MIC Media realises the untapped potential of podcasts in the social purpose sector. Through their work, they support organisations to help them amplify underrepresented voices. It’s been a pleasure to work with and support them and we wish you all the best for the next step in MIC Media’s growth.
Sam Freston, Programmes & Partnerships Advisor, The Co-op Foundation
MIC Media’s podcast workshop videos are without a doubt the best training videos we’ve put together to deliver to our young people. They’ve set the bar a little higher for us now. MIC is really good at communicating with young people, their training is engaging, and It’s been a real pleasure to work with MIC Media. It’s been really profound actually and I don’t normally have to look hard for the teary moments, but everything that I’ve done so far with MIC’s podcast training has turned up some of the greatest surprises. I’ve seen a lot of young people feel very pleased with themselves in the podcast work they’ve produced.
Ezra Rushen – Creative Director, Digital Advantage
A very engaging workshop and a great learning experience.
Vic from MIC is a very good trainer who knows how to engage her audience. She explained the steps clearly and concisely and took the fear out of creating a podcast.
I’d never really considered doing one for my social enterprise before, but I feel that it’s something I’d like to do in the future. This is because it no-longer feels like something out of reach for me!”
MIC Podcast Workshop Attendee Feedback
A fantastic, amazing, phenomenal, mind-blowing session. I can’t believe I’ve gone from knowing nothing about podcasts to knowing the basics of how to make one in just 3 hours. Thanks, MIC!
MIC Podcast Workshop Attendee Feedback
“I feel incredibly privileged to have been able to attend a MIC Media podcast workshop. I started from knowing virtually nothing about podcasts and ended with comprehensive knowledge and confidence to start and produce a podcast.
Vic was so approachable, relatable, and answered all my questions. Her feedback was second to none and I would highly recommend to anyone who has had the thought of starting a podcast cross their mind to attend a MIC Media Podcast Workshop. You will not regret it!”
MIC Podcast Workshop Attendee Feedback
It was such a pleasure to work with MIC Media in setting up our podcast, ‘Now and Men: current conversations on men’s lives’. For a long time, I’ve wanted to create a podcast, but it is only thanks to Vic that this has actually become a reality. We learned so much from her about the whole process – and we had lots of fun.
I feel really proud about what we have come up with and confident we can keep it growing, which is all thanks to Vic and MIC Media. Setting up a podcast successfully requires learning a range of knowledge and skills, so if you are serious about it, I would say look no further than MIC Media to get started.
Dr Stephen Burrell – Early career fellow, Durham University
The high-quality podcasts, produced by MIC, have enabled Fight for Peace to deliver valuable content to over 100 global partners. Podcasts are seamless and polished and cleverly pieced together. Working with MIC has been a pleasure and would welcome future collaboration.
Ana Vacas – Alliance Programme Manager, Fight for Peace
“Working with Vic at MIC is always fantastic – her friendly and approachable manner makes everything simple and stress free. Her organised approach and carefully planned sessions are great – she always runs through the process with a non-technical person (ME!!) in a really clear way to help me understand.
MIC’s delivery to young people is both professional and engaging – kids love working with Vic and think she’s very, very cool.! The quality of your podcasts are great and I can not recommend working with MIC Media enough.”
Beth Nunn – CEO, PIE
“We wanted to give our group of over 50’s community reporters a voice through podcasting. So we got MIC Media in to do podcast training. But that’s just taken us to a level that we didn’t expect to get. As well as our own podcast made by the group, we’ve got an older reporter now sharing his audio editing skills with our student interns. It’s such a success story. We’d recommend MIC Media to any organisation that is looking to enter the world of podcasting.”
Grace Dyke – Strategic Director, Yellow Jigsaw
If you are a corporate organisation or a local authority and you are looking for somebody to help you to resonate with your audience, with your people, then MIC Media are absolutely the right people to do it.
Sofia Higgins – Equalities Lead, Manchester City Council
“At the beating heart of our organisation is the people that we serve. We want to work with partners who are community-minded too, who share those values and understand the types of communities that we work with. This is really important to us and MIC ticks all those boxes.”
Andy Smith – Artistic Director, Made by Mortals
MIC Media is great, they’ve got great ethics and they really understand our network of female social entrepreneurs. As a result of the brilliant podcast MIC produces for us, we’ve got this great library of support that we can signpost people to. They compliment our training and learning offer too. The podcast has motivated us to find the money to keep doing it because it’s so useful. We now put podcasting into our funding bids and our consultancy pieces and it’s helped us win new work.
Nickala Torkington – Co-founder & Director, Flourish Together
MIC Media ran a series of podcasting workshops with us at MediaCityUK as part of our Creative Conference. The workshops were engaging and pacey and the students loved it. Thanks, Vic and MIC Media. We will never look at socks in the same way again!
Catherine Davies – Head of Journalism, Media, Media Make-up & Music, Salford College
After Googling “How to make a podcast” I thought I need some help here. I spotted that Vic Elizabeth Turnbull runs the MIC media podcasting club. She’s like the Queen B of podcasting! So now I have 2 podcasts – one to tell people about my business which we’ve had some great feedback on and the other I produce just for fun called My Garden Podcast. Today, I looked at the podcasting charts, it’s only Number 30 in the Home and Garden section!
Steve Blears – Director, Bit Famous
Vic was amazing at helping and supporting me. She gave me those much-needed tips and advice for a complete beginner and amateur podcaster. She helped me get my head around it all with the equipment and how to find the right platform. Basically, she made it a much less daunting and scary task. So now I’ve got The Ambitious Mum Podcast, I’m on my third episode this week and I’m very grateful for her advice and help.
Kate Moryouseff – Founding Director, Coaching by Kate
At the start of the year, I knew I wanted to start a podcast but other than that I didn’t know how we were going to achieve it. I’d seen something about Vic doing this so I looked her up, saw that she had a podcast that just described exactly how I felt. She’s a really great teacher, she’s a lovely person, you feel at ease with her straight away and she feels like there’s nothing that you can’t do and gives you the guidance that you need.
Nina Dar – Business Owner, Cheeky Monkey Business Solutions
After spending months organising a conference and getting the right speakers to inform and inspire our delegates, we wanted to ensure their stories had a legacy and reach way beyond the confines of the four walls and the two days of the event itself. The solution we found was working with MIC Media. Within a couple of weeks of our conference, we were able to launch a series of podcasts recorded live at the event. They’re shareable, accessible anywhere, and they’ve inspired our organisation to explore audio as a whole new communications channel. Thank you!
Helen O’Donnell – CEO, Children’s University
Podcasting was something we’d been keen to try but had no idea where to start. Working with Vic as part of a small group session was an amazing introduction to the process and filled us with the confidence we needed to hit record. Her information was detailed but never overwhelming and, most importantly, made our first episode actually seem possible! Stop contemplating your podcast any further and book a meeting with Vic – you’ll wish you did it sooner!
Lisa Durrant – Marketing Manager, Cheadle Hulme School
I went along to one of MIC’s podcast sessions not sure what to expect, but Vic just made it seem so do-able! Podcasting is an untapped potential market for the good causes sector to shout about the great work they do and raise their profile. MIC cuts through the fears and highlights to us all, regardless of our work, budgets and expertise we can all get going. MIC’s workshops are essential in giving you a push in the right direction and the basic knowledge required to give podcasting a go! Highly recommended.
MIC has caused me one problem though, I now have no excuse not to get started!
Simone Callaghan – Director, The Goodness Collective CIC
