episodes

We are joined by Wayne Murray, the founder of Humanity Squared, aspiring human and father focused on innovation, transformation and human-centred strategy to drive positive change. We talk lived experience, making it up as you go, quitting jobs in lockdown and the longest pier on the world.

Kenneth returns from a Table Tennis training camp for haloween as we dig up the Foreman Family history. Then three guests arrive who have a trick or two and treat us with a talk about mentoring and how it can be used to build confidence.

In this episode we talk to Eugenie Harvey, the Chief Executive of The Funding Network, a London-based charity that connects small non-profits and donors. We start with Eugenie's ill-fated comedy career before a parkrun love in and a discussion on Australian bushfires, the usual intro.

We all look on enviously as we hear about the Foreman household Air Conditioning dynasty before we’re joined by two guests representing the Raheem Sterling Foundation - a charity that envisions a world where young people will always have the support they need.

In the last five years, our guest has lived in mainland Greece, Serbia, and Bosnia and the refugee hotspot of the Greek Island Samos supporting people however she can. Though, she may need to head to Laos and support a generation of children whom Kenneth taught the alphabet.

Our guest this week co-founded The Turner Kirk Trust in 2007 and since then has granted over £7million to charitable causes across the UK and the developing world. His achievements include a PhD in General Relativity, chairing numerous businesses and launching the UK’s first algo-hedge fund. The perfect match for your host’s combined four GCSEs, 400m swimming certificate and a culinary skills badge from Beavers.

Our dream mentor is the intro subject this week as we reveal more about ourselves than those chosen. Then it’s into a chat with Leila Thomas on the organisation she founded and leads to provide young people with the aspirations, opportunity and skills to achieve their career goals.

We start this episode with unfulfilled dreams and unpublished logos. Kenneth picks up a role with the Newcastle Tourist Board whereas James is living out his Olympic dreams. Then it's over to Work for Good CEO, and closet McFly fan, Veronica Bamford-Deane to sell us sales fundraising.

Jimbo reveals how to blow your cover as a tourist whilst Kenneth is living his best life in our intro to digital-supremo, vinyl-fanatic and aspiring pub landlord, James Gadsby Peet. We talk about monetising cat gifs, the dawn of data analytics and timing your Phil Collins drum solo to perfection.

Anne Aslett tells us how she started as a volunteer with a bold idea for a new fundraising venture before spending twenty years with and becoming CEO of the Elton John AIDS Foundation. An organisation which has saved the lives of over five million of the most marginalised people in the world.

He might be the Deputy General Secretary and Director of Communications and Research at Prospect, he may have been President of the NUS, he might be a trustee of Stonewall and a non-executive director at one of the UK’s largest community housing associations, you might even find him on Newsnight and ‘Reasons to be Cheerful’, but it’s his prestigious position as Head of PR for the British Kebab Awards which is what Kenneth and James really want to hear about.

This week starts with tales of crashed cars and car-crash fashion choices before we are joined by a pair who lived life in the fast lane. Our guests are a husband and wife team who have successfully transitioned their once corporate careers to now work with people in their mid-life to support their health and wellbeing following their own passion for this area.

We are joined by Helen Moulinos for this episode - a knowledgeable, passionate human rights expert and stir-fry aficionado. After growing up in the States she moved to the UK and now leads POhWER, the UK’s largest advocacy charity which upholds and protects the human rights of marginalised, vulnerable and excluded groups.

We’re chatting to Gillian about her impressive LinkedIn profile this week. From Livity, The Ministry of Sound and work with Adidas and Red Bull, to Director of Engagement at House of St. Barnabus, Commissioner for Diversity with the Mayor of London and a consultant for Culture 24, via music festivals from Manchester to Malawi.

Ben Greensmith, or Lord Chocolonely III as he’s known at work, is responsible for the sixth largest chocolate bar brand in the UK - Tony’s Chocolonely - and their mission to make chocolate free of child-labour and slavery (spoiler alert - not all confectionary brands adopt this approach).

Dressed to impress, Jake Mills joins us this week. As an award-winning stand-up comedian, mental health campaigner and charity CEO, Jake brings his story and the best nickname we’ve had for a while to this episode.

We are joined this week by the dynamic duo behind fundraising everywhere and fundraising everywhere +. With an ambition to change the world they connect and educate fundraisers, empowering them to do just that.

It’s been a while but we return with a conversation with Ashby Jenkins of Ashby Jenkins Recruitment. The fundraiser turned recruitment specialist set up her own company three years ago and talks us through the tips and tricks she has picked up for your next move, and how she’s negotiated the past two years as a business owner.

This episode features the CEO of the Football Foundation, Robert Sullivan. The former consultant, special adviser and Strategy Director at the FA began his new role in early 2020, deciding how to best invest in the grassroots game with funding from the government, the Football Association and the Premier League.

Our guest this week is an award-winning mental health campaigner, film producer, public speaker, writer and vlogger. Jonny Benjamin was the star of an iconic mental health campaign, #FindMike - to reconnect with the man who had talked him out of jumping from a bridge in London six years earlier.

Episode 77 features Fleurie, the campaigner, Business Growth Director, BIMA100 winner, Bournemouth Uni 30 under 30, XTinction Rebellion member but not, it seems, the owner of a watch.

From a childhood on the road to encouraging more women into politics, years spent in the Dalai Lama’s Tibetan community and working at the Jo Cox Foundation. Catherine Anderson is the Executive Director of the London Marathon Charitable Trust and joins us with her story.

We’ve rolled out the red carpet for Tom Lemons this week, the head of the Talent & Influencer team at the NSPCC, responsible for winning and managing award winning high profile partnerships for the charity.

She is the Conductor-In-Residence with the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, the inaugural Female-Conductor-In-Residence at the Welsh National Opera and principal conductor of the St. Woolos Sinfonia. She was the first woman to win the Guido Cantelli, won the Sir Georg Solti International and is our latest guest on the Do More Good podcast.

We’re talking to Nick Burne, the founder and CEO of Givepanel, not to mention the former manager of The Dead Lovers and passionate burger fan. We kick things off by delving into our first posts on new media, getting into debt and being interviewed by your future wife.

A strong start to our sixth season with CEO of the Liverpool FC Foundation, Matt Parish. He keeps possession as he entertains the boys with his tale from South London PE Teacher to Community Champion for one of the best-known brands in the world.

The boys impress this week’s guest with tales of their sporting prowess before Junior talks about how his career as a professional footballer with Tottenham and England sparked a passion to help transform the lives of young children faced with adversity growing up as he did.

We’re occasionally asked about the kit we use to record the show so we thought it might be interesting to detail the Do More Good kitbag.

Charmaine tells us all about going back to your old organisation, returning your leaving present and getting down to the business of steering an organisation through the biggest global crisis in modern times.

We spent International Women’s day chatting with Jane Binnion - founder of The Growing Club, published author and saviour to a particularly badly behaved goldfish.

Expelled twice from school, our guest this week set up his first company at university and has processed over £100m for charities since. We’re talking about the importance of impact and 72 hour database marathons.

We chat to Jenni Anderson, the former Director at Invictus Games, Duke of Edinburgh’s Award and Haven House and future consultant to the sector about taking the plunge during a pandemic.

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It’s part two of our Christmas Special. You can tell because Kenneth has his Christmas Jumper on.

We speak to Peter Cross - the man behind the John Lewis Christmas advert and the pitch-perfect ‘Give a Little Love’ campaign.

From nights spent sleeping on the Embankment to an afternoon at Buckingham Palace, we’re delighted to share Jay Flynn’s story.

We're talking to Martin, the man with over ten million downloads to his name through his Marathon Talk show, about how to monetise good ideas when you're not motivated by piles of cash.

Our chat with Ellie features three famous figures - Captain Tom, Joe Wicks and £100m.

We hear about how Colin was influenced by Diana Ross to ditch the Hawaiian shorts, met Nancy Sinatra in the green room and got confused counting rhinos.

We're delighted to launch a new season with Alzheimer's Society CEO and the Labrador puppy of the sector, Kate Lee.

In a change to their standard set up this week's episode is brought to you on a lunchtime from the White Hart in Southwark. Sandy joins the boys to share her insight after fifteen years working with charities during her time with Blackbaud,

Recorded on the Friday before the Bank Holiday, the boys discuss the arrival of GDPR - but it isn't all fun - they also work through James' terrible week, a Blue Peter awakening and the demand for DMG merch.

As the Senior Digital Marketing Manager at Marie Curie, Dina brings actual experience and knowledge to the show, not to mention the revelation that she was the pioneer of all things social in the sector.

The podcast comes live from the London Marathon expo. Kenneth and James catch-up with Teenage Cancer Trust, Marie Curie, Alzheimer's Society and Bloodwise and hear about what their plans are for marathon day.

After a few busy weeks of events the boys decide to explore what makes a good supporter journey and share some of their experience. Also, Kenneth enjoys wearing a shell-suit far too much, James discusses creating short videos with an interesting selection of words and they look ahead to the Easter break.

This week James and Kenneth are eventually joined by Keith Williams, General Manager of Just Giving. Keith shares his view on the role of JG, the future of fundraising, dealing with stress and trends in the mass participation event market.

James talks about stats from the Twitter, we cover the recent Oxfam case and discuss what makes a good leader. James complains about sore toes, and in no way linked to that Kenneth betrays a distain for soft southeners and his love of Gandhi.

James and Kenneth huddle together for warmth and cringe at the term personal brand. The boys go into depth on what makes a great bag drop at an event and the less said about spilling a pint over the table the better.

Kenneth, recovering from illness, and James, looking like an extra from Grease, head to the bar at the posh Granary Brasserie behind Kings Cross. Once there they open up on strengths and weaknesses and how it takes all types to build great teams.

The chaps are fresh from a RealBuzz presentation but feeling the effects of January and returning to work. The focus is on the new year, new offices and nude MPs, plus working practices, technology and how allowing flexibility leads to productivity.

James turns up late and Kenneth admits he may have slightly exaggerated our audience to a prospective listener. The official subject for tonight's episode is innovation and Kenneth goes big on the stats.

Episode 01: Kenneth has done his hair for the very first episode of the do more good podcast.