it was about time I invited her onto Skylines to talk about it. She tells me how her parents’ journey from South Africa and her childhood in Kent inspired an interest in the estuary; how and why its human, natural and economic geography all differ so radically from the proper Thames, up-river; and why the towns of the estuary keep showing such an enduring enthusiasm for right-wing populist racists.She also tells a frankly horrific story about 600 Victorians who drowned in sewage. It’s a fascinating conversation.Next week, in all likelihood, will be the local election post mortem episode. See you on the other side.Skylines is the podcast from the New Statesman’s cities site, CityMetric. It’s hosted by Jonn Elledge. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Episode 14 of the Sheffield Digital Podcast is ready for you. It’s a good one, as we interviewed two of the candidates in the upcoming Sheffield City Region mayoral election: Hannah Kitching of the Liberal Democrats and Rob Murphy from The Green Party. We asked them about their plans for the region and, in particular, what they saw for the digital sector in the future. I think you’ll find it an interesting listen and thank you to those of you who sent us questions beforehand. I hope we covered most of your suggestions. It’s worth mentioning that we did ask all four candidates from the major parties. Conservative, Ian Walker, couldn’t make the show, but did record a short response to one of our key questions separately. That follows the conversation with Hannah and Rob. And Labour’s Dan Jarvis declines to come on the podcast, but did take part in a roundtable earlier in the week. Both Chris and Mel were at that meeting and offer their thoughts on what he said in this episode too. After all that, we go through the usual new and events from around Sheffield’s digital community. In particular, Chris offers more detail on the Urban Connected Communities 5G bid following the interview I did with Mark Gannon. I hope you enjoy this rather unique episode and, as always, do get in touch to let us know what you think. Now with chapters! Our episodes are typically split into at least two sections, which include an interview and then the latest news updates. You can now easily skip between these sections if you use an app that supports chapters! Notes and links Every episode comes with a list of links to all of the various people, companies and topics that we reference. Here is that list for episode 13. Hannah Kitching (@HannahK_LD) on Twitter (https://twitter.com/hannahk_ld?lang=en-gb) Councillor Rob Murphy | Sheffield Green Party (https://sheffieldgreenparty.org.uk/about-us/councillors/rob-murphy/) Ian Walker | for Sheffield Hallam (https://www.iangwalker.co.uk/) Dan Jarvis MP (https://www.danjarvis.org/dan_jarvis_for_mayor?splash=1) Coadec | The Policy Voice of Startups (http://www.coadec.com/?COLLCC=990311107) Episode 13: Mark Gannon on dotSHF progress and Sheffield’s Urban 5G Test Bed bid – Sheffield Digital (https://sheffield.digital/posts/mark-gannon-dotshf-5g/) Building a Digital Coalition for Sheffield – Mark Gannon – Medium (https://medium.com/@markgannon/building-a-digital-coalition-for-sheffield-65997ed2a3e7) dotSHF - Sheffield's Digital Coalition - DL100 (https://www.digileaders100.com/nominee/dotshf-sheffields-digital-coalition/) Government seeks major city to lead large-scale urban 5G test project | PublicTechnology.net (https://www.publictechnology.net/articles/news/government-seeks-major-city-lead-large-scale-urban-5g-test-project) CTX is a Sheffield startup with a tool for searching multiple services – Sheffield Digital (https://sheffield.digital/posts/ctx-sheffield-startup-search/) BusinessCloud homepage (http://www.businesscloud.co.uk/) Digital Business Drop-in event in Sheffield on 10th May – Sheffield Digital (https://sheffield.digital/posts/digital-business-drop-in-event-sheffield/) Home - UTC Sheffield (http://www.utcsheffield.org.uk/) Chris Dymond on Twitter: "How many secondary schools have a fully specced Cybersecurity Operations Centre?!” (https://twitter.com/chrisdymond/status/989178443647672325) Meet our members | Sheffield Digital (https://sheffield.digital/membership/meet-our-members/) Become a member of Sheffield Digital (http://sheffield.digital/membership) Did I miss something you’re looking for? Just get in touch and let me know (http://sheffield.digital/contact) . Join the conversation We’re really keen to get your feedback on the podcast. You can Sheffield Digital Slack community (https://sheffield.digital/slack) . Thank you for the music Thanks again to Alex

Episode 12 of the Sheffield Digital Podcast is now available for your listening pleasure. It features a conversation with Tom Wolfenden, Centre Manager of Sheffield Technology Parks, who talks about the new Cooper Project. It’s both a workspace and practical support for new startups and tech companies who want to get off on the right foot. In part two, I’m joined by Mel and Chris to go through all the latest news and updates from Sheffield’s digital sector. This time round, that includes the new software developer apprenticeship at The Sheffield College, the Sheffield City Region mayoral election, Smart City hackathons and lots of stuff from the recent meeting of the economy branch of dot.shf – the digital coalition. Then it’s on to the usual upcoming meetups and events, but not before a rather unexpected diversion into innovation theory. Go and grab your headphones. Enjoy your listening. Notes and links Every episode comes with a list of links to all of the various people, companies and topics that we reference. Here is that list for episode 12. Sheffield Technology Parks - Sheffield Technology Park (http://www.shefftechparks.com/) Tom Wolfenden | LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-wolfenden-3b92b721/) Cooper Project - A Supportive Startup Community - Sheffield Technology Park (http://www.shefftechparks.com/pages/cooper-project-a-supportive-startup-community) Huge tech hub in former Sheffield Co-op department store set to transform digital economy - The Star (https://www.thestar.co.uk/business/huge-tech-hub-in-former-sheffield-co-op-department-store-set-to-transform-digital-economy-1-9029279) More progress on software developer apprenticeship at Sheffield College – Sheffield Digital (https://sheffield.digital/posts/more-progress-on-software-developer-apprenticeship-at-sheffield-college/) Northcoders | The Coding Bootcamp For The North (https://northcoders.com/) SCR - About the Mayoral Election - Sheffield City Region (https://sheffieldcityregion.org.uk/about-us-governance-policy/about-the-mayoral-election/) Devolution – what does it mean for the tech sector? – Sheffield Digital (https://sheffield.digital/posts/devolution-what-does-it-mean-for-the-tech-sector/) Smart City IoT Hackathons from the Sheffield Things Network – Sheffield Digital (https://sheffield.digital/posts/smart-city-iot-hackathons-from-the-sheffield-things-network/) Sheffield - The Things Network Community (https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/sheffield/) Sheffield Hardware Hackers and Makers (http://www.sheffieldhardwarehackers.org.uk/wordpress/) Aelora (https://aelora.nl/#/intro) Sheffield’s Digital Coalition (@dotSHF) | Twitter (https://twitter.com/dotSHF) Sheffield’s 1st Annual Digital Conference – OUTPUTS – Sheffield Digital (https://sheffield.digital/posts/sheffields-1st-annual-digital-conference-outputs/) Simon Ogden | LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/simon-ogden-0257b780/) The imprisonment of Mary Queen of Scots in Sheffield (1570-1584) – History Scotland (https://www.historyscotland.com/articles/scottish-kings-and-queens/mary-queen-of-scots/the-imprisonment-of-mary-queen-of-scots-in-sheffield-1570-1584-mary) A city underground: the hidden secrets that lie beneath Sheffield - 'the Megatron' – Yorkshire Post (https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/our-region/south-yorkshire/sheffield/a-city-underground-the-hidden-secrets-that-lie-beneath-sheffield-the-megatron-1-8766015) Sheffield Creative Guild (https://sheffieldcreativeguild.com/) What Channel 4’s strategy announcement means for Sheffield – Sheffield Digital (https://sheffield.digital/posts/what-channel-4s-strategy-announcement-means-for-sheffield/) University of Sheffield wins bid to enhance collaboration on the Internet of Things - Latest - News - The University of Sheffield (https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/news/nr/sheffield-win-bid-internet-of-things-1.773528) Home -...

Obtaining finance is a perennial issue for businesses. But there are probably more options than ever before, with specialist and peer-to-peer lenders offering alternatives to the high street banks. In this podcast Mike Robinson, an asset finance broker and partner in Mulberry Asset Finance in Burton-in-Kendal, explains what’s available. And we introduce the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund, which offers loan and equity finance to Cumbrian SMEs. There’s more in the ‘Financing Your Business’ section of the Cumbria Business Growth Hub website, or call the Growth Hub on 0844 257 84 50. The Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund is supported by the European Regional Development Fund, the European Investment Bank, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and British Business Finance Limited, a British Business Bank group company. The NPIF covers the following LEP areas: Tees Valley Combined Authority, Greater Manchester, Cheshire and Warrington, Cumbria, Liverpool City Region, Lancashire, Humber, Leeds City Region, Sheffield City Region, York, North Yorkshire and East Riding. The project is receiving up to £140,359,192 of funding from the England European Regional Development Fund as part of the European Structural and Investment Funds Growth Programme 2014-2020. The Department for Communities and Local Government is the Managing Authority for European Regional Development Fund. Established by the European Union, the European Regional Development Fund helps local areas stimulate their economic development by investing in projects which will support innovation, businesses, create jobs and local community regenerations. For more information click here. The funds in which Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund invests are open to businesses with material operations, or planning to open material operations, in, Yorkshire and the Humber, the North West and Tees Valley. The British Business Bank has published the Business Finance Guide (in partnership with the ICAEW, and a further 21 business and finance organisations). The guide, which impartially sets out the range finance options available to businesses and provides links to support available at a regional level, is available here.

Obtaining finance is a perennial issue for businesses. But there are more options than ever before, with specialist and peer-to-peer lenders offering alternatives to the high street banks. In this podcast Mike Robinson, an asset finance broker and partner in Mulberry Asset Finance in Burton-in-Kendal, explains what’s available. And we introduce the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund, which offers loan and equity finance to Cumbrian SMEs. There’s more in the ‘Financing Your Business’ section of the Cumbria Business Growth Hub website, or call the Growth Hub on 0844 257 84 50. The Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund is supported by the European Regional Development Fund, the European Investment Bank, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and British Business Finance Limited, a British Business Bank group company. The NPIF covers the following LEP areas: Tees Valley Combined Authority, Greater Manchester, Cheshire and Warrington, Cumbria, Liverpool City Region, Lancashire, Humber, Leeds City Region, Sheffield City Region, York, North Yorkshire and East Riding. The project is receiving up to £140,359,192 of funding from the England European Regional Development Fund as part of the European Structural and Investment Funds Growth Programme 2014-2020. The Department for Communities and Local Government is the Managing Authority for European Regional Development Fund. Established by the European Union, the European Regional Development Fund helps local areas stimulate their economic development by investing in projects which will support innovation, businesses, create jobs and local community regenerations. For more information click here. The funds in which Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund invests are open to businesses with material operations, or planning to open material operations, in, Yorkshire and the Humber, the North West and Tees Valley. The British Business Bank has published the Business Finance Guide (in partnership with the ICAEW, and a further 21 business and finance organisations). The guide, which impartially sets out the range finance options available to businesses and provides links to support available at a regional level, is available here.

One of the enduring questions in English cities policy these days is: what's gone wrong in Yorkshire? Earlier this year, after all, a number of metropolitan regions – those around Birmingham, Manchester and Liverpool among them – all elected their first metro mayors. Yet neither of the conurbations in what was once the West Riding of Yorkshire – one centred on Leeds, the other centred on Sheffield – did the same. This is particularly surprising, since the Sheffield City Region deal was supposed to have been agreed ages ago.So: what went wrong – and is it likely to go right any time soon? To discuss this, I'm joined by a man who knows more about devolution policy in god's own country than anyone else on the planet, James Reed, the political editor of the Yorkshire Post. He tells a tale of power struggles, factionalism, back-stabbing and betrayal. It's like Game of Thrones, only with more transport funding.Skylines is the podcast from the New Statesman's cities site, CityMetric. It's hosted by Jonn Elledge. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

An apprentice who at 19 years old has already saved Rolls-Royce £10m; the author of a new report describing Sheffield as the beer capital of the world and a member of the team behind a rocket-powered car all feature in this week's Business Live radio show.The Bloodhound Supersonic car was the headline attraction at this year’s Get up to Speed with Engineering and Manufacturing (GUTS) event, held at MAGNA Science Adventure Centre on Wednesday this week.Bloodhound SSC is a jet and rocket powered car which will challenge for the world land speed record and is set to ultimately break the 1000mph barrier. Many of the parts for the car are designed and manufactured in the Sheffield City Region.I went along to the GUTS event where I interviewed Nick Naylor of the Bloodhound education and outreach team, and Jess Herbert, an apprentice at Rolls-Royce (supplier of jet engines for Bloodhound) who gave a superb presentation. Organisers Jackie Freeborn and John Barber of the Work-wise Foundation also spoke with me, as did attendees and exhibitors including Anne Wilson MBE of Numill engineering, and John Silker, CEO of MAGNA which hosted GUTS.Sheffield could justifiably be described as the beer capital of the world, according to a new report launched this week. The Sheffield Beer report examines the thriving brewing industry in the city: there are 57 breweries in the Sheffield City Region. But the report (available here) says the city is missing an opportunity to capitalise on this excellence, and through collaboration, promotion and education could achieve the worldwide recognition it deserves. I caught up with report author Pete Brown for an interview in the Sheffield Tap.Timings:0 - 7:51 introductions and updates, including details of a new Women in Enterprise report from the Federation of Small Businesses; a new initiative, the Buy Social Corporate Challenge, which launched this week to encourage corporates to buy from social enterprises; Responsible Business Week; some forthcoming events7:51 - 16:29 Pete Brown, author of the Sheffield Beer Report16:29 interviews from Get Up to Speed, including:17:28 Jackie Freeborn, Work-wise27:14 John Silker, MAGNA32:55 Chris Harrop, Pryor34:24 Nick Naylor, Bloodhound's education team39:07 Jess Herbert, apprentice at Rolls-Royce42:31 James Allen, Rolls-Royce44:04 Anne Wilson MBE, Numill Engineering47:06 Jim Lawson, the Wosskow Brown Foundation49:47 Lucy Machin and Lauren Browning, The University of Sheffield53:38 John Barber, Work-wise