This episode is of a recorded session I ran with Nickala Torkington, as part of Flourish Together's week long series of sessions for International Women's Day this year (2021).

Nickala invited to me talk about this topic "putting the profit back in to non-profit" after a post I shared on Facebook a few months back and subsequent conversations we had from it.

If you've been listening to my podcast for a while you will know how important I believe it is we re-evaluate and define what non-profit really means as social enterprises. And in this episode, I explain it all, as well as discuss lots of other issues and questions that have arisen as a result of covid-19 over the past 12 months, for many social enterprises.

This is a different type of episode and brings insights not only from myself and Nickala but also some of the social entrepreneurs who attended the event and contributed their stories and experiences too.

About Nickala & Flourish
Nickala Torkington is co-Founder & Director of Flourish Together CIC. She has worked in the social enterprise support sector for over 15 years. She has directly coached and supported over 1000 social entrepreneurs to develop social projects, enterprises, and organisations. She has worked regionally and nationally including roles at UnLtd – The Foundation for Social Entrepreneurs, Blackburne House and alongside HEFCE with some of the most pioneering universities in the UK and internationally, to enable them to innovate, resource and build ecosystems of support to further social innovation and enterprise activities. A social business consultant for 5 years she is trained in Social Value Measurement. She is recognised in the WISE100 list as one of the leading women in social enterprise in the UK.

Flourish Together CIC is a thriving peer network and social venture development consultancy that provides support, investment, learning opportunities, and specialist research and consultancy, to enable women change-makers to flourish. We provide an ecosystem of support through peer learning, mentoring, coaching and seed investment. To date over 600 changemakers have benefited from our support.

We are a ‘Pay it forward’ consultancy which invests its surplus resources in growing the impact and supporting the economic empowerment of women changemakers locally and globally.

If you're a social enterprise in the North West of England you should definitely join the Flourish Network and find out about their latest events, training and support.