No Child Should Carry their Life in a Bin Bag - Dave Linton, Madlug

Make An Impact Podcast

English - October 07, 2019 15:00 - 20 minutes - 14.1 MB
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We've all heard stories which have horrified us.

But when Dave Linton was told how most children in care transport all their possessions - their lives - in black bin bags, he wasn't only shocked and appalled. He resolved to do something about it.

Dave, a former youth worker, launched social enterprise Madlug CIC to give dignity to children in care.

Madlug stands for Make a Difference Luggage and makes "incredible bags." For every Madlug bag bought by a member of the public a giving bag, centred around the needs of children in care, is donated.

In this inspirational episode, Dave covers:

His lightbulb moment and why he launched MadlugStarting the business with just £500 and where he focused his energy firstThe most difficult challenge he faced to get the business up and runningHow Madlug grewIts impact so far, not only from giving over 10,000 bags to children, but further impact tooFuture plansAdvice for other social entrepreneurs

Hi, I’m Heidi Fisher, the host of the Make an Impact Podcast. I'm an impact measurement expert, passionate about helping you make a bigger impact in the world by maximising the impact your services have.

I can help you to measure, manage and communicate the impact you have better to funders, investors, commissioners and other stakeholders, and to systemise your data collection and analysis so that it frees up time and doesn’t become an additional burden.

I love helping you to measure social and economic impacts, including Social Return on Investment or value for money assessments, as part of understanding the change you make to peoples’ lives.

You can get in touch via LinkedIn or the website makeanimpactcic.co.uk if you’d like to find out more about working with me.