Community Matters

About Community Matters

Community Matters is the new podcast hosted by Community Industry Group’s CEO Nicky Sloan that dives into community-driven solutions for pressing issues. Join Nicky as she catches up with community leaders to hear inspiring stories, expert insights, and actionable ideas to create positive change.

Publisher

Community Industry Group

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

13 Dec 2024

Latest episode

20 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

46 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   20 Oct 2026

   Supporting working parents - building family friendly workplaces with Dr Rosina McAlpine

   In this episode of Community Matters, Nicky Sloan sits down with Dr Rosina McAlpine, author, researcher and educator, work and family wellbeing expert and the founder of Win Win Parenting, to explore why working parents are experiencing such high levels of stress, overwhelm and burnout, and what we need to do about it. “We're asking working parents to work like they don't have a family, and we're asking them to raise a family like they don't need to work”, says Dr Rosina. The statistic...

2. 

   6 Oct 2026

   Surplus Food, Hungry Families - The Plan to Fix Food Waste with Melinda Lawton

   Every year, 1.7 million tonnes of food are wasted in NSW, the equivalent of 68 Olympic-size swimming pools. Meanwhile, 38% of households in the Illawarra Shoalhaven region are struggling to get enough to eat, with children going to school hungry and parents heading to work on an empty stomach. In this episode, Nicky Sloan speaks with Melinda Lawton, Project Manager at Healthy Cities Australia, about a practical plan to close that gap. Australia produces enough food to feed its people, yet it ...

3. 

   22 Sept 2026

   Business Meets Charity - The Rise of Social Enterprise with Kylie Flament

   In this episode, Nicky sits down with Kylie Flament, the CEO of SECNA (Social Enterprises Coordinating Council of NSW & ACT), the peak body supporting social enterprises across NSW and the ACT. Kylie has a memorable way of explaining what a social enterprise is: "If a business and a charity had a baby, that's a social enterprise… they exist specifically to make the world a better place." We learn that social enterprises contribute as much to the economy each year as the mining sector, and...

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

8,283

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Spotify

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 29 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

32

Social presence

0

YouTube

68

Engagement

0

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