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At the Eden project today, 120 of us are gathered for the Boardroom 2030 event facilitated by the brilliant Charlotte Soule.

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So Boardroom 2030 is a project inviting any organisation to consider what their boardroom could look like in 2030 and to host a session as if it is 2030 and to really think about who might be around the table for that conversation. So it's 2030, who's involved in your decision-making in 2030? Is it your customers? Is it your suppliers? Your employees?

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Is it young people? And then to really consider what's on the agenda for your business in 2030. So what are the brilliant things that you were doing for people and planet in 2030?

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Brilliant. Was there any standout moments for you today that inspired you?

Speaker 1:
Yeah, so I think the beauty of Baudron 2030 is playfulness and having a really different way of thinking about the future that's a bit more experiential. So the bit that comes alive for me is when we actually have those live conversations bringing together different perspectives. So my highlights were 2 things, probably hearing from Good Energy's Good Future Board and just that moment where the audience could suddenly see, wow, these young people know exactly what they want to share and they're bringing so much value. That was brilliant. I also really enjoyed having the chance to do a live mini demo, a mini Borgian 2030 demo with the Eden Project.

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And what was wicked then was just really seeing what kind of rich conversation you can have when you bring activists, artists, young people, designers, and I think just a minute that conversation started to happen, ideas were bubbling up, and after the guest board happened so many conversations begun in the room and I've heard of all these different plans that have come out of it and that was just a 25 minute chat. So what can you do with something small and how can you start these ideas to grow?

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On Wonderspace we ask all our guests to share their story of hopefulness that is not their own, about a person, business or nonprofit who are doing amazing things for the world. I ask this question to people who have been part of this day at the Eden Project.

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My story of hopefulness might be an amazing organisation called Multistory and they bring orchestras to new places so they really engage different types of people who might not get involved in classical music to tell stories and they devise amazing musical projects with young people from different communities. They've done a couple of recent ones around climate change and hearing young people's voices come up through the power of song and music is just incredible. So how do we tackle some of these big challenges with more creative ideas?

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Hi I'm Amelia, I work in renewable energy and I do a lot of climate advocacy work outside of that and my hope for the future is with an organisation called Catalyse Change and they really work on empowering young women in their future in terms of sustainability and really empowering them to know that they're making a difference and kind of not following the standard trajectory of work but really connecting people with networks and yeah just really empowering them to know the change that they can make so I'm really excited to see the young people that come out of that and to see them blossom and yeah see the changes that they make.

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Hi I'm Ian from Good Energy. My story of hopefulness is all about Good Energy's own Good Future board. So Last year we recruited 6 young people, you know, kind of secondary school age, to help us stay true to our purpose of like combating climate change and protecting their futures basically. So they, those 6 people are really what gives me hope for the future.

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Hi, my name's Edward from Trail Running Man, and my story of hopefulness is that there's a charity Go Beyond that exists, and they provide respite breaks for disadvantaged children, where the children can take part in activities, mostly outdoor activities, that challenge them and improve their self-confidence, their self-esteem and enable them to make better choices. People with good self-esteem make good choices.

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I'm Chrissie from Creative Conscience and my story of hopefulness is, and this might not be a very popular story of hope, but it is actually extinction rebellion. I believe that we obviously need businesses, we need policy, government, but we also need civil disobedience in order for us to get back on track, you know, in the same way like the civil rights movement or the stuff reject movement or even before that the abolishment of slavery movement and I believe that XR is a piece of Extinction Rebellion is a piece of the puzzle that we need to get our planet and our world to a place where it can survive for everyone.

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Hi, my name's Eddie Altman. I'm from TYF and Creative Conscience. My story for hopefulness in the future is about empowering, encouraging and teaching education in a better way. How we will do this is by creating an environment where people from industry, whether it be people on health boards or businesses, give their problems that they're dealing with right in here right now to students in education system so they can solve them themselves. Developing those ideas with those students and then helping coach them to pitch those ideas back to the businesses that gave them originally.

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Hi My name is Joe from Bulimol Filmco, so we're a video production company and my story of comfortableness is seeing the great quarters coming down here called Flexi-X. They're doing this amazing kind of protective cardboard packaging, things like drinks bottles, surfboards, all sorts of things. It's just amazing, you know, they're growing fantastically and I've seen their products and things, you get so much plastic when you get drinks, the Nimrod or anything. And the fact they've got this great product and they're really reaching out

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to industry, to me it's just

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really inspiring and hopeful for Cornwall and the planet.

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Hi, my name is Suneta, I work for Uber and my story of impactfulness is about a woman called Julia Page. She used to be the chief of staff for the governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger and his wife, And she then went on to work on CSR for Google and is now the head director of social impact at Uber. She's a fascinating woman who has brought the political to the environmental, to the tech into 1 spot and is using the platform of Uber, of the many platforms Uber has to effect change for the communities we exist in. I think she has done it so well in terms of confusing all her expertise but all the others she doesn't have by involving us who come in and work on our team who offer different perspectives. I have a lot of love and admiration for her and I think she's amazing.

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My name is Veral Rodriguez. I am a campaigner with Extinction Rebellion and a few other environmental campaigns. And my hope is seeing just in the earlier, just a few weeks ago, seeing 1000 scientists take to the streets and demand change and you know they have gotten involved in civil disobedience and the other thing what I love seeing as well is the youth coming out and demanding change and you know doing civil disobedience and shouting at the top of their voices and calling governments to actually act on the climate crisis.

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Hi I'm Mahnoor Kamran and I'm here with Good Energy. My story for hopefulness is a Pakistani, a New York based activist called Aisha Siddiqua and she talks about climate justice from a global south perspective, particularly from the north of Pakistan. But she also talks about it from the sense of communities that are being affected in New York itself. And she talks a lot about fossil fuels and polluters out. And she just organizes like 500, 000 people in New York.

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So I think that's really inspiring. And the fact that she can bring so much change and she's just a university student.

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My name is Trevor Lee. I'm from the Better Presentations More Sales podcast. And my organisation for hopefulness is Parkrun. Because Parkrun is amazing. Parkrun is currently in 762 locations across the UK.

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2 and a half million people take part and 350, 000 volunteers are involved. And it gets people active. And the most important thing for hope for the future is to be active. And that is a great example. So go and support Parkrun.

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Go and do your local Parkrun. Get involved as a volunteer or as an athlete, or runner, I should say. It's great fun and it's a great organization.

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Hello, my name's Charlotte Green. I'm representing Visit Cornwall. And my story of hopefulness is the gleaning group and it is called gleaning cornwall.org.uk and their motto is no good food should go to waste and they salvage all the farm produce. They get gleaning groups to come along and pick all the vegetables that have been left over because farmers are required to sort of grow extra surplus food for their orders. There's always some leftovers so food does not get wasted.

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My name's Alan Moore, I'm the founder of the School for Beautiful Business and my story of hope is this company called Climbworks which are building these incredible machines that are sucking huge quantities of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, so climate take back. It's not just about planting trees, we've got to do something on a much, much bigger scale. And so I think they're a fantastic company, a fantastic business and 1 that the world truly needs.

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Hello, my name is Melissa Thorpe and I am the head of Spaceport Cornwall. My story of hopefulness is our feature in the Final Frontier, which is space. I've just returned from an amazing trip over in America where I went to a conference which was full of the usual space companies, but there's 1 that stuck out and it's called Space Foundation and it's looking at how we make space more sustainable. So whether that's what we're doing in space or how we're getting to space and who can access space, so opening up space for good and for all and they really inspired me to do that here from Cornwall.

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My name's Sy Bellamy from the Eden Project and my sort of hopefulness is actually from days like today things can genuinely change. There's such an energy in the room, a real crackle and you realise that we can talk but doing is really powerful and most of that happens when people come together. So hope for me is bringing people together, sharing a sense of let's do things together and setting out the things that really matter to us and days like they really make a difference.

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My name is Zoe, I'm from the Cornwall Chamber of Commerce. My story of hope for us would be our charity of the year for the Cornwall Chamber of Commerce who are The Wave Project. They're just incredible, they do the most amazing things for young people in Cornwall through serotherapy. I'm sure everybody's heard of them, but they just do amazing things. We just clutch out on our love of Arthur.

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They're just brilliant.

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So Phil Clark, I run an environmental consultancy, Consumium Limited, 1 of the sponsors for today. My story of hope, Earthwatch Europe, brilliant environmental charity but very focused on environmental education so helping people whether that's children, whether that's corporates to understand what's really happening and their role giving them the agency to then do something about it through lots and lots of different initiatives.

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Hi, I'm Mia Cuff. I work at SelfWeb Media in Cornwall. My story of hopefulness for the future is 1 of the secondhand clothing. So the business or more of an app really that people use to purchase secondhand clothing that's making a huge amount of change around the globe really is Vintage where you can purchase second hand clothing online. My

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name's Catherine, I'm with the organisation Good Energy and my story of hopefulness is a charity called Oaks the Overseed Aid for the Kids of Sierra Leone. It's in Sierra Leone in Western Africa in the second biggest city called Bow and it does great work educating children of both primary and secondary age. They really inspire these kids and they give them a way out of poverty.

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I'm Jess Vias from B Lab UK. I work in the community team there, working with all of the brilliant UK B Corp businesses. My story of Hope for Change is a company called Kabub, who you guys might have heard of. They're an amazing B Corp based in London, but they work with lots of communities. And they create really beautiful, joyful behavioral change innovations that engage with the public and with communities on topics such as the climate crisis but also kind of social justice problems such as the cost of living crisis with their community forage intervention and they create really creative and like yeah joyful experiences that show the kind of world that we could live in if we get it right and I think it's really exciting to see that optimism in real life.

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name is Sam Armondi, I'm co-founder and managing director at Thought Quarter, we're a software development agency based here in Cornwall. My story of hopefulness, purely because I've seen them walking through the door right now is the guys over at Boex, Will and Sam. So I think they're living proof that you can take something that means the world to you and turn it into a viable sustainable business idea. Because if you'd heard what they were up to right at the start you would have thought why you've got a thriving business already don't bother changing it and what they're creating is something amazing and disruptive to the sector that is also good for the environment and good for their people it's just a brilliant story all around.

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I'm Samuel Kane. I work for Voice Communications. So we're a PR and marketing agency. And I'm very into B Corp. And I just love, well, I love the story of Fairphone at the moment, because mobile phone, everyone has got 1.

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And I just love that Fairphone are just fighting to be more responsibly sourced materials and also something that you can easily fix, easily repair, you're not going to throw out every year.

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My name is Paul Atkinson, I'm here representing Greenworks Consulting. My story of hopefulness is with a lot of the non-profit organisations out there. So I work closely with 1 called Protect Our Winters, which looks to educate and empower kind of outdoor enthusiasts, so people that are really passionate about going into the outdoors, whether it be the snow or the forest or whatever it may be. It's a relatively new charity in the UK and we look to really educate and motivate these people to go out and to protect the places that they love doing things. And this is really, really powerful because these people are so connected to nature that they've got a really good incentive to protect it and learn more about what they can do in their own lives or in their communities or with their businesses in order to make these places the same for the next generation.

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Abigail Kidd and I'm working for Sea Shepherd UK. My story of hopefulness is our partners, Forest Green Rovers Football Club, who have really shown that sticking to your green credentials and your hope for a more sustainable future can really take you way above and beyond anything that anyone thought was possible. And there isn't anything that is impossible, it's just totally the way that you approach it and the passion that you put behind it.

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Jack Carden from Ex University and my story of hopefulness is looking into Vazer as a company doing amazing things both ethically and in the regeneration sustainability world and it's really impactful and quite game changing in the world of sustainability.

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Simon from Leap, story of hopefulness is definitely that organisations can change the way they operate. So businesses actually don't talk growth. Like Alan said earlier, is actually growth is not the end goal for organizations. Actually it's more about nurturing, it's more about well-being, it's more about stuff that actually makes people happy. Actually, you know, the good stuff from this room is how everyone was wanting to do something, and that actually has more of an effect on the emotions than growth.

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Hi, my name's Lewis Cowan, and my message I hope will be Elon Musk, because I remember being younger, lots of people saying electric cars would be impossible to make And Elon Musk to me seems like someone who just doesn't care what people think and he's just up for proving people wrong

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So Matt Hawking from Leap 1 of the sponsors of today, what are your reflections of this amazing day?

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Great question. So reflections of the day for me is, I don't know, I'm just buzzing basically. And you know, we've been talking about igniting a fire and so today was just, you know, gather a load of people together that might not be the usual suspects, not green converts and stuff like that, just interested in business being done differently and maybe getting some guidance and then throwing them into a kind of an arena that they didn't know what, because they didn't know there was gonna be a bunch of young people on stage and we were gonna have 10 year olds and 14 year olds, right up to 30 years of new audience. So my reflection is just that we've landed a piece of magic. I think that's simple as that.

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And in a beautiful place like Eden Project, the sun's come out and you know, you can hear in the background, people are still here. They're not leaving. They're still talking. So, yeah, I'm I'm just happy that we were able to convene and host this, you know, from this wild idea of hearing the challenges of businesses in Cornwall, being up against the cold face, they couldn't see even the next day how they're going to survive, how can they even act on the environment. So suddenly we've got people wide-eyed open going, we want to boardroom 2030, we want some youth advisors, we're going to contact our local school.

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So we've opened some eyes, my reflection is, I'm just very happy.

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Brilliant. And Matt, what is your story of hopefulness that's not your own about a person, business or nonprofit who are doing amazing things for the world?

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I guess in the way Leap and I work, we're connected to a lot of amazing organizations. But I think on our wishlist ourselves is working with organizations that are really risking themselves like Sea Shepherd. So I just love, I guess, their outright antagonism of the wrongness of what's happening out there and how they put themselves in front of in dangerous situations to make statements and just say stop enough of this so yeah Sea Shepherd would be be that for me and it's kind of like we do I guess the term manifest generation we kind of every year we'll write like 10 organizations people businesses we'd like to connect with work with somehow whether that is from our grant for good or it's paid for work and we put it out into the world. So I hope in this year Sea Shepherd will turn up on our shores.

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To find out more about Boardroom 2030, go to their website, boardroom2030.org. To engage with the previous 69 Wonderspace episodes, go to our website ourwonder.space. It's been a joy to be here at the Eden Project in Cornwall at the Bordering 2030 event and I hope you can join us next week for more wonders and stories of hopefulness.