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Meet the people of Igniting Change, a tiny Melbourne charity inspiring and catalysing positive social change. Join Celia Hirsh as she gets to know some of the faces behind the scenes and tho...
For women involved in street based sex work in St Kilda, and young women and girls affected by sexual exploitation, St Kilda Gatehouse is a...
We meet Ellen Jacobsen - the Social Impact Manager at HoMie, a not-for-profit streetwear label that seeks to support young people affected b...
Human rights lawyer George Newhouse could easily have continued working in corporate law in New York and London. Instead he returned home an...
A proud Wiradjuri Woman, born and raised on Gadigal land, Carly Stanley has dedicated her life to helping her people. Carly is the Founder a...
Melanie Sheppard is an Australian writer, a story teller and a passionate activist and advocate for women's rights and social justice. Whils...
As the founder of Three For All, Ian Seal is making a difference. He and his team work passionately with LGBTQIA+ people seeking asylum to m...
We start Season Four of the Igniting Change Podcast with the inspirational Carla Raynes. For the last 17 years Carla has worked tirelessly o...
Felix Riebl has lost none of the youthful energy that has made his band Cat Empire a worldwide success, which is lucky, as his side project,...
Anne Mitchell is one of Melbourne’s really quiet achievers - but the work she does as Program Manager of the Steps outreach service saves li...
Keenan Mundine is well qualified to talk to the young men he meets at the jail gates - he’s been in and out of detention since he was a boy....
Artist Amanda Newman first came to our attention as the name at the bottom of a mural of Dujuan, the remarkable central figure of “In My Blo...
Linda Fox turned her back on the law in favour of the not for profit world and she hasn’t looked back. As an Igniting Change board member an...
How does Margaret Thorpe manage to keep the Sacred Heart Community, where formerly homeless, mentally unwell people live, a “happy quiet pla...
William Tilmouth is a proud Arrernte man who is a member of the stolen generations. As chair of Children’s Ground he is determined to help b...
When the students of Hester Hornbrook Academy in Prahran have a problem, they turn to Wellbeing Team Leader, Stella. Run by the Melbourne Ci...
In her day job as Community Service Co-ordinator at Melbourne’s Lauriston Girls School, Sarah Jessup was introduced to Jane Tewson and went...
Renowned author and journalist Martin Flanagan spent a year with Igniting Change founder and director Jane Tewson “meeting the people and fe...
We're delighted to announce Series 3 of the Igniting Change Podcast is coming soon! Featuring conversations that examine how Covid-19, the B...
If Bernie Shakeshaft was the main character in a book, people would complain he was too good to be true. This humble and quietly spoken supe...
Chloe Dickson knows first hand the power of the St Kilda Police and Citizen’s Youth Club, a not-for-profit organisation mentoring young peop...
Tal Fitzpatrick is rather good at getting her message across in a quiet and beautiful way. Humming and singing as she sews messages of prote...
Paul Moulds was the guy everyone at high school would come to if they had a problem. Nothing much has changed, except that now he has made l...
AFFY AKUEY - director of TWICH - a not for profit sewing group, bringing together women from non-English speaking backgrounds. Affy is fierc...
Why would high-flying Virgin executive Mark Gilmour join the board of a tiny not for profit in Melbourne, Australia? He tells Celia Hirsh in...
Anyone would count themselves lucky to have Charlotte Jones in their corner. She is indefatigable and passionate - exactly what you want and...
Tyler Mitchell discovered the hard way that only hard work brings rewards. Jailed for drug dealing he has emerged as a role model and sports...
Mary Muirhead takes tireless to the next level when it comes to her Learning for Life Autism Centre. She’ll be clicking her tongue now and s...
Nobody wants to live next door to a prison. Except Norm Reed. As the Pastor of Hobart’s Risdon prison, Norm is dedicated to ensuring inmates...
We’re pleased to announce that Series 2 of the Igniting Change Podcast is ready to launch! From Monday October 14 we’ll introduce you to mor...
Thank you to everyone for listening and for the positive response to Series 1 of the Igniting Change Podcast. We are excited to announce a s...
Martin Flanagan is our final guest for this first series of our podcast. Journalist, writer and proud Tasmanian, Martin has been embedded wi...
Steph Exton is a woman of many talents, and one of the greatest of these is her ability to identify an organisation that’s just the right fi...
Our guest in episode 7 is Jane Vadiveloo, who runs Children's Ground - a charity working in the Northern Territory with First Nations famili...
Roger Antochi seemed genetically predisposed to a life of crime. And for a while he followed that script. But today he’s inspiring others in...
Igniting Change second-in-charge Jayde features in Episode 5. She is a remarkable young woman who has turned her life around, and in turn ha...
Episode 4 features Anne Hooker, the youth development officer at Melbourne’s Port Phillip Prison’s Penhyn Unit. A fierce advocate for the yo...
For 20 years Jane Rowe has quietly and determinedly strived to give a childhood to children who have been orphaned or abandoned through illi...
Episode two features Mariam Issa, a Somalian refugee whose struggle to gain a foothold in this land was aided by Igniting Change, who suppor...
Our first episode features the founder of Igniting Change, Jane Tewson, who's worked in the charity sector both in Australia and overseas fo...