The Swiftstone Training Podcast: Recent Episodes
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Martyn Linton is the Founder of Swiftstone Training which is part of The Swiftstone Group. In this podcast he will be discussing various topics relating to criminal gangs, exploitation, safeguarding, health & safety, business and more. As providers of professional training to individuals, businesses and he public sector we believe in sharing value with our listeners. Please visit the Swiftstone Training website to find out more about us.
In this episode the audio of a session chaired by Martyn Linton at the 2022 Crimecon UK event called Inside the Mind of a Violent Gang Member.
He invited friends Lennox Rodgers, former gang member and Founder of Kent based gang prevention charity The Refocus Project and Peaky Blinder’s Carl Chinn.
Held on 11/06/22 in London the event was a great success and some great feedback has been given.
Swiftstone Training provide gang prevention, criminal exploitation and safeguarding training services to individuals, businesses and the public sector. View our training at www.swiftstonetraining.com
In this episode we interview Chloe Lord who works in a school and also as a Detached Youth Worker. We discuss what her work involves, current issues young people are experiencing on the street, advice to young people experiencing problems and advice to people who know or suspect a person is involved in gangs or exploitation.
Chloe has worked in a number of roles supporting young people who are at risk of exploitation. Her roles have included education, supported housing and youth work. Chloe understands the issues young people experience and is an experienced professional doing amazing work to support those in need.
In this episode Martyn talks about the importance of a business plan and how they are vital to every business regardless of size. When people are making a journey they will consider things such as what time they need to leave, the route they will take and the method of travel they will use. Business is not different and yet many fail to plan their business journey.
In the episode Martyn talks about a Swiftstone Training online course called Writing a Business Plan. The course can be accessed by clicking/copy and pasting this link: https://www.swiftstonetraining.com/product-page/writing-a-business-plan
In this brief episode Martyn Linton, Founder of Swiftstone Training explains how he specialises in helping start up and small business owners learn new skills to grow their businesses. He also talks about why he started in business.
Greater Manchester Police have just secured convictions against ten gang members attracting a combined sentence of one hundred and thirty one years. In this episode I speak about post code gangs, the risk of retaliation following a gang related assault/murder and reminding people of the three areas of knowledge people need to fight gang crime.
In this episode we explain what the licensing objectives are and how they are such an important aspect of the hospitality sector. We discuss ways in which people have fallen foul of them and ways in which you can help protect your business.
In my last podcast I spoke about being invited to speak at the second Crimecon 2022 event in London to chair a session that is called Inside the Mind of a Violent Gang Member. In this episode I am joined by Lennox Rogers, a former member of street gangs and an organised crime group and Peaky Blinder's own Carl Chinn. Lennox now runs a gang prevention charity called The Refocus Project https://www.refocusproject.org.uk/ Carl Chinn is the great godson of a real Peaky Blinder and he is a historian who looks at gangs. This podcast features unedited audio of our session at Crimecon. Both my guests are authors of books and you can buy them on the following links. I hope you enjoy this session as much as I did. https://www.refocusproject.org.uk/shop/breaking-better-book https://www.amazon.co.uk/Books-Carl-Chinn/s?rh=n%3A266239%2Cp_27%3ACarl+Chinn
This weekend I am attending the second Crimecon event to be held in the UK. In this episode I talk about the session that I am chairing called Inside the Mind of a Violent Gang Member. My first guest is former gang member and organised crime group member Lennox Rogers who having escaped that life now runs a gang prevention charity called Refocus Project in Kent. My second guest is Peaky Blinders very own Professor Carl Chinn who is the great godson of a real Peaky Blinder and is a recognised Historian who specialises in gangs and organised crime. You can find out more about Crimecon by visiting their website at www.crimecon.co.uk
In this podcast Martyn talks about the importance of getting safeguarding right and the impact that is has when failings result in tragedy. Sadly there are too many cases of tragedy occurring after failings by prevention agencies and Martyn's aim is to hammer home the importance of getting safeguarding right the first time.
In this podcast Martyn Linton talks about recent decisions that he has made that has resulted in the restructuring of the business. He speaks about wanting to concentrated his efforts on his passion of preventing gang crime and criminal exploitation and talks about new services that are being offered. To find out more about Swiftstone Training please visit www.swiftstonetraining.com Protocol Training and Support Services can be found at www.protocoltass.co.uk Home Counties Training can be found at www.homecountiestrg.com
In this episode Martyn Linton discusses role models and the influence they have on others. He briefly talks about not having a role model in his youth and how things changed when he did find one. He also compares negative role models with positive role models and ends by asking people to consider being a role model themselves.