This episode is full of human stories of kindness and possibly the best advice of all - be audacious, be cheeky, throw the embarassment out of the window, but ultimately listen to your heart.

https://www.thecowshed.org/

Thanks so much to Amelia, our guest presenter, and to Sally and Rebecca for sharing their story. If you would like to find out more - please visit https://www.thecowshed.org/what-is-the-cowshed/

Kaydiar is also looking to the future with their groundbreaking PROMorph technology, a revolutionary composite material set to disrupt the podiatry and orthotics industry. This new innovation aims to enhance recovery for patients using casts, braces, and other medically-prescribed orthotics, marking the next step in Kaydiar’s mission to make a lasting impact on healthcare. Tune in for an exciting conversation about innovation, entrepreneurship, and the drive to improve lives through cutting-edge medical technology.

visit www.kaydiar.co.uk

Together, we we explore the profound impact of the big guy himself on cultures worldwide, from the joy he brings to children to the timeless traditions he inspires. Father Christmas shares his thoughts on the power of storytelling and how his legend has been passed down through generations and how he creates a sense of magic in what he does. We also think about the true magic of Christmas—what it means beyond the gifts and decorations, and how we can all reconnect with the heart of the holiday season. Whether you're a believer or simply in the holiday spirit, this conversation will remind you of the joy, hope, and magic that make Christmas so special. Don't miss it!

Welcome to Series 2 of our podcast, where we explore the inspiring world of the Asthma UK Centre for Applied Research (AUKCAR). Following the insightful interview by Monica Fletcher in Series 1, this new series takes you behind the scenes to find out more about the people and work of the centre.

Find out more about Noelle's approach to coaching at https://coachnoelle.com/.

Read the report at https://www.ed.ac.uk/usher/aukcar/our-impact

https://www.asthmaandlung.org.uk/

https://coachnoelle.com/

In this episode, we hear from Tracy about how she built the biggest Public and Patient Involvement group in the world and the impact that co-creating research with patients has on outcomes.

Welcome to Series 2 of our podcast, where we explore the inspiring world of the Asthma UK Centre for Applied Research (AUKCAR). Following the insightful interview by Monica Fletcher in Series 1, this new series takes you behind the scenes to find out more about the people and work of the centre.

Read the report at https://www.ed.ac.uk/usher/aukcar/our-impact

https://www.asthmaandlung.org.uk/

Hilary is a passionate advocate of supported self-care of patients with asthma and COPD and finding ways to implement new ideas into clinical practice.

Welcome to Series 2 of our podcast, where we explore the inspiring world of the Asthma UK Centre for Applied Research (AUKCAR). Following the insightful interview by Monica Fletcher in Series 1, this new series takes you behind the scenes to find out more about the people and work of the centre.

Read the report at https://www.ed.ac.uk/usher/aukcar/our-impact

https://www.asthmaandlung.org.uk/

Join us as we hear how Gwyn is shaping future careers in respiratory research by implementing new ways of training the researchers of the future.

Welcome to Series 2 of our podcast, where we explore the inspiring world of the Asthma UK Centre for Applied Research (AUKCAR). Following the insightful interview by Monica Fletcher in Series 1, this new series takes you behind the scenes to find out more about the people and work of the centre.

Read the report at https://www.ed.ac.uk/usher/aukcar/our-impact

https://www.asthmaandlung.org.uk/

Chris leads work addressing air pollution and health effects, asthma and respiratory disease, infectious disease including tuberculosis, HIV and hepatitis, vitamin D biology and domestic violence. He has a published over 35 trials and meta-analyses of trials. He leads the NIHR-funded evaluation of the London Ultra Low Emission Zone.

Join us as we hear a sneak preview of the impact of the London Ultra Low Emission Zone on children's health and explore the idea that serendipity is important to creating great impact.

Welcome to Series 2 of our podcast, where we explore the inspiring world of the Asthma UK Centre for Applied Research (AUKCAR). Following the insightful interview by Monica Fletcher in Series 1, this new series takes you behind the scenes to find out more about the people and work of the centre.

Read the report at https://www.ed.ac.uk/usher/aukcar/our-impact

https://www.asthmaandlung.org.uk/

Aziz is a primary care academic and epidemiologist with substantial research interests in asthma/allergy and in leveraging the potential of health information technology and data science to transform the delivery of care and improve population health. 

Find out about the very real impact that data was able to have on people with asthma during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Welcome to Series 2 of our podcast, where we explore the inspiring world of the Asthma UK Centre for Applied Research (AUKCAR). Following the insightful interview by Monica Fletcher in Series 1, this new series takes you behind the scenes to find out more about the people and work of the centre.

Read the report at https://www.ed.ac.uk/usher/aukcar/our-impact

https://www.asthmaandlung.org.uk/

LFCA, a subsidiary of the Berlin-based NGO LFCA Umweltschuz e.V, is a membership organisation which gives its members practical knowledge and skills to drive lasting change within organisations who want to achieve sustainability goals.

With nearly 4000 members from organisations such as Spotify, Canva, Soundcloud and Draper Esprit, Chris explains the power of the ripple effect in achieving permanent positive sustainability improvements and how LFCA uses the power of networks to do just that.

His experience in bringing new foods to market, especially proteins, is unparalleled. Ralph brings to life the motivations behind the develoment of the Quorn product, some of its challenges and ultimately its success in being at the forefront of the meat-free protein revolution.

After nearly 9 years at American Express, he has (amongst many other things) deployed his expertise in his home county of Kent, England as a board member of Kent Savers Credit Union where he created and secured a Social Impact strategy to identify, measure and communicate the effect of basic financial products and services to members and communities across Kent.

He is also a board member at Kent Community Energy, a community-based network innovation project to achieve climate resilience for in Kent (England).

With over 1000 students across the length and breadth of the UK, Marianne's passion for a natural and immersive language learning shines through.

Meet Emma Hayhurst, a microbiologist and winner of a Discovery Award from the Longitude Prize. Emma is known for her passion for addressing inequalities in both healthcare and the gender balance in STEM businesses. This conviction has seen her make regular appearances at speaking engagements, on podcasts and even national press, TV and radio, including Woman’s Hour on Radio 4.

In this episode, Emma speaks passionately about the importance of treating UTIs effectively, but also on how investors are now recognising the importance of creating impact through their investment in Llusern.

You can meet Ehsan here and learn more about his work developing an AI engine that can assess the risk of Cardiovascular disease by imaging your eye during routine eye check appointments.

Richard Profit is CEO of the Cool Farm Alliance, a non-profit who's vision is to create a global food and agriculture system that builds soil carbon, mitigates climate change and allows for the restoration of ecological balance.

Their Impact Report is now available and charts the journey of the Cool Farm Tool since it began just over a decade ago.

• Take a look at how the Cool Farm Tool is being used around the world, by whom and the impact it's having.
• Collecting these impact stories has only just begun and the collection is already rich.
• You will find 14 impact stories that span the globe, with specific examples from 13 countries and six cases that span more than five countries.
• The crops represented include: cotton, coffee, dairy, sugar, wheat, tomatoes, potatoes, barley and more!

Specialising in classic texts in unusual locations for over 25 years, it brings the stories we know and love to life, performing in extraordinary spaces from the MINI car plant, The Bodleian Library, Oxford’s historic Covered Market to The London Library to online. 

In April 2020 the organisation moved swiftly to master the digital stage, pioneers in broadcasting live performances online. Creation Theatre inspire hundreds of children every year – not only through their productions but term time and holiday workshops both in Oxford and online. 

Her devotion to creating impact, particularly for women and girls, has been lifelong and complex, having worked in Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and Egypt.

https://mindyourbusiness.uk/

A team of researchers from Durham University, led by Professor Pablo Munoz, engaged in a collaborative research journey with a group of business owners to study a complicated problem: the deterioration of self-worth amongst business owners.

After 18 months, they found mismatches between expectations and experiences at three levels - purpose, autonomy and achievement - which surface as business owners reflect on execution, performance and fulfilment experiences.

So, it is not the stressful experiences or heavy workload themselves that trigger negative emotions, rather it is the compounding of incongruences between expectations of ideal states and actual experiences at the level of purpose, autonomy, and achievement.

Tackling issues of self-worth in new business creation is extremely important, because its deterioration has implications not only for their psychological functioning, but for the performance of the business. New business owners with diminished self-worth engage in rumination, frequently criticizing themselves and their abilities. They rarely welcome compliments and tend to focus on mistakes, leading to negative judgments and overly critical evaluations of their performance, and their value as business owners and human beings.

Existing support programmes are ill-equipped to tackle these problems, as they tend to focus on self-confidence and self-esteem.

The MYB programmes help business owners navigate through these incongruences and their effects and equip them with tools to rethink their businesses. We help them form more positive and stable conceptualizations of themselves and rebuild their businesses around them. Mixing wellbeing and business performance is now possible.

Our research was funded by UKRI and received the 2023 Best paper award for Excellence in Research on the General Topic in Entrepreneurship, presented by the National Federation of Independent Business in the USA.

https://www.superloaf.co.uk/

His company, Modern Baker is an emerging 'food-as-medicine' research company, as well as the UK's first healthy baking brand. It is seen as a potential disruptor within the food industry and at the vanguard of solving the UPF problem.

Its mission is become an Impact Unicorn, 'to have a positive impact on 1B people by 2028', putting purpose before profit all the way.

The company's essential platform technology is targeted fermentation, a word synonymous in many languages with alchemy, for very good scientific reasons. Operating in one of the most progressive areas of biotechnological research, digestive health and the human microbiome (gut health), Modern Baker identifies, develops and validates science to turn high volume packaged staple foods from a net negative for humankind, to a net positive. Much of the research has been (and still is) funded by 6 successive funding awards from Innovate UK.

Diet related chronic ill-health is paralysing healthcare globally, already costing trillions of dollars plus the wider societal impacts, and getting worse. Modern Baker is developing a consumer brand that will have a valuable role in the prevention and management of chronic lifestyle diseases, including obesity and diabetes.

In 2023 Modern Baker launched Superloaf into M&S and Ocado, the company's first proof-of-concept, nutrient-dense product, based on 6 years' research and development. An excited media has vested on Modern Baker a slew of positive headlines including 'Is This The Healthiest Loaf Of Bread Ever Made?'.

She was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to nursing and nursing education. She was named as a Fellow of The Queen's Nursing Institute in 2014. Fletcher is an Associate of the Center for Managing Chronic Disease at the University of Michigan.

https://www.ed.ac.uk/usher/aukcar

Since Tim exited agency life in 2016, he has still been using creativity to hep organisations discover what meaningful work is and how they can make a positive impact as a brand.

www.netgoodcity.co.uk

https://www.climaterealityproject.org/

3 Key Questions that Tim asks every Impact organisation:

1. What is it?
2. Who cares?
3. Why is it brilliant?

Read more:

https://shrockman.wordpress.com/2013/06/11/roll-up-roll-up-to-the-side-show/

https://shrockman.wordpress.com/2012/03/21/and-if-not-now-when/

Links:

https://www.cwplus.org.uk/

https://onelab.world/

https://www.ifow.org/

https://shiftdesign.org/