Get on board supply chain game

YORKSHIRE businesses are being urged to get involved with a creative and educational business game.

Business on the Move has been developed by Wakefield-based social enterprise, The Very Enterprising Community Interest Company, and aims to inspire the next generation of entrepreneurs in schools.

The game celebrates the wide diversity of businesses that make up the UK supply chain.

Tesco, Marks & Spencer, DHL, Norbert Dentressangle and the Royal Bank of Scotland are among the sponsors and now, there are only five, out of the original 54, places left to fill by the end of this month.

The sponsor opportunities left are for businesses at the end of the supply chain, such as retailers or restaurants and the Very Enterprising Community Interest Company, run by former teachers, Andy Page and Pat Smedley, want Yorkshire businesses to be involved.

Mr Page said: “We want to excite children about business and this is a great way to do that. We are a Yorkshire based social enterprise and so it would be great to have businesses from this region on board.

“We are using business as a way of getting kids interested and motivated and it would be really good to have support from a Yorkshire company.”

Mr Page said the game offers a four-way CSR dividend – education, concern for the environment, community engagement and a partnership with the social enterprise.

Players run a business moving different products from China to their UK customers by land, air and sea as quickly and as profitably as they can.
Children also have to ensure they are minimising their carbon footprint.

At the end of the game, the children will study each sponsor and learn about the business.

Mr Page said: “We want to collaborate the supply chain. Businesses are small, large, local and national and we want the children to be able to understand these businesses.”

The organisation predicts that 15,000 young people will play the board game within 12 months.

Email info@businessonthemove.org

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