Good Podcasts

With new features and almost 20,000 UK venues on the app, Sociability wants to give people with accessibility considerations the information they need to have a good time, while making money for hospitality venues.This episode is part of a series featuring the extraordinary winners of the Cambridge Social Innovation Prize 2025, presented by the Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation and Trinity Hall Cambridge. The 2025 winners were interviewed for the Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation's Social Ideas podcast, which Pioneers Post is reproducing here as part of its media partnership to support the 2026 edition of the prize. Find out more, or apply for the Cambridge Social Innovation Prize 2026, here (deadline 17 April): https://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/centres/social-innovation/cambridge-social-innovation-prize/

Charlie Fraser, co-founder of The Entrepreneurial Refugee Network, explains how the social enterprise helps refugees in the UK rebuild their lives through entrepreneurship, the organisation's impact and how it aims to become majority refugee-led.This episode is part of a series featuring the extraordinary winners of the Cambridge Social Innovation Prize 2025, presented by the Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation and Trinity Hall Cambridge. The 2025 winners were interviewed for the Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation's Social Ideas podcast, which Pioneers Post is reproducing here as part of its media partnership to support the 2026 edition of the prize. Find out more, or apply for the Cambridge Social Innovation Prize 2026, here (deadline 17 April): https://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/centres/social-innovation/cambridge-social-innovation-prize/

‘I believe in revolution. I believe in devolution,’ says Coffee Afrik co-founder Abdirahim Hassan. He tells us how he took an east London cafe from a startup to a 32-project enterprise taking a groundbreaking approach to tackling deeply embedded trauma. This episode is part of a series featuring the extraordinary winners of the Cambridge Social Innovation Prize 2025, presented by the Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation and Trinity Hall Cambridge. The 2025 winners were interviewed for the Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation's Social Ideas podcast, which Pioneers Post is reproducing here as part of its media partnership to support the 2026 edition of the prize. Find out more, or apply for the Cambridge Social Innovation Prize 2026, here (deadline 17 April): https://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/centres/social-innovation/cambridge-social-innovation-prize/

The world of business for good is complex and fast moving, and it can be challenging to keep up with the new ideas, technologies and innovations driving positive change. So at Pioneers Post, we’ve decided to call in the experts to help us – and you – to make sense of it all: welcome to the Good Experts Podcast.In episode two, Taiwan’s cyber minister Audrey Tang and ethical technologist James Gauci discuss how open-source technology can counter ‘digital feudalism’ and how AI can be developed to truly serve communities.At Social Enterprise World Forum 2025, which took place in Taipei, Taiwan, Gauci and Tang explored these questions, and more, before Tang’s keynote speech which closed the event. From “techno-communitarianism” to “polarisation per minute” to “ancestral intelligence”, Gauci and Tang uncover ways AI can be developed and used while maintaining a commitment to serving people and planet. This episode was produced in partnership with Cadent, with support from Social Enterprise World Forum.

Clothing poverty is an overlooked social problem, says social enterprise Give Your Best founder Sol Escobar, despite the UK’s mountains of fashion waste.This episode is part of a series featuring the extraordinary winners of the Cambridge Social Innovation Prize 2025, presented by the Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation and Trinity Hall Cambridge. The 2025 winners were interviewed for the Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation's Social Ideas podcast, which Pioneers Post is reproducing here as part of its media partnership to support the 2026 edition of the prize. Find out more, or apply for the Cambridge Social Innovation Prize 2026, here (deadline 17 April): https://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/centres/social-innovation/cambridge-social-innovation-prize/

Good Leaders: As Social Investment Scotland marks 25 years, CEO Alastair Davis talks to Tim West about his dedication to community finance, Scotland’s social investment journey, and how sabbaticals, Friday night cooking and a unique leadership style help him lead with ambition – without burning out.