Original Broadcast: The Bigger Picture
Food banks are providing a vital role to help people this winter, and the Trussell Trust supports more than 1,200 throughout the United Kingdom. In this special episode of The Bigger Picture, their Chief Executive Emma Revie briefs supporters about their progress, and their plans for the future. If you would like to support the extraordinary work undertaken by this charity, please visit https://trusselltrust.org
Guests: Emma Revie
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On 31 August '21 The Share Foundation hosted a virtual event for young people in Wales, to help them find money that the government put away in a Child Trust Fund for when they reached 18. All young people born in the UK from 1st September 2002 should have one of these accounts, but huge numbers don't know anything about them! With Welsh-speaking help from Jac, this audio podcast of the virtual event tells you all about your good fortune, and invites you to register at https://findCTF.sharefound.org so that Sharefound can help link you with your money. Please share! And if you want to join a virtual event yourself, please visit https://www.sharefound.org/ctf-virtual-events and register for your choice of date: they're taking place each fortnight.
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Original Broadcast: The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors
Lord John Lee has become a champion for people investing in the stock market over recent years: he's written three books on investing, he's a patron of ShareSoc, the society for individual shareholders in the United Kingdom, and he's now challenging Government, broadcasters and regulators to encourage a much higher profile for investing in shares on TV and radio. Gavin Oldham meets with John to discuss the background to his initiative and his proposals for change; and they go on to consider how customer share ownership can be expanded, how to encourage more active participation in shareholder voting, and how to improve financial education
Guests: Lord Lee
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Original Broadcast: The Bigger Picture
Imagine a world in which everyone has a stake in the great tech firms that serve them each day, and where dividends are gradually replacing wages to provide regular income for everyone, as work becomes scarcer as a result of automation? Imagine a world where every young person not only has a small inheritance with which to start their adult life, but also the opportunity to build its value by learning life skills? Simon Rose is taking a well-earned break this week, so we’re taking the opportunity to bring you a talk given Gavin Oldham in August to the leading City of London think-tank Z/Yen.
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The full Budget speech, as delivered by Chancellor Rishi Sunak at just after 12:30 pm - 51 minutes
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President John F. Kennedy's inauguration speech, 20 January 1961
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This short reading of Night Prayer, without psalms, is taken from 'Prayers for use during the coronavirus outbreak' published by the Church of England.
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Love at the Cutting Edge is a reflection on the nature of evil and suffering, whether of human origin or otherwise, and on how Christian teaching resonates with morality and conscience - produced by Gavin Oldham in March 2021. The background music is Gorecki's Symphony No. 3, first movement as performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in 1995.
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Gavin Oldham, Chair of Trustees at The Share Foundation, meets Dave Rose of Premier Radio to explain how their new incentivised learning programme called the 'Stepladder of Achievement' is offering new opportunities for young people in care - and how listeners can help to make it available across the United Kingdom.
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How you can help young people in care prepare for adult life by supporting The Share Foundation’s ‘Stepladder of Achievement’ programme.
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