The Project Cambridge Show

If you didn't get to attend the Form the Future CIC annual conference at the end of January (or even if you 𝘥𝘪𝘥), here is your chance to see the day in film. 

𝗘𝗽𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝟭𝟮 - 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗺 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗔𝗻𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 - 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗕𝗲𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗲𝗻𝘀 is a unique video, captured by work experience students from Cambridge Regional College and Long Road Sixth Form College; 18-year-old Drew Richardson-Tofield and 17-year-old Lauren Smith. 

Along with Jen Richardson, they film the speakers in action, as well as shoot exclusive interviews with Agnieszka Iwasiewicz-Wabnig FRSA, Pippa Heylings, Philip Colligan CBE, Andrea Wood MBE, Rachel Coquard, Phoebe Pratley, Gwen Bergius, Anne Bailey, Steve Thompson, Rupert Davey, Charlotte Hallewell, Corrin Hoyes, Laura Kerry, Sonja Povey, Diane Dowling, Mike Rigby, Ayeisha Kone-Massouma, Phoebe Veronica Moore, Iury Kesley Marques de Oliveira Martins, Rachel Boyd-Moss, Joseph McMenamin 

"𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘤𝘶𝘴, 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘴𝘯'𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘦 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘱𝘰𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨!" 

 Pippa Heylings has served as MP for South Cambridgeshire since 2024. A member of the Liberal Democrats, she previously represented Histon and Impington on the South Cambridgeshire District Council from 2018 to 2024. She's also the  Energy Security and Net Zero Spokesperson. 

Community focused, Pippa also volunteered herself for the upcoming Project Cambridge Charity Skydive in aid of Arthur Rank Hospice.

We're recording with Pippa in early January and we're super-excited to chat to her.

Tim Minshall from the Institute for Manufacturing (IfM) at the University of Cambridge makes Manufacturing fun and fascinating. He's an award-winning lecturer, who is doing some wonderful work at raising awareness of manufacturing among schoolchildren and their teachers.

He also researches, writes and gives talks about manufacturing, innovation and skills, nationally and internationally.

He sits down with Jen to rewind on his life and career so far and gives his take on how Cambridge can optimise the opportunity to embrace manufacturing. We also chat through skills and education and the importance of getting more young people into this wonderful sector.

 Following the devastating news that Arthur Rank Hospice Charity is set to lose £829,000 of NHS funding, we're bringing CEO Sharon Allen OBE FCGI onto the podcast to talk through what this means for Cambridgeshire and how people can support. 

You can watch the full episode on our YouTube channel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y2L8fJpDsk

We're joined by ST4G's founder, Sue Gowling and Partnership Manager, Denise Coates to unpack Digital Inclusion and what this fantastic company is doing to support so many Cambridge based charities and individuals.

You can watch the full episode on our YouTube channel https://youtu.be/OcGlzKxuU2A?si=4qNFgjLlXFeB34vG

You need to know this woman's name.

Ann Fisher famously founded the hugely successful Cambridge Tech Week. But not long before the first event took place, Ann was rushed to hospital and it was discovered that she had a huge brain tumour which had been slowly killing her. It almost did.

She bravely cheated the odds and is healthy and well, today.

We rewind through her astonishing, entrepreneurial career; from working in Finance, 'falling into' Recruitment and going on to Co-found an amazingly successful recruitment business. We also walk through how she started championing 'women in tech' when nobody else was; as Founder of Women4Technology.

In her role today as NED at St John's Innovation Centre and member of the campaign board at Cambridge Cancer Research Hospital, we find out how Ann is still a massively influential person in Cambridge.

This is a podcast not to be missed and we very much hope you will join us.