Birmingham Panthers: Inspiring the next generation

Creating safer environments: the Smartphone Free Childhood movement

In this episode of the Purpose Pod, we sit down with the co founder of Generation Focus and a regional leader for Smartphone Free Childhood, Charlotte Ashton. She's one of the many voices at the centre of one of the fastest moving shifts in UK education: the push to remove smartphones from schools. This is something which is backed by our very own people who, in a recent internal survey, voted overwhelmingly in favour of a full social media ban or a ban with limits for U16s.

Birmingham Panthers: Inspiring the next generation

In this episode of the Purpose Pod, we sat down with Caitlin O'Sullivan from Birmingham Panthers. Gateley is a proud sponsor of Birmingham Panthers, having renewed our partnership to support for a second season. Caitlin talks to us about her journey into netball, how the Gateley Gateway to Netball community programme will inspire a new generation of future players, and gives us her predictions ahead of an exciting season of netball.

Reimagining homelessness: a blueprint for dignity, community and change

In this episode of the Purpose Pod, our host sits down with Sid Williams, the co-founder and director of the Embassy charity. Sid tells us all about the Embassy Village, an initiative to help end homelessness in Manchester city centre.

Making ballet accessible, inclusive and transformative

Paul Reeve talks about his role at the Birmingham Royal Ballet, why making the arts accessible to everyone really matters, and how people of all ages can get involved and experience it in their own way.