Working For Progress
Welcome to Working For Progress with social entrepreneur Dani Trudeau. This podcast is all about real conversations with real people who are shaping their working lives in meaningful ways. From the heart of Tribe Porty and beyond, Dani connects with guests whose stories reflect the grit, passion, and purpose behind the work they do.
Through candid and thoughtful interviews, you’ll hear about career journeys that inspire, challenge, and reveal the quiet truths of our shared human experience. Each conversation starts with simple pleasures, winds through tough jobs and daring decisions, and lands in those unforgettable moments of flow and awe.
We’re all working for progress—within ourselves, for each other, and for a better world.
Working For Progress
Working For Progress with Chris Hellawell
Welcome to Season 2! Today we welcome Chris Hellawell.
Chris and I met at the School for Social Entrepreneurs Scotland programme, way back in 2014 when we were both setting up our enterprises. Now Chris has a tool library empire and has a workshop at Tribe Porty.
Chris Hellawell is the Director of the Edinburgh Tool Library, an organisation that aims to create resilient communities by harnessing the wealth of resources that already exists within those communities. This includes tools, equipment, space, volunteers, skills and knowledge. They share tools and equipment via tool lending libraries, and teach skills to their members and outreach groups of people who have historically been excluded from workshop and creative spaces. Since their beginnings in 2015, ETL have saved their members over £2million and supported over 100 community groups and charities through their outreach programmes.
Working For Progress is hosted by Dani Trudeau and produced by Alice Hudson.
Dani founded Tribe Porty a community coworking space which believes that a nurturing environment which sparks creativity and collaboration is good for business, individuals and communities.
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