• A basic role play game where participants experience running a social enterprise.
• The challenge of the social entrepreneur – balancing social and commercial goals, and practicing self-care rather than self-sacrifice.

Approach

1. Introduce the activity by telling the group that they are going to create an experience of running a social enterprise.
2. Roles: Within each group, ask group members to select their roles in the social enterprise:
• Sales or Business Development
• Entrepreneur and ideas person
• Manager: quality, administration or financial management
Give each group 10 minutes to discuss and select their roles.
Once the groups have chosen roles and an enterprise name, the main activity can begin.
3. The facilitator now hosts a series of situations/questions. Tell the group you will present them with situations for their social enterprise, and the groups need to consider how they would respond to each situation.
4. Group members can be encouraged to think about their role, and ‘act’ the way they believe someone in their role would act.
5. Present the situations (see table below): each situation can be looked at/discussed independently, or facilitators can get the group to think about each situation and how it relates to the decision they made for the situation before.
6. Use as many situations as time allows. Give the group 2 minutes per situation to talk over their group response before they move.
7. Review each decision once the group moves and ask one member from each group – in character – to explain their group’s decision.
8. Once all situations are complete, invite the groups to review any learning points as a full group.