ByEntrepreneurs Caroline Gardner and Joan Ellison set up social enterprise We Make Good back in 2018, selling products made by people from marginalised backgrounds. Here, Joan speaks to Sarah Finnan about how a social enterprise business works and just how fulfilling it can be.We are a regular trading business, but one that has a social goal; ours is the creation of job opportunities for those from disadvantaged backgrounds.
We have always considered We Make Good to be a movement; something that goes beyond our shop and products that works towards a fairer, more equal society.Cairde was one of the first social enterprises with whom we discussed our project idea. They were launching their manufacturing social enterprise with ex-offenders and understood the challenges that they would face getting their products to market.