It's National Nut Day on 22nd October, an annual celebration of all things nutty!

Farmer-owned nut company Liberation is celebrating the power that women and men in nut producer communities have through Fairtrade.

Check out the films and blogs on their website.

Trading Visions offers a free Powerpoint presentation for teachers focusing on business studies, enterprise or social enterprise. It showcases nut company Liberation as an example of a successful social enterprise.

Download Liberation as social enterprise Powerpoint presentation.

It's Social Enterprise Day today, a celebration of how business can be used to achieve social objectives.

Trading Visions has two social enterprise teaching resources for schools: Powerpoint presentations showcasing two Fairtrade companies that put farmers at the heart of their business model.

Download Liberation Nuts social enterprise presentation

Download Divine Chocolate social enterprise presentation

It's Social Enterprise Day today and we've produced a new Powerpoint presentation for teachers.

The presentation showcases social enterprise Liberation, a Fairtrade nut company owned by the farmers who grow and gather the nuts.

Download Liberation social enterprise presentation

“Cooperative enterprises help build a better world.” That’s the slogan for the UN International Year of Cooperatives 2012, which was launched just a few weeks ago, and it’s a salient reminder that there are alternative ways to ‘do business’ in a world ravaged by economic crisis, climate change and undemocratic leadership.

Cooperatives are business enterprises owned and controlled by the very members they serve, able to balance the pursuit of profit and shareholder value with the needs and interests of their members and their communities. In assigning 2012 as International Year of Cooperatives, the UN has recognised the impact that cooperatives are having in poverty reduction, employment generation, sustainable development and social integration.

The slogan above could just as well apply to social enterprises. Today is Social Enterprise Day. A day of celebration and profile-raising for organisations that are harnessing the power of business to create a fairer world.

The UK is recognised as a world leader in social enterprises with 62,000 UK based-social enterprises contributing over £24 billion to the economy and employing 800,000 people, while simultaneously addressing the real needs of communities.

If you've walked past an Oxfam shop this Fairtrade Fortnight you might have noticed a rather fetching poster in the window showcasing the fact that they sell various "Fairtrade masterpieces".

The poster features products from Liberation Nuts, Traidcraft, Tropical Wholefoods, Divine Chocolate and Cafédirect - and Oxfam have also produced a little recipe leaflet to use with them.

To mark Social Enterprise Day this Thursday we've asked Sophi Tranchell, Divine Chocolate's MD, to set a challenge for young people who are thinking about careers in business. Sophi asks 'can good business be good business?' in an interview on YouTube.