Welcome back to another episode of the Worcester Business Podcast! Here we have a great conversation with Chris Stoddard of Raisemore. Chris has been working in charity fundraising for about 40 years and has had some fantastic accomplishments. Chris is an expert in small charity fundraising - helping smaller charities secure the funding they need to help their cause, and run affective and long lasting charities. In this discussion we talk about what made Chris start his business, wh...

Wow! What a great chat for episode 22 of The Worcester Business Podcast! I spoke with Gillian Davies just before Easter, and it was one of my favourite podcasts to date! Gillian is the founder of Conteur - an award winning creative agency in Worcester that focuses on communications with a strong social purpose. You can hear Gillian's passion for what she does, and her team's commitment to these causes. She spent 10 years working for ITV before building this business, and has some great ins...

It was brilliant to speak with Daryl Mitchell for episode 21 of The Worcester Business Podcast! Daryl is Director of Cricket Operations at The Professional Cricketers'​ Association (PCA). He is a batsman for Worcestershire Country Cricket Club. We talk about his role as chairman of the PCA and his new position as director of cricket operations. Daryl has had a fantastic career on and off the pitch and explains how he got in to cricket, and how he became a leader. It is also a very exciti...

In this episode I got to speak to Sarah Watmore, a year after we first spoke. Last year we were just starting to hear about a corona virus. It had halted a lot of stock coming from China at the time. We spoke before we went into our first lockdown. When the first lockdown hit. Everything stopped. A year on and so much has changed. Sarah has pivoted to direct to consumer selling, as well as running Miss Milly wholesale, and getting ready to reopen as we come out of lockdown 3. S...

I spoke with Andrew Lavoipierre in this episode of The Worcester Business Podcast. Andrew is a business coach that helps business owners of all sizes to continually adapt, grow and build in this ever changing landscape. Working at ActionCoach; Andrew talks about helping to build high growth companies, and the challenges covid-19 has brought. I really enjoyed this conversation and it was a pleasure to learn more about the value a business coach brings to thier clients. You can ...

It was brilliant to speak with Simon de Garis on this episode of The Worcester Business Pocast. Simon is a Project Manager at Worcestershire County Council. He is passionate about helping businesses in Worcester get the support and funding they need to take their ideas and talents from concepts to actual businesses. He works a wide variety of people to bring ideas to life, and manage the intracacies of all the processes. We spoke about WINN, which supports and nutures innovation in W...

I had a brilliant conversation with Lorraine Griffiths about her plans for 2021. Lorraine is a virtual assistant in Worcester. She helps businesses around the country with blogging, article writing, social media management, bookkeeping, and a range of admin that can really help businesses and individuals grow and build this year. We spoke about how Covid-19 and the digitisation of the workforce has affected her clients, networking, and the city itself. You can connect with Lorraine on L...

It was a real pleasure to speak with Samantha Harman for episode 17 of The Worcester Business Podcast. Sam is the editor of Living Oxfordshire and runs her own business - 𝗛𝗲𝗹𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻 𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗦𝗧𝗬𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗚 & 𝗕𝗥𝗔𝗡𝗗𝗜𝗡𝗚 We spoke about her journey, how she helps her clients build confidence in themselves, reach for their goals, building self belief, and achieve what they know deep down that they want through transformative styling sessions. You ca...

It was a real pleasure speaking with Linda Smith, who is the CEO of Beta Den. A tech accelerator in Malvern Science Park, Worcestershire. We discussed the unique opportunity that Beta Den presents for businesses and entrepreneurs in the UK. Beta Den provides the location and environment for both entrepreneurs in residence and technology businesses to develop alongside the 5G testbed project team as they position new and existing companies to be at the forefront of future tech. We talked ...

I had a great chat with Gary Woodman CEO of The Worcestershire Local Enterprise Partnership. We talked about how Worcestershire has been thriving before Covid19 hit. He talks about the exciting work being done at Beta Den - A launchpad for tech entrepreneurs. The emmergence of a new economy, and move towards Net Carbon. Worcestershire's contribution and a move towards digitilsation of business. https://www.wlep.co.uk/ -- The Reputation Management Podca...