Primary 6/7 children from Victoria PS took part in the Falkirk Social Enterprise Dragon’s Den event in November 2023. They pitched their social enterprise idea so well, that they won seed funding of £100 from the dragons. They wrote this blog post to tell everyone about their achievement.
We used the seed funding to organise an event in December for parents, carers and pupils in our school. This took place at Christmas time, and we made and sold gingerbread men and candy cane gifts. We even had edible reindeer with twiglet antlers to give away free! Our food was so popular that we raised around £400. After the Christmas event we went around all classes to find out how to make our next event better. Some children told us to have a bigger choice of treats and to have more things that were free.
We decided to donate the money we made from these events to a charity called Victim Support Scotland (VSS). We chose this charity because our school has been vandalised and VSS help anyone who has been affected by crime.
We took the advice of our fellow pupils then worked with primary 7M to organise more activities for our next event at Easter. We made Easter themed treats this time including cookie s’mores. We made sure that we had Halal food available and organised boxes so that those who were fasting for Ramadan would enjoy theirs at the right time. We sold hot chocolate, tea, coffee and cold drinks. Lots of our customers wanted water to drink and we had to keep going to get more to meet this demand. This was only one of the problems we had to solve, Another was not getting too stressed when long queues formed. At this event we also held a raffle, and sold second hand books.
Our final event will take place on the second last day of term. We will make s’mores and cocoa for primary 7 parents and carers and primary 5, 6 and 7 pupils.
What have we learned from doing this social enterprise work?
- Counting and using money
- Responsibility
- Kindness
- Confidence in speaking to people
- Resilience (we learned from our mistakes to make the events get better each time)
- Problem-solving
How do we feel about getting a social enterprise award?
- We feel good.
- We feel proud that we have a Social Enterprise Award plaque in our school reception.
- We loved using some of our earnings to treat our class to a Dominos pizza.
We would love to do more social enterprise next year when we are in primary 7. Thank you for reading this blog post about our award.
