What makes a social enterprise?

It’s really important to get young people thinking about setting up a social enterprise as a viable career path. RISE is the voice for South West social enterprise and supports the development of sustainable social enterprises in the region. So they’ve come up with a lesson plan and a handout (attached) that you can use to encourage young people to start thinking about social entrepreneurship.

Introduction and outline structure of the session (5 mins)

N.b worksheets A and B attached should be given out before start of session.

What is an enterprise? (5 mins)

Get some ideas from the group of young people about what an enterprise might be.

Ideas = business, selling goods and services to customers, trading, having an idea that makes money etc

Worksheets A and B (5 mins each sheet, plus 5 minutes discussion)

To complete with a partner

DVD - Trail Blazers Make Your Mark: Change Lives – (10 mins)

Video showing 5 social enterprises in action. The 5 social enterprises are:
Continuous Entertainment – a recording studio in South London
Blue Ventures – an ecotourism social enterprise
Jamie Oliver’s Fifteen restaurant
Café Direct – UK’s largest fair-trade hot drinks company
Waterworks – a social enterprise run by school pupils in County Durham

Points of interest from the DVD? (5 - 10 mins, depending on ideas coming forward)

Any ideas for your own social enterprise?

Summing up (5 mins)

close and distribution by school of free Trailblazers magazine

45 mins – 1 hour total

To find out more about social enterprise in the South West, see: www.rise-sw.co.uk

Session_from_RISE.pdf