The Social Investment Business ‘An interview with…’ podcast series released on iTunes

24 August 2011

The Social Investment Business has made its monthly ‘An interview with…’ podcast series, which talks to leaders throughout the civil society and non-profit sector, available to download on iTunes.

The series has posed a mixture of provoking and fun questions to CEOs throughout the sector including Kate Bull from The People’s Supermarket, Rodney Schwartz from ClearlySo and Lord Victor Adebowale from Turning Point. Topics debated have ranged from health service reforms to Big Society, fair trade to opportunities for young people in social enterprise and the global social entrepreneurship market to social impact measurement. 

Sarah Brown, Interim Marketing and Communications Director at The Social Investment Business said: “We have been pleased with the reception of our podcast series and have been looking for ways to make it even more accessible. iTunes provides a fantastic platform for us to take another small step towards making social investment more mainstream and involving more people in the conversation.”

The podcast series currently consists of 10 episodes which have received almost 1,000 listens in total, the most popular episodes interviewing Sir Stephen Bubb, Matthew Taylor and Jonathan Lewis. Future episodes in the series will feature Simon Tucker from the Young Foundation and Steve Wyler from Locality. The Social Investment Business will also shortly be announcing a competition for social enterprises to win the opportunity to be interviewed about their work.

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1.    Subscribe to the ‘An interview with…’ podcast series on iTunes here:  http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/thesocialinvest/id449826455

2.    To date The Social Investment Business has interviewed: Cliff Prior, Lord Victor Adebowale, Nick Temple, Kate Bull, Rodney Schwartz, Sam Conniff, Sophi Tranchell, Jonathan Lewis, Matthew Taylor and Sir Stephen Bubb.

3.    For further information or interviews, please contact The Social Investment Business press office:

Liz Banks - 0207 842 7726/ 07809 504072  liz.banks@socialinvestmentbusiness.org

Nicola Jones - 0207 842 7755 nicola.jones@socialinvestmentbusiness.org

4.    The Social Investment Business, the largest social investor in the UK, exists to help social enterprises, charities and community organisations do more of what they do best – supporting people and communities most in need. We help organisations prosper by providing innovative financial solutions, business support and long term strategic thinking.

www.thesocialinvestmentbusiness.org @TheSocialInvest

5.       The Social Investment Business manages the Futurebuilders Fund on behalf of The Office for Civil Society, the Social Enterprise Investment Fund for the Department of Health, the Communitybuilders Fund which was endowed to parent charity the Adventure Capital Fund by the Department for Communities and Local Government.  We have over 1,100 active investments which range in size and scope from, for example,  £3,600 to help a small organisation bid successfully for a public sector contract, to £6.7million to help a large national charity establish and develop innovative new services for children and young people.