Social enterprise has six defining features:

• Having a social purpose or purposes.
• Achieving the social purpose by, at least in part, engaging in trade in the marketplace.
• Not distribution of profits to individuals.
• Holding assets and wealth in trust for community benefit.
• Democratically involving members of its constituency in the governance of the organization.
• Being independent organizations accountable to a defined constituency and to the wider community

The birdsong model involves two (2) incorporated commercial entities operating as social enterprises

• bEnt - Environmental Service
• bAGI - Agriculture