Witness at Work | Chris Mould
Inspired... with Simon Guillebaud
Great Lakes Outreach
4.9 • 663 Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Profiled by Guardian Newspapers as one of the UK’s top social entrepreneurs, Chris Mould has been involved in over twenty start-ups and new ventures. Between 2007 and 2017 he led the Trussell Trust through its transition from a small Christian Charity to a multi award winning national organisation that launched over 450 foodbanks. Amidst all the success, he speaks candidly and movingly about the loss of his beloved wife Angela, his own health issues, and now the exciting future at Ffald y Brenin Christian retreat centre. It’s a wonderful podcast!
▶️ Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/00LHH43HS4Q
Contact Chris at chris[@]chrismould.co.uk
Check out Ffald y Brenin Christian Retreat Centre at ffald-y-brenin.org
Also, the Foundation for Social Change and Inclusion at HouseofOpportunity.org
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| 0:00.0 | I remember in the Mental Health Service, we had a financial crisis across the wider health area, |
| 0:08.0 | and we were told to cut back by a million pounds. |
| 0:11.0 | I tried to resist, I tried to say what damage would be caused, we were told, no way, you have to do it. |
| 0:17.0 | And we went to the final meeting, I prayed beforehand with five of us praying actually. |
| 0:21.6 | The director of finance started the meeting by saying, Chris, can you just remind me, how much are we talking about? |
| 0:29.6 | And he looked and said, oh, only a million. |
| 0:31.6 | I think we can manage that. |
| 0:33.6 | That's not a problem. |
| 0:34.6 | Wow. |
| 0:35.6 | We've gone with the faith that the Lord could work a miracle. |
| 0:38.3 | Yes. And he did. |
| 0:40.3 | Welcome, everybody. This is Simon Gilber with Inspired. Great. |
| 0:44.3 | Be back for another fantastic week. I'm really looking forward to this one. |
| 0:48.3 | Listen, we just get so much bad news. Please don't spend your time on the 24-7 news cycle. Get off it. Maybe five minutes a day |
| 0:55.4 | is good so that you know what's going on. You can pray into what's going in the world. Otherwise, |
| 0:59.5 | get into the Word of God. Get into stuff like this, which is basically feeding ourselves |
| 1:04.4 | stories of what God is doing through one of our brothers or sisters. This week, it's definitely |
| 1:09.1 | a brother around the world doing beautiful |
| 1:11.7 | stuff. So listen, we have got with us the wonderful Chris Mould. Welcome, Chris. Hi, Simon. Thanks very |
| 1:17.5 | much for inviting me to join you. Yeah, it's going to be great. So, folks, if you haven't heard of |
| 1:22.1 | Chris, well, he was profiled a while back by the Guardian newspapers as one of the UK's top social |
| 1:26.5 | entrepreneurs. Chris led the |
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