Kelly Brougham and Amy Swan: Inclusive Wellbeing

Today we have two guests on our podcast – Kelly Brougham and Amy Swan, the co-founders of Active Families North East.

Kelly and Amy share similar values around community resilience, and the importance of supporting each other along with access for everyone to physical activity, so it’s easy to see why they founded a Community Interest Company together.

Their first careers were different, but it is their shared passion of fitness that brought them together. Like many girls, neither were encouraged to enjoy sport at school, and it was only after leaving school that fitness entered their lives.

Both understand that people are interested in people and started their business when both had young children. Understanding and listening to what people needed they decided their instantly know Kelly and Amy knew what they were talking about, and so the business started.

They’ve now been working in their business Active Families for nine years and have developed lots of different sessions that connect people in their local communities. They’ve developed new ideas including an innovative project that they call the Wellbeing Machine – where they take activity to people in their own communities.

Kelly and Amy also share their new project, developing a device, which was showcased on The Big Idea show hosted by Sara Davies.

They talk about how they have built their reputation through developing their own business skills, ensuring their staff are the right people for the job, and seeking support from business mentors.

Overtime, they have also come to recognise that they cannot do everything themselves, so have started to network with other organizations, leading to successful working partnerships including the Salvation Army.

Take a listen and understand their learnings so you can develop a successful organisation that makes a real difference to the people in your local community.

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