Podcasts for good eggs

 

The social impact podcast experts 

We make podcasts & nice audio things, train people how to produce their own podcasts and host meetups for the podcaster community.

#GrabtheMIC now.

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About

 

MIC Media helps good eggs to Grab The MIC and tell their story through awesome audio and podcasts.

 

To date through our Production and Training services, we’ve made over 50 podcasts or audio projects and trained over 1,300 people with podcasting and audio production skills. We also run MIC’s Podcast Club a global community of over 1,000 podcasters!

We’re set-up as a social enterprise and specialise in working with ‘good eggs’; from charities, CIC’s, NPO’s and social enterprises, to value-led corporates, education and local authorities. Put simply, we get the social impact sector.

We get out of bed every morning to provide opportunities for everyone to Grab The MIC and find their voice through top-notch audio. Especially amplifying often unheard voices and stories.
Our important work contributes to a richer, more diverse landscape of brilliant audio and podcasts, where you’ll hear lots of different perspectives, thoughts and experiences.
MIC’s Silver Audio Production Award winners and also British Podcast Award nominated. These massive industry accolades buzz our little socks off.
We also regularly feature in the press as recognised podcast industry experts including The Guardian and the Third Sector podcast.

 

Vic Elizabeth Turnbull founded MIC in 2019, and is also a judge for the British Podcast Awards and International Women’s Podcast Awards too and co-founder of Pods Up North, an annual conference for podcasters. Vic’s racked up almost sixteen years of experience across the creative and social good sector. But don’t remind her of that as it makes her feel old.

 

So let us help you to #GrabtheMIC and amplify your voice.

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MIC Client Journey's

Read how MIC is creating an impact and making a difference to social impact organisations through our podcast services.

Including creating award-winning podcasts for local authorities, Royal recognition, philanthropic donor thank-you’s via podcasts, training community reporters and school kids to create their own audio content and helping organisations to secure new partnerships and win fundraising bids.

Browse our case studies here
MIC Client Journey's

What We Do

Podcast Production

Podcast Production

 

Idea development, recording, editing, distribution and marketing

 

MIC makes podcasts and we’d love to produce yours. To date we’ve created over 50 podcasts and audio projects with clients.

We take away all that ‘how do we make this thing?!’ stress and turn your idea into a cracking sounding podcast.

We’ll help you to tell the world your story; share your latest campaigns or outcomes; creatively report to funders and stakeholders or to simply show off your impressive expertise.

Our production clients include Co-op (left), Plan International, Children’s University and Manchester City Council.

 

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Podcast Training

 

Real-time workshops, multi-session courses and 1:1 coaching

Learn how to podcast with MIC – whether it’s for you, your team, beneficiaries or members. To date we’ve trained over 1,200 people how to podcast and audio production skills.

Our audio training is tailored to fit your projects, learning objectives and audience. Best of all, it’s jargon-free and suitable for absolute beginners and technophobes.

Every quarter we also put on our own classes that you can book onto via our eventbrite.

Our training clients include PIE (right), Royal Northern College of Music, UnLtd and University of Salford.

More about our Podcast Training Our eventbrite
Podcast Training
A Blended Approach

A Blended Approach

 

Our training and production package to help you launch a brilliant sounding podcast.

This is for you, if want to learn how to make a podcast yourself and ensure what you launching sounds quality and professional.

We combine our unique podcast training and professional audio production to get you to a point where you are ready to launch your podcast and release your first episodes! You’re then left with the skills, templates and audio to continue to make your awesome sounding podcast.

Our blended clients include National Football Museum (left), UnLtd, Durham University and Yellow Jigsaw.

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MIC's Podcast Club

 

A community for podcasters to help each other make brilliant podcasts.

MIC’s Podcast Club brings together 900 podcast creators including DIY podcasters & audio industry pros at monthly virtual and in-person meetup events.

We also invite the odd special podcast guest too, these have included Brown Girls Do It Too, BBC Sounds, Olly Mann (Answer Me This), Obsessed with…Line of Duty and Arielle Nissenblatt.

Podcaster? Join our community of 900 podcast makers – we’d love to have ya.

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MIC's Podcast Club
Grab The MIC: Live

Grab The MIC: Live

 

Live streamed conversations with podcasters from across the not-for-profit world.

We spotlight the good egg podcasters who are doing brilliant things in our corner of the world. We show you the huge and exciting possibilities when it comes to podcasts in the Third Sector.

We want to inspire you to start your own podcast or perhaps give you some helpful hints and tips to boost or reinvigorate the one that you already have!

Guests include Children’s University and Made by Mortals.

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MIC news and views

  • in-person podcaster meetup social

    December Manchester Podcaster meetup social!

    27 Nov , 2023

    It’s MIC’s Podcast Club’s in-person Manchester Podcaster meetup and dear podcaster, you’re invited! MIC’s ‘social’ is a chance to have a drink with, meet and chat with fellow podcasters and audio geeks in Manchester City Centre on Friday 8th December 2023. RSVP HERE – TELL US YOU’RE COMING! Some of the lovely podcasters at our

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    Double award-win for football podcast!

    26 Oct , 2023

    MIC media and The National Football Museum scoop two awards, ‘Best Podcast’ and ‘Best of The Best’, at this year’s MPA Inspiration Awards, for the ‘Quite Unsuitable for Females’ football podcast. The annual awards recognise the best and brightest in Manchester’s creative, digital and media industries.  We are over the moon to win ‘Best Podcast’ with

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    Oxfam and Save The Children podcast launches!

    02 Sep , 2023

    MIC works with the Global Protection Cluster’s Advocacy Working Group, which is co-led by Save The Children and Oxfam, to produce the ‘Advocating For Protection’ podcast,  featuring voices from Ukraine and Yemen. The series spotlights the experiences and stories of people from across the world who are advocating for the protection of civilians in conflict

  • podcast content

    Not for profits! 3 places to find podcast content right now

    28 Aug , 2023

    I often say that as social impact organisations you don’t have to look far for content. You’ve got a wealth of diverse, authentic and personable stories right at your fingertips. In this helpful blog post, I’ll point you to 3 places where you can find podcast content right now! ‘How do I find great podcast

  • mpa best podcast

    Nominated for Best Podcast!

    30 Jul , 2023

    Back of the net! Our podcast production for the National Football Museum ‘Quite Unsuitable for Females’ has been nominated for ‘Best Podcast’ at this year’s MPA Awards from the Manchester Publicity Association – the voice of Manchester’s communications community. We’re chuffed to bits to be nominated in this year’s MPA Inspiration Awards in their ‘Best

  • vic on the stage at podnews live

    MIC speaks at the inaugural Podnews industry conference

    23 Jul , 2023

    MIC media’s founder Vic Elizabeth Turnbull took to the stage at the inaugural Podnews Live event in Manchester, sharing her passion for the power of podcasts to change people’s lives for the better. The event, which was hosted by Podnews, one of the biggest podcast industry newsletters and podcasts, brought together podcast industry movers and

MIC's Project Portfolio includes,

National Football Museum – Quite Unsuitable for Females
Blended / Homepage / Production / Training
UnLtd
Homepage / Training
Digital Advantage
Homepage / Training
Artichoke
Homepage / Production
Co-op Conversations
Homepage / Production
Plan International
Homepage / Production
Talking About My Generation
Homepage / Training
Strong Manchester Women Podcast
Homepage / Production
Press Coverage

Press Coverage

We regularly get the tables turned on us and get asked to speak on other people’s podcasts!

Discover more about MIC Media, direct from the horses mouth. Here’s a selection of those. Plus the folk who’ve featured us in their newspapers, on their radio shows websites and blogs too.

For press enquires just drop us a line via our little contact form below.

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Team MIC

MIC Media was founded in 2018 by Vic Elizabeth Turnbull. Her big passion is help people to amplify their voice and stories, especially if they’re unheard or underrepresented.

She has this proper unique blend of experience having worked in the creative sector and with national, award-winning youth charities. This includes designing youth empowerment programmes, leading creative projects, managing 3-story pop-up shops, radio presenting and producing… Not to mention events, exhibitions and media productions at/for BBC 5Live, Cabinet Office, Mayor of London, V&A, House of Commons, Manchester Town Hall and 11 Downing Street – but to name a few! Told you it was varied. I mean, there’s loads more but we’ve only got a bit of space here.

She’s also the co-founder of Pods Up North, a conference for podcasters, that held it’s first event in Nov 2019 and was sponsored by Spotify.

MIC’s also #blessed to have and had the support of freelancers Danielle Porter, Jamie Green, Kate Mardon, Charles Commins, Sarah Leech, Vicky Wright, Owen Thornton and Ellen Macleod.

Team MIC

We 💗 MIC

  • 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.

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    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.

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    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.”

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    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.”

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    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.

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    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.”

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    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.

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    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!

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    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!

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    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.

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    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.

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    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!

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    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!

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    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!

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    Simone Callaghan – Director, The Goodness Collective CIC

Contact MIC

Whether you're looking for a bad-ass production company to make your podcast, or perhaps you'd like to have a bash at making your own, drop us a line and let's see how we can help. Whatever it is, MIC would love to hear from you.

Email :

hey@MICmedia.co.uk

Address :

Manchester, M1