Task
Project ideas/prompts/outlines
Your social enterprise should be broadly focused on education. For guidance, your business plan might describe one of these kinds of products or services:
- Homework clubs/tutoring
- English language schemes / conversation clubs
- CV and careers guidance
- Children’s literacy schemes
- Children’s numeracy schemes
- Home schooling advice and help (including consultancy), including Early Years Foundation Stage awareness for parents
- Online friendship clubs for children and/or adults
- Raising awareness of local educational services
- Digital literacy schemes
- Storytelling, spoken word, and other creative schemes for literacy
- Emotional intelligence and mindset-oriented projects for children
- Projects that help students apply to university
- Community learning hubs
- Schemes that promote cross-cultural working and dialogue and/or tackle racism
- Reducing educational poverty
- Educating others in community activism and social enterprise
- Schemes to that raise awareness of LGBTQi+ issues
- Projects within UEL that enable other learners to build networks via mentoring or other peer-to-peer schemes
- Communities or practice, or educational networks
- Projects that raise awareness of disability rights
- Physical education schemes
- Reading groups
- Adult literacy projects
- Adult numeracy projects
Generally speaking, the project should:
- Address a social need
- Have a “unique selling point”, perhaps in the form of helping a previously unserved community, or helping people in a new and unexpected way.
- Have a strong educational theme to it
- Align, where possible/appropriate, with the Early Years Foundation Stage, SEN framework, National Curriculum, or any other part of Government legislation.
- Have a clear business plan, outlining the roles each team member would play
Business Case (Component 1 - 2000 words)
The Project (600 words approx)
Title and Rationale including:
- The nature of the project
- The issue or opportunity you aim to address in relation to the local community
- The beneficiaries
The History (600 words approx)
What is the current situation?
- Evidence based reflections on the root cause of the issue/problem
- Evidence of research to support the proposal (this includes both academic references and local data)
Limitations (200 words approx)
What could prevent the success of the social enterprise?
Approach (300 words approx)
- Outline what is needed to set up the social enterprise (Use the Business Canvas Model)
- Describe the channels you will use to reach your beneficiaries
Benefits (300 words approx.)
Outline what your social enterprise will bring to the community