Today is Social Enterprise Day As BrightKidz is a social enterprise we should really have marked today in some way. Last year children from a local school came to visit us for Social Enterprise Day, tried on lots of products and learned a bit about what a social enterprise is (and that business doesn't have to be just about making money). This year we're so busy packing orders that we had to give it a miss!

I went over to Gretton Homes near Corby this morning to pick up some zip clips which had been assembled by some of the residents. It's a care home for people with Prader-Willi Syndrome - an old house in a gorgeous setting, especially beautiful looking across their garden on a crisp autumn morning like today.

I heard about them a year ago on the radio as they put out an appeal to local businesses to give them paid work to occupy the residents, eg assembling jobs. I thought it was a brilliant idea so now we've set up paying them to put together our zip clips and some reflectors...... which is actually one example of what social enterprise is about.