Eight Chorlton High students went to an Innovation and Social Enterprise Schools conference at Urbis, Manchester in November 2007. Different stalls were laid out by social enterprises advertising their activities. To get a flavour of the conference, two students filmed a few stalls.

Opening shots of school conference on social enterprises

Watch the film and see if you can see what some social enterprises are called. See if you can tell what they do from their names or the contents of their stalls?

DIG are an organic box delivery company in Manchester. They are a young company, just starting out and we filmed them over Christmas 2007, to find out about their business and consider why they might be called a social enterprise.

Watch the 5 minute film below, listening out for the social issues and environmental concerns that they think about as part of doing their jobs.

Consider the following questions:
What are their motivations for starting the company?

Why did they decide to set up an organic box delivery rather than another business?

Why do they try to buy from local farmers and producers?

Why do they buy from Europe as part of a ‘worker’s co-operative’?

Social Entrepreneurs Beth and Alan talk about their Manchester organic box delivery business

Share your thoughts about DIG, as a company and as a social enterprise. Fill in the box below and click on ‘Submit Comment’..

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Look through the different entries and you will see some questions and a film to watch. Watch the film, thinking about the questions and then write in the Comments section what you think…