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Cash That Cares

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This programme looks at the inspiring people who've come up with ideas that make a difference to the community around them.

Tim Campbell, winner of the first series of BBC's The Apprentice and founder of a social enterprise for young people called Bright Ideas Trust, introduces eight examples of businesses with a social conscience - and a profit as well.

Tim Campbell

Magic Breakfast
Founder Carmel McConnell is outraged that there is a need for her company, Magic Breakfast. It provides free healthy breakfasts in primary schools across the UK. She says sadly there are 100,000 children who go to school hungry and Magic Breakfast provides them with the fuel that gets their day off to a good start and enable them to learn more.

Fyndoune College Water Scheme
You don't have to have a business degree to start up a social enterprise. A geography lesson will do. That's what happened when students at Fyndoune Community College in Co. Durham came up with the idea of selling water at school to raise money to sink a well in a village in Ghana. Their profits enabled them to realise their project abroad.

Cafedirect
It is now one of the big names in the Fairtrade sector and reinvests more than 60% of its profits in coffee and tea growers in 12 countries. But Cafedirect once started out as a small idea that would enable consumers in rich countries and producers in developing countries both to gain from a fairer trading structure.

Fifteen changed Lloyd's life

Continuous Entertainment
The founders of Continuous Entertainment didn't know what a social enterprise was until they started doing their business plan for music studio. And it fitted perfectly with their idea to provide a studio for budding local artists and plough the profit back into their business.

Blue Ventures
This idea grew from two people's passion for the marine environment. It's now a social enterprise which offers eco-holidays in places like Madagascar, and the profits from the holidays goes into protecting coastal marine environments. This environmental work also brings huge benefits to local communities.

Fifteen
The restaurant project to help disadvantaged young people which was started by Jamie Oliver has become well known. This film looks at how it helped Lloyd Hayes. It helped him enjoy work, it built his self confidence and like others involved in the project, it gave him respect and a start in life.

Safia Minney of People Tree

We Are What We Do
This campaign to reduce our dependence on plastic bags was taken up by shops and companies with gusto because the statistics are frightening. In the UK each of us uses 200 plastic bags a year, and a plastic bag takes 500 years to decay. The campaign demonstrated that we can and need to take easy steps to protect the planet.

People Tree
Safa Minney has been working tirelessly for many years to bring ethical clothing into the mainstream. And in the past two years the clothes produced by People Tree have captured the public imagination. The company's purpose is to help create livelihoods for people living in developing countries by encouraging them to revive traditional skills.

Last Updated ( Wednesday, 28 November 2007 )

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