People Inspired By Purpose - Purposely Podcast

Hannah Underwood is a self-confessed charity and data geek with an unquenchable desire to improve as many young lives as possible. In her early career Hannah learned how to measure performance and use data to improve organisations. At the age of 25, Hannah became CEO of The Key, a charity inspiring belief in young people. Working with venture philanthropists, Impetus PEF, they used data & metrics to build a vibrant, robust and well respected organisation. Outside of running The Key, Hannah’s been a Director of Datakind UK since 2013 and became part of the ‘Data For Good’ movement. When she’s not trying to change the world, you’ll find Hannah chasing a mucky toddler or renovating their old farmhouse in Northumberland.

Nyasha Gwatidzo was born in Zimbabwe and gained a degree in Chemistry from London University. She then went on to retrain at Reading University and gained an MA, to work with adults and children with emotional issues. She is a qualified psychotherapist, social worker, coach and mentor. http://walkwithmenetwork.com/ She is a serial social entrepreneur, working with disadvantaged people in the UK and Africa. She founded a multimillion pound social enterprise Banya, which finds foster families for children in the care of local authorities. www.banya.co.uk She founded a charity in the UK, Vana Trust which raises funds for children affected by HIV and AIDS in Zimbabwe, supporting their education. The Trust also supports adults and young people here in the UK who have learning and emotional difficulties, through her therapeutic organic farm in Buckinghamshire. www.vanatrust.org.uk Nyasha wrote a book in 2015 after walking the length of the River Thames (206 miles) “Walk With Me through 16 Inspirational Business and Life Tips”. Her vision for the future is to forge global connections with women in the developing world who inspire her everyday through the social investment fund she is setting up, World Impact Capital. She would like them to reach economic independence through enterprise and she currently mentors women starting up in business. WIC will be a £100 million pounds social impact investment fund for African women entrepreneurs/leaders. This fund will fund their enterprises to grow their businesses as well as hands on business support. www.worldimpactcapital.com

Tune in to hear Dr Sarah Fane's incredible story... how this British woman continuously risked her life to play a key role in transforming the lives of thousands of Afghan people. Sarah is  currently Director in charge of the Marylebone Cricket Club Foundation, the charitable arm of the MCC, and their aim is to utilise the power of sport and specifically cricket to enhance lives.  Awarded an OBE by the British Government in 2013 for her charities services to the people of Afghanistan Sarah's founder story is incredible, from a war time doctor, to mother, to charity founder to twenty plus years of regularly travelling between the UK and Afghanistan and being at risk of kidnap.  Sarah's story starts with her overcoming doubts about her ability to study medicine and become a doctor... Inspired by a gap year working in rural India, Dr Sarah Fane decided to switch from her degree course in French and Latin to study medicine at Bristol University. Her Elective, in 1987, was spent in the Northwest Frontier Province of Pakistan, working with an obstetrician in an area with one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world. Once qualified, she returned to Pakistan, and worked from a Mujahideen camp on the border with Afghanistan, during the height of the Soviet Afghan war, running clinics for female refugees. In 2001 she was invited to Afghanistan, which was in the grip of the Taliban regime, to work in a mother and child clinic. The visit and the people she met inspired her to set up Afghan Connection. Closing earlier this year the charity supported education and sport in Afghanistan and has over the last 20 years built 46 schools for over 75,000 children. It also ran cricket projects backed by the Marylebone Cricket Club,M.C.C. which benefitted over 100,000 children in 22 provinces. Sarah was also made an Honorary Life Member of the M.C.C. in 2012

Mark Johnson is a rehabilitated offender and former drug user, bestselling author of Wasted and the founder of the charity User Voice. User Voice was built on using the strengths of people and ignoring what others see as deficiencies. User Voice focuses on the strengths of lived experience not on the perceived weaknesses of lack of education, qualifications and professional track record. The lived experience of someone who has experienced drug addiction, or time spent in prison, as expertise.