Prep for w/c 28th Sept

This prep will be set on Tuesday 29th. Complete Activity 8 (questions 1-5), p.139 for Thursday. It is on the topic of Location.

Also, have a look at the Regional Development Agencies link below and look for anything interesting.

Choosing where to set up the business

Advice from Business Link:

http://www.businesslink.gov.uk/bdotg/action/layer?topicId=1073859128

Regional Development Agencies

http://www.englandsrdas.com/

Risking it all - Channel 4 business programme

Childhood sweethearts James and Kate Cotty were married last year, after a decade together. The couple plan to make their fortune by opening a shop in Lyndhurst, Hampshire, selling design-led gift items: everything from furniture to artwork to jewellery.
Video Link: http://www.channel4.com/programmes/risking-it-all/episode-guide/series-2/episode-4

Starting up a business

Things to think about before starting up:
http://www.businesslink.gov.uk/bdotg/action/detail?type=RESOURCES&itemId=1075216019

Characteristics of an entrepreneur: http://www.businessstudiesonline.co.uk/live/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=49&Itemid=48

Social enterprises

The main characteristic is:
Social Aims: They have explicit social aims such as job creation, training or the provision of local services. They have ethical values including a commitment to local capacity building, and they are accountable to their members and the wider community for their social environmental and economic impact.

The government defines social enterprises as businesses with primarily social objectives whose surpluses are principally reinvested for that purpose in the business or in the community, rather than being driven by the need to maximise profit for shareholders and owners.

Some well known social enterprises include:
John Lewis,
Welsh Water,
Cafédirect,
The Eden Project,
Divine Chocolate http://www.divinechocolate.com/default.aspx,
The Big Issue,
the Co-operative Group,
Duchy Originals - http://www.duchyoriginals.com/,
the London Symphony Orchestra and
Jamie Oliver's Restaurant - 15 http://www.fifteen.net/Pages/default.aspx.

Prep for w/c 14th Sept

Produce a KEY TERMS document using word and a table and type up the key terms on page 112 and the relevant ones from p.122

Do some research on some other Social Enterprises and produce a poster about to go up in the class - which outlines what the company does and how it contributes to the betterment of society.

Prep for w/c 7th Sept

Why do you want to study business studies? To be handed in Thursday 10th

Read p.104-108 and the Exam questions p.110,111 for Sat 12th