Weekly Programme Breakdown & Resources
Here’s everything you need to navigate the 6-week programme successfully. Each week focuses on a specific aspect of developing your social enterprise idea, with resources, Lunch & Learn sessions, and optional drop-ins to support your journey.
Welcome to Enactus Spark!
Enactus Spark is designed to equip you with the skills, tools, and support to develop a social enterprise that creates real-world impact. Over the next six weeks, you’ll follow a structured approach based on Design Thinking, moving through five key stages:
Empathise
Explore the root causes of social and environmental challenges.
Define
Clearly identify a problem worth solving.
Ideate
Brainstorm innovative solutions.
Protoype
Plan your project and develop your business model.
Each Monday, after the Lunch & Learn session, the resources for that week will be made live, including worksheets, toolkits, and key tasks to keep you on track. Let’s get started!
Test & Refine
Plan for success and submit your pitch for the Ignite Competition
Week 1: Inspire Action
Focus: Getting started, exploring your passions, and defining areas for impact.
What You’ll Do: You’ll be introduced to Enactus Spark, the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and how social enterprises create change. Through reflection and real-world case studies, you’ll start to think about what issues matter to you.
Outcome: By the end of the week, you’ll have identified a problem in your community and started thinking about ways to address it.
Week 2: Exploring the Needs
Focus: Understanding the root causes of social and environmental challenges.
What You’ll Do: You’ll map out your chosen problem, conduct a needs assessment, and begin researching who is affected and why. This stage helps you ensure your project is solving the right issue, not just a symptom of a deeper problem.
Outcome: A well-defined problem statement and an initial understanding of the needs of the people affected by your chosen issue.
Week 3: Solving Problems
Focus: Brainstorming and developing innovative solutions to your problem.
What You’ll Do: Learn ideation techniques, explore different solutions, and assess their feasibility and impact. You’ll refine your ideas into clear intervention plans that can be developed into a social enterprise.
Outcome: A shortlist of potential solutions and a deeper understanding of what makes a strong, impactful idea.
Week 4: Ideas into Action
Focus: Structuring your idea into a project or business model.
What You’ll Do: Learn the basics of project planning, business modelling, and sustainability, and begin building your lean business canvas. You’ll also have the opportunity to receive feedback from industry experts in a coaching session with Amazon.
Outcome: A clear business/project model, including key stakeholders, value proposition, and revenue or funding streams.
Week 5: Demonstrating Success
Focus: Measuring your impact and refining your project.
What You’ll Do: Learn how to track and measure success, set key performance indicators (KPIs), and develop an impact measurement plan to show the difference your idea will make.
Outcome: A set of impact metrics and a framework to track and showcase your project's success.
Week 6: Communicating Your Project
Focus: Bringing everything together and preparing for the final pitch.
What You’ll Do: Learn how to communicate your idea effectively, build a compelling pitch deck, and practice public speaking.
Outcome: A fully developed pitch, ready to submit for the competition, with a chance to be selected as one of the top 6 finalists to pitch live at ExCeL London!