How Helen Stuart Is Redefining Access To Safe, Fair And Ethical Therapy
Now You’re Talking, led by Managing Director Helen Stuart, is the trading arm of the charity Talk Listen Change. The platform connects people and businesses with verified, ethical therapists while funding free counselling through its parent charity. Balancing accessibility with safety, it pays therapists fairly and puts care before scale. By blending business with social impact, Now You’re Talking is building a sustainable model for mental health support that uplifts clients, practitioners, and communities alike.
Case Study – Budgie Galore Jewellery School
By refreshing the website and integrating a self-owned booking system, Studio Budgie Galore transformed how it runs. Instead of losing time and money to clunky admin, Julie-Ann now has the freedom to focus on creativity, teaching, and building a thriving jewellery community in Sheffield.
How Danielle Heward Founded Optimo To Support Businesses That Put People And Planet First
Optimo, founded by Danielle Heward, supports purpose-driven organisations with streamlined operations that amplify impact. From solo consultancy to certified B Corp, Optimo balances growth with wellbeing. Using a people-processes-technology-information framework, they deliver practical change while staying values-led. Their ripple effects strengthen ethical agencies, communities, and sustainable businesses, proving impact multiplies through better operations.
The Slow Business Revolution: Why Purpose-Led Brands Are Winning by Doing Less, Better
Its becoming harder to be principled with the business tech you use. But it’s more important than ever.
It’s becoming harder to run a principled business when the very tools we rely on are entangled in harm. From mass surveillance to monopolistic control, today’s tech landscape forces uncomfortable trade-offs. This piece explores the ethical challenges of using mainstream platforms like Microsoft — and offers a starting point for building a more conscious, open-source tech stack that aligns with values of justice, privacy, and sustainability.
The Quiet Shift: How Businesses Are Growing with Care (and how you can too)
What if growth didn’t mean faster, bigger, or more? Across the UK, a new kind of business is taking root — one that values depth over speed, community over competition, and regeneration over extraction. This is Good Growth: a quieter, more courageous way to build. Here’s what it looks like in practice, and how you can join in.
How Harry Waters is helping young people find their voice in the climate crisis
Harry Waters didn’t set out to start a business. He set out to change the conversation on climate change and to include the most important people, who are often so easily forgotten – Children..
Through Renewable English, he’s helping students connect language and climate action in ways that feel empowering, not overwhelming. It’s about more than teaching; it’s about listening, relating, and reminding young people they already have something important to say.
What If We Let Young People Lead the Climate Conversation?
Young people are already leading bold, creative responses to the climate crisis. This article explores why we should trust them with more space and support. What if education became a launchpad for climate action, not just awareness?
James Gill is building the future of eco-friendly email
In a world where digital feels weightless, EcoSend is quietly asking what our clicks are costing the planet. Born on the hottest day in London, it began with a question: what’s the carbon footprint of an email? For James Gill and his team, that curiosity became a calling. Now, EcoSend helps ethical businesses communicate with integrity – powered by renewables, transparent about emissions, and aligned with values that matter. It’s not about growing faster. It’s about growing better. With every email sent, EcoSend invites a shift: from extractive to intentional, from business-as-usual to business that regenerates. One message at a time.
How Helen and Chris turned a personal promise into a movement for biodiversity and belonging
When Helen and Chris Neave first stepped onto a tired Yorkshire field, they didn’t see what was there, they saw what could be. With no master plan, just love for the land and a will to restore, they began. That act of care sparked something bigger. Today, Make it Wild is a growing network of rewilding sites, inviting people and businesses to support nature in deeply personal ways. It’s not just restoration – it’s reconnection. “It’s not our aim to support nature,” Helen says. “It’s our purpose.” What began with trees now echoes as a movement. Quiet. Committed. Alive.