Ep1. Refugee Week Special - Local Welcome with Co-Founder Ben Pollard

Hello and welcome to Episode 1 of The USS Social Enterprise with Michael J. Curtis. In this episode I talk to Ben Pollard - Co-founder of "Local Welcome", an organisation that helps refugees connect with people in their local community via the medium of food. Along the way we also talk about chip fat recycling, crop farming in Africa, dead old ladies, going to the opera, and why your mum would never use an uber or airbnb. All voice recording, editing and production by Michael J. Curtis. Music by Kevin MacLeod, Broke for Free and Joel Thomas Hunger under Creative Commons License. Cover image by Andrei Krauchuk via 123rf.com. Below are links to (most of) the books that Ben mentioned in the podcast. Enjoy! Books Mentioned by Ben (all findable on Amazon): Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered by EF Schumacher https://www.amazon.co.uk/Small-Beautiful-Economics-People-Mattered/dp/0099225611/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1522950061&sr=1-1&keywords=small+is+beautiful What is the What by Dave Eggers https://www.amazon.co.uk/What-Dave-Eggers/dp/0141015748/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1522950804&sr=1-1&keywords=what+is+the+what Rules for Radicals by Saul D. Alinsky https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rules-Radicals-Vintage-Saul-Alinsky/dp/0679721134/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1522951630&sr=1-1&keywords=rules+for+radicals The Prince by by Nicolo Machiavelli and W. K. Marriott https://www.amazon.co.uk/Prince-Nicolo-Machiavelli/dp/1981842918/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1522951725&sr=1-1&keywords=the+prince+machiavelli In Defence of Politics by Bernard Crick https://www.amazon.co.uk/Defence-Politics-Pelican-books/dp/0140206558/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1522951836&sr=1-5&keywords=bernard+crick Also, the world record breaking cousin: The Cyr Wheel Troop - https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/watch-circus-performers-put-stunning-10474398