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The Giving Nation TV Challenge documentary follows three schools as they compete against each other in an exciting social enterprise.
Social enterprise’s focus is not producing a profit but providing solutions to issues that impact on society in a entrepreneurial and enterprising manner. The schools were given a grant of £250 by Giving Nation and asked to simulate forming a social enterprise over a five-week period. The three schools chosen to compete in the Giving Nation TV Challenge were Phoenix School Hammersmith London; Wilmington Enterprise College, Dartford; Kent and Highfields School, Matlock, Derbyshire.
Giving Nation selected these schools because they broadly represented schools across England as they contain an urban, suburban and rural school. Different groups in each school first go through a pitching process to a local panel of experts, which included their Head Teacher and local social entrepreneurs. The group with the best idea was chosen to represent the school and then the documentary follows the highs and lows of each group of young people as they run their social enterprise.
The documentary concludes with the group travelling to London to have their ideas reviewed by a prominent panel of social entrepreneurs. The judging panel consisted of Nigel Kershaw Chief Executive of the Big Issue, Penny Newman Managing Director of Cafe Direct, Eric Samuels of Community Foods Enterprise and Andy Thornton founder of the Giving Nation Challenge.
The documentary was made by the Community Channel and was screened by them on their channel starting 11th June 2007. All three episodes of the documentary can also be seen on this website.
Giving Nation hope that this TV documentary will encourage schools across England to enter the TV documentary and students are very much encouraged to use it to lobby their schools to enter the Giving Nation Challenge. Teachers might also want to use the documentary as a teaching aide in Citizenship lessons.
Social enterprise’s focus is not producing a profit but providing solutions to issues that impact on society in a entrepreneurial and enterprising manner. The schools were given a grant of £250 by Giving Nation and asked to simulate forming a social enterprise over a five-week period. The three schools chosen to compete in the Giving Nation TV Challenge were Phoenix School Hammersmith London; Wilmington Enterprise College, Dartford; Kent and Highfields School, Matlock, Derbyshire.
Giving Nation selected these schools because they broadly represented schools across England as they contain an urban, suburban and rural school. Different groups in each school first go through a pitching process to a local panel of experts, which included their Head Teacher and local social entrepreneurs. The group with the best idea was chosen to represent the school and then the documentary follows the highs and lows of each group of young people as they run their social enterprise.
The documentary concludes with the group travelling to London to have their ideas reviewed by a prominent panel of social entrepreneurs. The judging panel consisted of Nigel Kershaw Chief Executive of the Big Issue, Penny Newman Managing Director of Cafe Direct, Eric Samuels of Community Foods Enterprise and Andy Thornton founder of the Giving Nation Challenge.
The documentary was made by the Community Channel and was screened by them on their channel starting 11th June 2007. All three episodes of the documentary can also be seen on this website.
Giving Nation hope that this TV documentary will encourage schools across England to enter the TV documentary and students are very much encouraged to use it to lobby their schools to enter the Giving Nation Challenge. Teachers might also want to use the documentary as a teaching aide in Citizenship lessons.