[Music]
if you read as much news as I do on a
daily basis you might think that the
world is a bit of a volatile place right
now so we’ve got brexit that’s around
the corner we’ve got austerity growing
homelessness obesity problem and an NHS
in crisis and many of you in this room
might feel that there’s very little that
you and I can actually do about that we
think about what we can do is a picture
of a homeless man that’s actually taken
in Lincoln and the thing is that we do
our bit where we can we donate money to
charity and we take part in events to
raise money for charity and we look to
our leaders the people in power are
politicians to try and bring about
change and to solve some of those issues
and what is it that’s really happening
are we actually creating a change so the
UK donated quite a lot of money to
charity in the last year so you and I
are doing that and we do our bit as I
said when we can and we look to the
charities to solve some of these issues
that’s me running when I absolutely hate
running calling threw mud pits and
there’s me of my friends get in paint
drenched all over us all in the name of
charity and this is the woman that I
sponsored for two years and she now runs
a business in the Republic of Congo how
many here have actually taken part an
event similar to that so who here’s
raised money for charity done a 5k
anyone here run a man at marathon at all
and then you want to run the channel I
really want to meet someone who swam the
channel
not today okay okay who raised your
hands if you’ve donated to money in the
last three months or you’ve bought
something from a charity shop that’s
fantastic we really are doing our bit
and we’re actually very very generous
nation but my question is it’s what I’m
doing and what you’re doing enough
are we really creating the change that
we see in the world today we still got
issues like this and in some cases some
of the issues are getting pathetic I
mean issues like this well when we look
at the picture it becomes quite clear
the people that we look to to create
change and to bring about that change
charities and governments they simply
don’t have enough resources and the
people that do have the resources
they’re not doing enough they’re not
doing enough some are doing some good
things which is great but overall these
people are not doing enough so what can
you and I do to bring about change and
to create change in the world today well
first of all every person in this room
matters everything that you do matters
and if you are somebody in the audience
who’s seeking a purpose in life wants to
feel a bit happier wants to feel more
satisfied then people that do good and
kind things generally do feel more
satisfied with their life so I’m going
to give you four ways that you can
matter more and the first one starts
with heart I want you to think about
what it is that you care about what are
you passionate about what do you want to
change
does anyone recognize any of these faces
these are not millionaires or
celebrities these are ordinary people
who through tragedy injustice conscience
circumstance all actually just really
simply damn about something have made
something happened and change something
campaign led by Liz Longhurst the
possession of violent and extreme
pornography such as images like rape and
torture is now banned in the UK Liz
fought really long and hard for this to
happen after the murder of her daughter
by a man who viewed thousands of these
images before she was killed a face I’m
sure many of you here would recognize
few nods in the audience Sarah pain she
campaigned for years to allow parents
the rights deny the convicted pedophile
is living in their communities despite
the pain of these two women label about
change that has made the world a better
place for all of us here today maybe
less well known Lucy Anne Holmes she
campaigned for no more page free thank
God for that
and Ethan spiel be who recently won a
very long campaign to allow men who have
sex with men to give blood these are
very ordinary people who have done
extraordinary things and made things
happen so my question to you is what do
you want to change and what can you do
to create change the second way that you
can matter is head everybody in this
room has a brain you have skills you
have talent and the way that you can
matter is to use those skills and that
talent and that knowledge for good like
the hairdresser who cuts hair for the
homeless and transforms their lives all
the women who gives a weekly English
language lessons to refugees or maybe
the man from the Isle of Wight who
teaches kids to skateboard or as he puts
it teaches them to face their fears and
to have fun and to itten to face those
fears head-on the third way that you can
matter is time and I’m sure there are
many people in this audience who will
just say I don’t have the time but
actually you do if you are lucky to live
to the grand old age of 81 which is the
UK life expectancy then you have over 42
million minutes to matter it’s not that
you don’t have the time you’re just
making a conscious choice to spend it
doing something else and you have to ask
yourself is what I’m doing matter
and lastly the fourth way that you can
matter can actually be found in your
pockets and your purse so I want
everyone here to go into their pockets
or their bag right now and pull out the
cash that you have here with you today
I’m not going to ask you to give it
you’re going to walk out of here exactly
the same amount of money is when you
walked in get some of that cash out now
and at the same time I want you to think
about your bank balance then when
thinking about that bank balance that
number that’s in their heads yeah we’ve
all got that number yep fantastic I’m
not going to ask you to donate that
money I’m just asking you to think about
how you spend it and this is really
really powerful if we think about all
the products that we buy on a daily
basis and if we really want businesses
to start using some of their resources
for good then we need to start buying
products and services that impact us
positively on our lives we need to start
asking questions whereas my food come
from was any animals harmed in the
making of this products how do the
bosses treat their staff these are all
important questions that we need to
start asking each other and this this is
what’s really powerful for us we as
consumers have quite a lot of power and
how we spend this really does matter and
if anyone’s unsure about how they could
spend some of this money then the good
shopping guide has hundreds and hundreds
of brands and products on there that
give an ethical rating out of 100 on how
these businesses and brands rate on
things like the environment and workers
rights and it’s definitely worth going
to have a look at this website
many of you here will spend a large
chunk of their monthly salary in a
supermarket one of these that are on the
board here but some are better than
others and we can start voting with our
feet in fact ethical spending is
increasing and actually what’s happening
because of that it’s businesses are now
responding if we start spending
positively the market is going to be
forced to respond and we’ll start making
products and services that do impact us
positively and then we can start to see
those businesses using their resources
to bring about change the title of my
talk was do you matter of course every
single person here in this room matters
but my question is could you matter more
use your head your heart your cash and
just some of your time and just see what
kind of difference you can make in the
world thank you
you
if you read as much news as I do on a
daily basis you might think that the
world is a bit of a volatile place right
now so we’ve got brexit that’s around
the corner we’ve got austerity growing
homelessness obesity problem and an NHS
in crisis and many of you in this room
might feel that there’s very little that
you and I can actually do about that we
think about what we can do is a picture
of a homeless man that’s actually taken
in Lincoln and the thing is that we do
our bit where we can we donate money to
charity and we take part in events to
raise money for charity and we look to
our leaders the people in power are
politicians to try and bring about
change and to solve some of those issues
and what is it that’s really happening
are we actually creating a change so the
UK donated quite a lot of money to
charity in the last year so you and I
are doing that and we do our bit as I
said when we can and we look to the
charities to solve some of these issues
that’s me running when I absolutely hate
running calling threw mud pits and
there’s me of my friends get in paint
drenched all over us all in the name of
charity and this is the woman that I
sponsored for two years and she now runs
a business in the Republic of Congo how
many here have actually taken part an
event similar to that so who here’s
raised money for charity done a 5k
anyone here run a man at marathon at all
and then you want to run the channel I
really want to meet someone who swam the
channel
not today okay okay who raised your
hands if you’ve donated to money in the
last three months or you’ve bought
something from a charity shop that’s
fantastic we really are doing our bit
and we’re actually very very generous
nation but my question is it’s what I’m
doing and what you’re doing enough
are we really creating the change that
we see in the world today we still got
issues like this and in some cases some
of the issues are getting pathetic I
mean issues like this well when we look
at the picture it becomes quite clear
the people that we look to to create
change and to bring about that change
charities and governments they simply
don’t have enough resources and the
people that do have the resources
they’re not doing enough they’re not
doing enough some are doing some good
things which is great but overall these
people are not doing enough so what can
you and I do to bring about change and
to create change in the world today well
first of all every person in this room
matters everything that you do matters
and if you are somebody in the audience
who’s seeking a purpose in life wants to
feel a bit happier wants to feel more
satisfied then people that do good and
kind things generally do feel more
satisfied with their life so I’m going
to give you four ways that you can
matter more and the first one starts
with heart I want you to think about
what it is that you care about what are
you passionate about what do you want to
change
does anyone recognize any of these faces
these are not millionaires or
celebrities these are ordinary people
who through tragedy injustice conscience
circumstance all actually just really
simply damn about something have made
something happened and change something
campaign led by Liz Longhurst the
possession of violent and extreme
pornography such as images like rape and
torture is now banned in the UK Liz
fought really long and hard for this to
happen after the murder of her daughter
by a man who viewed thousands of these
images before she was killed a face I’m
sure many of you here would recognize
few nods in the audience Sarah pain she
campaigned for years to allow parents
the rights deny the convicted pedophile
is living in their communities despite
the pain of these two women label about
change that has made the world a better
place for all of us here today maybe
less well known Lucy Anne Holmes she
campaigned for no more page free thank
God for that
and Ethan spiel be who recently won a
very long campaign to allow men who have
sex with men to give blood these are
very ordinary people who have done
extraordinary things and made things
happen so my question to you is what do
you want to change and what can you do
to create change the second way that you
can matter is head everybody in this
room has a brain you have skills you
have talent and the way that you can
matter is to use those skills and that
talent and that knowledge for good like
the hairdresser who cuts hair for the
homeless and transforms their lives all
the women who gives a weekly English
language lessons to refugees or maybe
the man from the Isle of Wight who
teaches kids to skateboard or as he puts
it teaches them to face their fears and
to have fun and to itten to face those
fears head-on the third way that you can
matter is time and I’m sure there are
many people in this audience who will
just say I don’t have the time but
actually you do if you are lucky to live
to the grand old age of 81 which is the
UK life expectancy then you have over 42
million minutes to matter it’s not that
you don’t have the time you’re just
making a conscious choice to spend it
doing something else and you have to ask
yourself is what I’m doing matter
and lastly the fourth way that you can
matter can actually be found in your
pockets and your purse so I want
everyone here to go into their pockets
or their bag right now and pull out the
cash that you have here with you today
I’m not going to ask you to give it
you’re going to walk out of here exactly
the same amount of money is when you
walked in get some of that cash out now
and at the same time I want you to think
about your bank balance then when
thinking about that bank balance that
number that’s in their heads yeah we’ve
all got that number yep fantastic I’m
not going to ask you to donate that
money I’m just asking you to think about
how you spend it and this is really
really powerful if we think about all
the products that we buy on a daily
basis and if we really want businesses
to start using some of their resources
for good then we need to start buying
products and services that impact us
positively on our lives we need to start
asking questions whereas my food come
from was any animals harmed in the
making of this products how do the
bosses treat their staff these are all
important questions that we need to
start asking each other and this this is
what’s really powerful for us we as
consumers have quite a lot of power and
how we spend this really does matter and
if anyone’s unsure about how they could
spend some of this money then the good
shopping guide has hundreds and hundreds
of brands and products on there that
give an ethical rating out of 100 on how
these businesses and brands rate on
things like the environment and workers
rights and it’s definitely worth going
to have a look at this website
many of you here will spend a large
chunk of their monthly salary in a
supermarket one of these that are on the
board here but some are better than
others and we can start voting with our
feet in fact ethical spending is
increasing and actually what’s happening
because of that it’s businesses are now
responding if we start spending
positively the market is going to be
forced to respond and we’ll start making
products and services that do impact us
positively and then we can start to see
those businesses using their resources
to bring about change the title of my
talk was do you matter of course every
single person here in this room matters
but my question is could you matter more
use your head your heart your cash and
just some of your time and just see what
kind of difference you can make in the
world thank you
you
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