In this webinar, Jamie Palmer, co-founder of Social Supermarket, discusses how the idea for the business originated, and how the platform enables socially minded and purpose-driven businesses to meet customers.

Social Supermarket believes in a world where every business can be a force for good. The company, launched in 2020, connects customers to social enterprises, with a product range including handbags made from decommissioned fire hoses, soap made by people with visual impairments, and award-winning relishes made with wonky fruit and veg.

Jamie Palmer, co-founder of Social Supermarket, on how the idea originated, and how the platform lets socially minded businesses meet customers.

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How the platform enables socially minded and purpose-driven businesses to meet customers.

My name is Veronica Broomes, my business brand is &apos;Your Small Business Coach&apos; and it was founded in 2010 when I qualified as a Small Business Coach. Over the years, I have found a niche in Price Setting Strategies for SMEs and helping business owners avoid common pricing mistakes.
My early career included working on impact assessments (environmental, social) and was followed by many years as a Researcher and Consultant on Sustainability (pillars: social, economic, environmental) and CSR.
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I help owner-founders and directors of SMEs grow profits through:
A) choosing best strategies for pricing and avoiding common mistakes in price setting, and
B) Conducting Sustainability Audits, Action Plans, Policy statements.
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Jay Maniar is an experienced Finance &amp; Operations professional with over 23 years of experience.
As an ex-Director of Operations for KPMG Middle East his interests and passions have always been with small businesses, start-ups and scale-ups.
Having attained further qualifications in Digital Business Transformation from MIT/Columbia Business School he&apos;s dedicated to providing the critical support and service that small businesses need.

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EARLY CAREER
With a career spanning 26 years, Simon has worked in a variety of senior positions in the sports and leisure sector, security sector, business networking and training, licensed retail, supply chain and distribution in financial roles where he headed up departments and led teams. His main roles saw him spend five years in the football industry within Queens Park Rangers Football Club spending 14 months in administration.
BUSINESS CAREER
He has also led his own businesses for 13 years during this period where he spent 5 years developing and managing the Sales and Marketing activities of Get Embroidered, a family run embroidery and print business, as well as three years as Director of Simon Cox Marketing Solutions. Simon has also been a Director of DASH Leisure, a family run business based in Leighton Buzzard, where their business was announced as the Best Marketed Pub in the Charles Wells Brewery in 2003.
Simon is now a co-Director of the North Northants Business Network and the NNBN, the membership organisation formed in 2022 to help support businesses, community groups and organisations recover and rebuild from the pandemic.
BUSINESS NETWORKING
Simon is a former Regional Trainer with Business Network International (BNI) in Northamptonshire, founded the Kettering Business Network and helped set up other business networks in Corby, Wellingborough, East Northants, Northampton, Market Harborough, Daventry and Rugby with plans to develop more groups around the East Midlands area. Simon has led the Kettering Business Network to the SME Business Awards in 2016, 2017 and 2018 and was a Finalist as Entrepreneur of the Year in 2017. The Kettering Business Network were also a Finalist at the 2019 SME National Business Awards for Networking Group of the Year.
He has also supported small businesses in the annual Small Business Saturday campaign, worked with Enterprise Nation at the Amazon Academy in Newcastle and Glasgow as a Digital Marketing Advisor and supported the annual Micro Biz Matters Day.
Simon is now leading the North Northants Business Network across Kettering, Corby, Wellingborough and East Northamptonshire which has a population of 750,000 people and approximately 17,500 businesses, SME&apos;s and micro businesses.
BUSINESS AWARDS
In 2018, Simon founded the Kettering Business Awards where local businesses are recognised for their contribution to the local business community. Simon has also been listed as a Disability Confident Employer in the past and has helped unemployed people gain valuable work experience together with local students gain work placement experience.
During the pandemic, he led a virtual work experience programme for 35 students across the UK providing opportunities for young people to learn about business.
VOLUNTARY WORK
He has also been a Business Advisor to local schools through the Young Enterprise Company Programme and received the Gold Award in 2018 for services to Young Enterprise. He has also been a mentor to young people with the Brightside Charity and has also raised funds for local charities with various events. Simon’s goal is to assist business owners with support and a hands on approach to helping his clients with their business activities on a confidential level.
He has led a number of fundraising events over the years including 92plus1 (visiting all 92 football clubs in the Premier and Football Leagues in 2013) which raised £8k for Help For Heroes, completed the Great North Run for Kettering based Teamwork Trust charity, The Tube Challenge with two members of Team GB raising funds for Niamhs Next Step and slept in cardboard boxes for The Hope Centre in Northampton to raise awareness and funds for the homeless.
In 2019, Simon was a founding member of the Kettering Town Centre Partnership group during the formation of the Partnership who focus on Kettering&apos;s town centre and high street challenges and Chaired the group for 8 months before taking up the role of Vice Chair.
In 2021, Simon was appointed to the board of Kettering Community Unit, a charity in Kettering which supports over 22,000 people in the Kettering area and he also joined the board of Bedford College Services which manages the commercial facilities of the Bedford College Group.
He was also recognised at the Kettering Business Awards for his continuous services to the local business community and thanked publicly by the Mayor of Kettering for his commitment.
In 2022, Simon joined the board of Kettering Community Business Centre Development Trust, which is an Enterprise Centre in Kettering providing serviced offices for start up and small businesses.
Away from business, Simon enjoys spending time with his family and friends as well as football, model railways and listening to music. Simon is also a presenter on Kettering General Hospital Radio and Spectrum on Air and runs the North Northants Business podcast channel which interviews local businesses and talks about what&apos;s happening in North Northamptonshire.

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Having networked since 2009, led business networks since 2015 and being an active business voice in North Northamptonshire, Simon is perfectly placed to talk to you about business networking and how to get results from networking without selling.

Karolina is a startup fundraising and investment expert. In her current position as a Managing Partner at StarBeam venture capital fund, she spends the majority of her time providing strategic advice to startups, reviewing pitch decks and structuring investment deals.
Karolina has a strong focus on the energy sector, on developing and delivering zero-carbon transition strategies, innovating, and driving growth. She is an experienced global energy professional who held increasingly senior positions with Fortune 500 energy companies since 2008. Since 2015 Karolina has been mentoring and advising startup founders in Germany, the US, and the UK. As a founder of She Leads Company, she’s also a champion of female founders and hopes to inspire more women to start their own companies and get the backing they need to bring their big ideas to the world. Having worked with both investors and business owners she is known for her investor-operator mindset and strong business judgement.

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Karolina is a startup fundraising and investment expert. In her current position as a Managing Partner at StarBeam venture capital fund, she spends the majority of her time providing strategic advice to startups, reviewing pitch decks and structuring investment deals.
Karolina has a strong focus on the energy sector, on developing and delivering zero-carbon transition strategies, innovating, and driving growth. She is an experienced global energy professional who held increasingly seni

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