- All
- Beneficiary Group
- Eldery
- Homeless People
- Long term unemployed
- Mental Health and Wellbeing
- NEETS (Not in education, employment or training)
- People in poverty
- People suffering from food insecurity
- Recovering Addicts
- Refugees
- School Children (Under 16)
- Vulnerable Adults
- Vulnerable women or girls
- Youth (16-25)
- Global Goals
- 01 – No poverty
- 02 – Zero Hunger
- 03 – Good Health & Wellbeing
- 04 – Quality Education
- 05 – Gender Equality
- 06 – Clean water and sanitation
- 07 – Affordable and clean energy
- 08 – Decent work and economic growth
- 09 – Industry, innovation and infrastructure
- 10 – Reduced inequalities
- 11 – Sustainable cities and communities
- 12 – Responsible consumption and production
- 13 – Climate Action
- 14 – Life below water
- 15 – Life on land
- 17 – Partnership for the goals
- Location
- Bangladesh
- Ghana
- India
- Kenya
- Malawi
- Nigeria
- Pakistan
- Philippines
- Sri Lanka
- Uganda
- UK
- Project Stage
- Ideation
- Impact
- Implementation
- Scaling Projects
- Project Type
- Agriculture
- Business Enterprise
- Clean Energy
- Consultancy
- Education
- Employability
- Energy
- Environmental
- Financial literacy
- Food Waste
- Gender Equality
- Health & Wellbeing
- Sanitation
- Sustainable clothing
- Technology
- Water
Charge
University of Southampton
Charge operates in the Char region of Bangladesh. Here people live on Chars, river islands cut off from the mainland. 600,000 people live in this dynamic environment in northern Bangladesh, where bank erosion and annual flood inundation are very common occurrences, which makes the implementation of static electricity near to impossible. In order to obtain light, people are forced to use kerosene, a dangerous fuel. Children studying by this fuel can inhale the equivalent of 40 cigarettes a night, posing major health risks to the people of this region. This harmful fuel is also the cause of 23% of infant burns and thousands of house fires every year.
Charge is a solution.
Charge attaches solar panels to the roofs of boats. During the day the solar panels charge a capacitor which in turn charges portable batteries. The batteries are then rented out to members of the public, along with a light bulb. The battery keeps the bulb lit for 6 hours, it is then returned in the morning ready to be recharged during the day.
The project is in collaboration with the countries biggest NGO, Gana Unnayan Kendra, who provide the boats and the workers to sell the product. The Dakka institute of Technology in Bangladesh also helped develop the technology used by the project.
What Global Goals are we working towards?
1 – No Poverty
3 – Good Health and Wellbeing
4 – Quality Education
7 – Affordable and Clean Energy
How can you help us?
We are looking for advice on how to attain corporate sponsorship.
Altr.d
University of Exeter
Altr.d clothing is a brand reinventing re-wearing by taking preloved clothes and upcycling them to create new designs. Our goal is to combat the negative environmental effects of the clothing industry by promoting sustainable shopping (and swapping!) habits and creating products that people will love.
This year we have been developing our painting techniques, trying new ideas and refining our process. We have created designs for t-shirts that we are hoping to begin selling online in September. Our clothes swap, which was hosted at the University of Exeter’s Streatham campus, helped to raise awareness with students. Excess clothing from this event has allowed us to prototype our favourite designs.
Going forward we are hoping to run a Depop store selling our upcycled pieces and occasional pop-ups during the term. We are looking to collaborate with local independent stores for other future events such as clothes swaps. Ultimately, we will train up beneficiaries so that they can alter clothes too.
What Global Goals are we working towards?
11 – Sustainable Cities and Communities
12 – Responsible Consumption and Production
14 – Life Below Water
15 – Life on Land
How can you help us?
We are currently testing out longwearing, sustainable and ethical paints for fabrics and would love some expertise in this area. As well as this we need help getting our fashion brand off the ground. We think it’s important to make sustainability effortless for the consumer and appeal to as many people as possible, therefore expertise in fashion or advertising may be required.
The Edinburgh Candle Co
University of Edinburgh
A socially and environmentally conscious enterprise that provides a platform for long-term unemployed women to gain an income and transferable skills through the making of soy-wax candles.
What Global Goals are we working towards?
1 – No Poverty
8 – Decent Work and Economic Growth
How can you help us?
This project is looking to partner with a new local organisation to reach more beneficiaries that are committed and are in need of the project. Therefore, the project is looking for support with network research.
BASE
Durham University
Partnering with three colleges in Bishop Auckland, BASE supports students to develop journalism skills, networks and corporate funding; enabling the colleges to create a student-run digital newspaper. This provides an opportunity for students to develop their key skills and for Bishop Auckland to grow and be more integrated as a community.
What Global Goals are we working towards?
4 – Quality Education
8 – Decent Work and Economic Growth
11 – Sustainable Cities and Communities
How can you help us?
We are hoping to expand to a published and printed newspaper and we would need support in this area.
Gaia & Dementer
University of York
We want to host a Cook-Off Show (weekly on the long-term) using the edible surplus that we collect from farmers. Our primary customer base will be University of York students. We will invite local Chefs to ‘compete’ with student Chefs, and only by using the surplus of the week as ingredients. Customers will also get to taste the final dishes. This show is meant to be educational and fun; letting more people know that surplus and wonky crops are equally edible and could be cooked in a creative way too. Customers will also get the chance to purchase the surplus of the week. The Cook-Off will be broadcasted on an existing platform such as Facebook, YouTube, or TikTok to give it more visibility. We want to implement our first idea as soon as the Academic year starts.
For those non-edible surpluses, we want to transform them into cleaning products. We are planning on fermenting vegetables and fruit peels, then turning them into eco-friendly and natural all-surface cleaners, detergent, and potentially more products (known as enzyme cleaners). Fermenting will require around three months, which means we can only start selling these enzyme cleaner products after January. As a complementary mission to this project, we would like to show farmers a very efficient way of composting their food waste: the Bokashi method.
What Global Goals are we working towards?
3 – Good Health and Wellbeing
12 – Responsible Production and Consumption
13 – Climate Action
15 – Life on Land
How can you help us?
We are designing our events and researching about fermentation methods. Although we are confident about our product, we are unsure on how to effectively attract the right customers, measure impact (ultimately is to reduce farmland waste, but we also want to educate the public about the value of food), and scale up our business in the long-run.
BioSmart
University of Exeter
The BioSmart Initiative is a project that revolves around a furnace designed by students at the University of Exeter that can burn organic agricultural waste under pyrolysis to produce BioChar. The initiative has been running for four years and currently operates in Kadzinuni, Kenya alongside our partner charity, Friends of Kadzinuni. The original needs assessment of Kadzinuni showed that women and children were walking for up to three hours a day to collect charcoal from a distant market or alternatively cut down trees for fuelwood. By supplying a furnace to the local computer, the village gains a local source of fuel that offers multiple uses in the long-term.
BioSmart aims to positively impact the local community in multiple aspects. Economically, we supply employment and empowerment to these women who will be able to gain an income by collecting and burning organic matter. In an environmental aspect, the BioChar can be applied as a soil amendment or can create BioChar briquettes. The soil amendment can help reduce deforestation and increase the local farmer’s crop yields. Once the furnaces are installed, the BioSmart initiative exclusively employs women to run the company, selling on BioChar to farmers and briquettes to families in fuel poverty. We are also looking to expand from furnaces to cookstoves to create biochar and utilise waste heat energy, an ‘earn-while-you-burn’ model.
The project currently has 2 furnaces in use where biochar briquettes are being created and sold at the local market and used in soil amendment tests in Kadzinuni. We also have sent out a wisdom stove for them to try and instructions for our own cookstove so they can build one.
We plan to send out a team this August to ensure the women have business skills needed to sell their briquettes and aid with cookstove manufacturing.
What Global Goals are we working towards?
7 – Affordable and Clean Energy
8 – Decent Work and Economic Growth
10 – Reduced Inequalities
11 – Sustainable Cities and Communities
How can you help us?
Implementing our cookstove design and creating a solid business plan which involves the briquettes and cookstoves. We are also looking at expansion out to Pakistan and might need support though the right steps we must take in order for Pakistan to be successful.
Budget Bites
University of East Anglia
Food poverty happens to be a major issue in Norwich. We have one of the highest rates of child poverty in the country. Many children live in income deprived households where parents are not able to provide nutritious meals for their children. It is the noble work of voluntary soup kitchens that enable them to get their daily meals. Our pay as you feel café will work hand in hand with the existing soup kitchens to make sure that more people will have access to food daily.
What Global Goals are we working towards?
1 – No Poverty
2 – Zero Hunger
How can you help us?
We currently have a partnership between Norwich FoodHub and local retailers to collect their food surplus. We currently need support on how to network with local farmers who could provide us with additional food surplus and also use their expertise on growing sustainable ingredients. In addition to this, we would like support on successfully conduct a needs assessment. We would like support on how to increase our project’s public awareness in order to reach out to more potential beneficiaries.
Harvest
University of Edinburgh
Harvest is a social enterprise project aimed at targeting post-harvest losses (PHL) in Malawi by providing local farmers with access to simple and effective storage solutions for their crop – hermetic storage bags. By increasing the access to new storage technologies, which will improve the farmers’ yield greatly, we also hope to improve the lives of local communities, as they are highly dependent on the agricultural industry. We hope to achieve a sustainable change by raising awareness of effective storage solutions through higher accessibility and educational workshops.
What Global Goals are we working towards?
1 – No Poverty
2 – Zero Hunger
11 – Sustainable Cities and Communities
How can you help us?
Harvest is currently building a prototype of the hermetic storage bag and is looking for support with manufacturing and design.
The Arran Project
Glasgow Caledonian University
Off the west coast of Scotland lies the isle of Arran hosting a population of less than 5000 that live mostly cut off from the mainland. Many working-age people leave the island to pursue employment or higher education leaving children and the elderly as the major percentage of the community. This mass emigration from the island allows issues in the community to sprout up and fester unchecked. We, however, refuse to accept this. Taking root in Arran High School, our project has us serving as Business Advisors to a group of high school students as they start their own Enactus team to tackle issues found in their community. It is our firm belief that if we apply the Enactus model to the needs identified on the island that this project will not only survive, but will thrive alongside the community on Arran.
What Global Goals are we working towards?
3 – Good Health and Well-Being
10 – Reduced Inequalities
How can you help us?
We are currently looking for support and guidance with making this project sustainable. As it stands, once the Arran High School Enactus members graduate they take their knowledge of projects with them. This means that we have to start from scratch every year.
Revive
University of Sussex
Revive is a project dedicated to improving access to education in the developing world. We believe that everyone should have access to free education and one of the ways to accomplish this vision is to provide open-source education through laptops. We take old laptops from individuals, sanitize them and upload educational software. These laptops are then given to our project partner, Labdoo, who coordinate the sending out through people who will already be travelling to these places with the purpose of limiting carbon emissions.
What Global Goals are we working towards?
4 – Quality Education
10 – Reduced Inequalities
How can you help us?
We are currently establishing ourselves as a project and we are looking for technical support.
Baala
University of Warwick
Project Baala is an initiative under Enactus Warwick which strives to help girls in Africa and Pakistan break free from the restrictions that a lack of access to sanitation imposes on them so that they too, can embrace the education that every child deserves. Our project aims to not only provide these girls with a unique and sustainable hygiene product which will last them up to two years but also carry out workshops in rural villages to educate them on menstruation and the importance of sanitation.
What Global Goals are we working towards?
3 – Good Health and Wellbeing
4 – Quality Education
6 – Clean Water and Sanitation
13 – Climate Action
How can you help us?
We are planning to implement factories and be sustainable in our countries and will need help with the steps to follow in order to achieve this goal.
Jikoventures
Imperial College London
Since its launch, Jikoventures has worked with local entrepreneur in Kenya to commercialize stoves that are more fuel-efficient and produce less harmful fume for local residents in numerous villages. While occasional courses on bookkeeping and personal finance workshops have been conducted, we now look to promote more eco-friendly fuel called briquettes and optimise the stove’s design accordingly, while lowering the cost and hopefully making it accessible to more locals.
What Global Goals are we working towards?
3 – Good Health and Wellbeing
7 – Affordable and Clean Energy
17 – Partnership for the Goals
How can you help us?
Business strategy and marketing, partnership in terms of manufacturing and development.
Ecofeast
University of Kent
EcoFeast is a student-led project that aims to empower young people, tackle rising food waste levels and reduce elderly isolation through the passion of food. The aim of EcoFeast is to essentially reduce food waste and isolation among the retirees by teaching students how to cook using surplus ingredients from markets.
What Global Goals are we working for?
3 – Good Health and Wellbeing
12 – Responsible Consumption and Production
How can you help us?
We are currently expanding the number of beneficiaries we are working with and are looking for support with expanding and further developing our project.
BrightHER
University of Glasgow
BrightHER was created in September 2017 and is working to teach beneficiaries how to make soy wax candles in sessions run in partnership with Glasgow Women’s Aid (and soon other partner charities). The beneficiaries will be taught basic business skills, such as sales, finance and marketing by students, increasing their employability. Our team aims to build our beneficiary’s self-confidence and broaden their social circles. We hope that meaningful participation in our workshops, and the experience of creating an impressive physical product will inspire a sense of joy and pride, whilst working with other women will allow them to make friends, establish a support network, and build resilience. We will sell the candles produced so that our workshops continue to be sustainable and to provide the women with a source of income.
What Global Goals are we working towards?
3 – Good Health and Wellbeing
5 – Gender Equality
How can you help us?
Support with impact measurement and programmes which help people into work.
Mission’s Kitchen
Glasgow Caledonian University
Missions Kitchen is a project-based at the Lodging House Mission in Glasgow which is a Homeless shelter. We work with beneficiaries from the Homeless shelter to teach them how to make soup, which is then sold on our university campus and then all funds raised from the soup sales go back into the Lodging House Mission to put on extra workshops and classes to further help develop the beneficiaries soft skills and confidence. In addition, any excess food waste from the project is collected and recycled.
What Global Goals are we working towards?
3 – Good Health and Wellbeing
10 – Reduced Inequalities
12 – Responsible Production and Consumption
How can you help us?
We are currently looking to expand our project. We would like to increase our sales and start doing business to business sales of the soup. We would like some help to identify businesses in the Glasgow area that would be willing to work with us and possibly provide a space where we could sell our soup. Furthermore some guidance on what qualifications/ paper work that would be needed to help this vision come in to fruition would be very helpful.
Auricle
Teesside University
This project was formed to tackle and raise awareness of mental health. We achieved by creating listening sessions where anyone who needs someone to talk about their struggles would come and we provided a listening ear for them and support them by being there to listen. From these sessions, we aimed to empower our beneficiaries to create their very own listening sessions which we hope would continue to grow exponentially.
What Global Goals are we working towards?
3 – Good Health and Wellbeing
10 – Reduced Inequalities
How can you help us?
We need support in identifying how we can make this project more sustainable, generate revenue and empower beneficiaries effectively
Pink Speak
Durham University
Pink Speak is based in rural Hyderabad, India, which supports female enterprise. The project works by employing and training local mothers to make free underwear for nearby schoolgirls. The mothers then visit the girls to distribute the underwear and to provide talks on sanitary education. The mothers are empowered by learning new skills and gaining professional development and the girls are provided with invaluable education, positive female role models, and clean underwear.
What Global Goals are we working towards?
3 – Good Health and Wellbeing
4 – Quality Education
5 – Gender Equality
How can you help us?
We are currently evolving the project in Mumbai.
We will need good communication with teams in Mumbai, enthusiasm to adapt marketing material and contextual awareness of the project in India.
We need support making the project efficient and sustainable – we will be using Wamika (a local, Indian businesswoman) as a resource for this.
Food 4 Future
Northumbria University
Working with our local charity the Comfrey Project, we are helping to educate refugees on responsible consumption and production of food. Coming from a range of different backgrounds, the beneficiaries have different opinions and knowledge on recycling and the impact of importing goods. Through weekly workshops, we are educating the beneficiaries on how to recycle, the benefit of buying and eating local food and the negative impacts of importing. Providing them all with equal local knowledge and a healthier lifestyle.
What Global Goals are we working towards?
3 – Good Health and Wellbeing
10 – Reduced Inequalities
11 – Sustainable Cities and Communities
12 – Responsible Consumption and Production
How can you help us?
We are currently educating our refugees on sustainable living around food purchasing and consumption but need support in expanding the project to put these methods into practice with locals.
Retrograde
University of Southampton
This local project is currently in the ideation phase with initial implementation at a pilot school intended to take place in September 2019.
Retrograde was founded with the purpose of creating networks between school students and university students. The aim is to provide school students with opportunities they would not otherwise be exposed to, working on local and international business projects, in order to gain the skills and confidence needed to operate in a professional environment.
This project will mimic the set up of the Enactus Southampton society. School students will be organised into teams, for example, marketing, depending on their specific interests. These teams will be tasked with developing a social enterprise project, starting from its conceptual phase and hopefully progressing through to delivery.
This project will initially target sixth form students from the ages of 16-18, as this demographic is the one that will most benefit the CV building experiences and close interactions with universities.
This opportunity will be presented to year 12 students in an assembly in September 2019 at our selected pilot school. It will be available for all year 12 students to apply for. For logistical reasons, the initial pilot the project will be composed of a mix of 10 – 20 selected students, who will form 1-2 teams. After the university academic year starts in October a new team of students will be assembled to partake in this project, allowing the oversight and interaction with a growing number of school students. By Christmas 2019 it is hoped that all year 12 students who applied to join will be allocated a place.
What Global Goals are we working towards?
4 – Quality Education
5 – Gender Equality
17 – Partnership for the Goals
How can you help us?
Support with developing the program to be used in schools would be welcomed
Sankofa
University of Nottingham
We tackle open defecation, unsustainable cooking/farming and poor sanitation and hygiene in New Edubiase, Ghana. We aim to empower the local community and impacting their standard of living.
We aim to:
1. Improve the livelihoods of local farmers by providing them with affordable and nutrient-rich fertiliser to increase their crop yield and income.
2. Inform the local communities on the importance of water, hygiene and sanitation practices in the most effective way.
3. Empower the local community, particularly females who face several safety risks through open defecation and unsafe cooking
What Global Goals are we working towards?
3 – Good Health and Wellbeing
6 – Clean Water and Sanitation
11 – Sustainable Cities and Communities
How can you help us?
We are looking for support in expanding our production of briquettes in Ghana.
Suit Up
London Schools of Economics
Inspired by our regular sightings of homelessness in London, we decided to utilize our existing knowledge and skills to improve the severe situation. We aim to empower the homeless to re-enter the labor force and re-integrate into the society by transferring job-seeking skills, confidence building and providing support for job seeking.
We work with St Mungo’s (3rd largest charity in the UK) to provide skills sessions focused on personalized CV, confidence-building and employability skills. We provide potential job opportunities by supporting complementary organisations such as our partnership with Unseen Tours. We also provide attire for job interviews through our new partnership with Suited and Booted.
What Global Goals are we working towards?
1 – No Poverty
4 – Quality Education
10 – Reduced Inequalities
How can you help us?
We aim to venture into productisation of contents and products to ensure the long term sustainability of the venture. This is the key issue that we will focus on for the next year. We hope to employ some of the homeless in the process of productisation to give them valuable job experience. We are also in the early stages of developing a website that will contain the content and materials from our employability skills workshops. We further aim to assist partner organisations in resolving operational issues and devising marketing campaigns.
Family Connection
University of York
The project target audience is international families living on one of our colleges on campus. The project aims to provide information on financial services and management to mature students living on campus with families.
What Global Goals are we working towards?
1 – No Poverty
4 – Quality Education
10 – Reduced Inequalities
How can you help us?
We are currently exploring the type of help our beneficiaries are wanting. Our main concern is how to commercialise the project.
The Ugly Fruit Co
Durham University
The Ugly Fruit Group focuses on changing societal perceptions on fruit and vegetables that are considered ‘imperfect’ and ‘out of date’ when they are still perfectly good to consume. The project itself is very new and is working on ideas that need to be more thoroughly developed. It could potentially educate the local deprived communities of Durham that fruit and vegetables are good for your health and are cheaper to eat than fast food and microwave meals.
What Global Goals are we working towards?
3 – Good Health and Wellbeing
12 – Responsible Consumption and Production
How can you help us?
We would like to gain connections in the local community to further assess the needs and figure out where best our project will fit. This will also help to guide the project. We would like help with social media and public engagement as well as PR and advertising.
Ecosmile
Loughborough University
Ecosmile is a project dedicated to tackling the issue of dental neglect amongst youth. We plan to work closely with local schools and dentists in order to provide vital education on the importance of dental hygiene to children, whilst also providing dental supplies to those who cannot afford them.
Dental neglect is the persistent failure to meet a child’s basic oral health needs, likely to result in the serious impairment of a child’s oral or general health or development.
Our goal is to reduce this problem an area that is clearly in need of care. In a country where 25% of 5 year olds suffer from tooth decay, we aim to create healthier habits among children and parents to change the attitudes around dental hygiene for the better.
What Global Goals are we working towards?
1 – No Poverty
3 – Good Health and Wellbeing
4 – Quality Education
10 – Reduced Inequalities
How can you help us?
We are currently looking to build more relationships with local dentists and nurseries. Hence, we would mostly be looking for support with networks to build and maintain these relationships that are key to the success of our project.
We are also designing a prototype for a subscription box service of dental supplies to students and are looking for support with design and marketing.
JumpStart
Glasgow Caledonian University
The Jumpstart project works with young people in school from deprived areas from around Glasgow. This year we will be working with a group of students from Castlemilk, which has been ranked as the third most deprived area in Scotland. Our aim is to help the students build on their skills such as teamwork, leadership and problem solving through group work activities and innovation challenges. Additionally guiding them towards a positive destination after school. Eg. College. University or apprenticeships.
What Global Goals are we working towards?
4 – Quality Education
10 – Reduced Inequalities
How can you help us?
This year we want to make sure our lesson plans and structure are effective for the students and make a significant impact on the pupils and area. Some support with guest workshops from external businesses would benefit the students particularly the older pupils, on topics such as future opportunities and finances.
Sakhee
University of Kent
Project Sakhee is a project aimed to improve the lives of women in India who are bounded by the stigmatisation surrounding menstruation. This year our project is aiming to teach women in their local communities how to make their own reusable pads and sell them to others. Hopefully aiming to make them financially and economically independent as well as having access to clean and safe sanitary products.
What Global Goals are we working towards?
6 – Clean Water and Sanitation
8 – Decent Work and Economic Growth
10 – Reduced Inequalities
13 – Climate Action
How can you help us?
We are in need of finding a reliable NGO in India who can help us provide women with the tools they need to make the reusable pads and sell them within their communities. Last year we found it especially hard finding an NGO who would stay in regular contact and finding one early this year is one of our main aims to get the project off the ground.
Your Freedge
This project was first initiated to address the issue of food waste and food deprivation among the people of Teesside. A central community fridge was purchased where all the excess food provided by project partners would be stored and distributed. The project now wants to take the excess food Vegetables, meats and other commodities and use them to create nutritional soups and meals which will then be sold to the community. Our target beneficiaries are the less privileged, youth & the homeless. We aim to train our benefactors on how to create delicious nutritional dishes and how to sell them. With the intention that the profits will be used to support them and purchase future fridges to continue the fight against food waste.
What Global Goals are we working towards?
2 – Zero Hunger
12 – Responsible Consumption and Production
Future Brew
University of Southampton
This mission of Future Brew is to take bread waste from supermarkets and turn it into beer with the help of a brewery in close proximity to our university. The plan is to then sell this beer in pubs on campus and to work with our Student Union to create brand awareness among students, faculty and the administration. We will be collecting too much food waste to use in the brewing process so we aim to work with local breakfast clubs and other community organizations to help ensure that no one goes hungry.
What Global Goals are we working towards?
2 – No hunger
3 – Good Health and Well-being
11 – Sustainable Cities and Communities
12 – Responsible Consumption and Production
How can you help us?
We are looking to find somewhere close to campus to store the food waste we are collecting so if you have access to storage space, or a connection with a local organization with storage space, please let us know. We would also appreciate any guidance or recommendations on how to transport our beer and food waste.
Project Box
University of Huddersfield
Our mission is to provide continuous support to the Kirklees area to improve upon their environmental efforts; including, working with the University of Huddersfield to set up a more effective recycling system for students of the university.
While the project is very new and is still only in the concept faze, there has also been interest from the University of Huddersfield to integrate staff and societies into the project in hopes that the project will become self sustaining and grow in its impact. (Working with University students will also allow them experience in the volunteer sector).
What Global Goals are we working towards?
13 – Climate Action
How can you help us?
Support and guidance on project implementation- help us get this project up and running!
Linda
University of Edinburgh
The problem we are trying to address is the lack of awareness and accurate information on sexual and reproductive health among youth in Africa. Therefore, Linda aims to create awareness around sexual health-related issues by providing accurate and locally relevant information to young people in Africa through a confidential and private text messaging platform and school outreaches. The name Linda, in Kiswahili, means “Protect” related to the goal of protecting young people from early teenage pregnancies and other related sexual and reproductive health issues.
What Global Goals are we working towards?
3 – Good Health and Wellbeing
How can you help us?
Linda is currently building educational models and are looking for support with pregnancy / sexual and reproductive health information and guidance on how to spread such information efficiently and clearly
Fishing for Futures
University of Southampton
Fishing for Futures is a social enterprise currently situated in the country of Malawi. The enterprise involves implementing a fish farm within a school’s boundaries. As our slogan indicates, this enterprise aims to Empower people to Create their own Sustainable futures. Fishing for Futures aims to accomplish this by helping to increase children’s hands-on experience with agricultural practices, ensure a stable food supply all year round, and provide an extra source of income for the community.
What Global Goals are we working towards?
1 – No Poverty
4 – Quality Education
8 – Decent Work and Economic Growth
11 – Sustainable Cities and Communities
How can you help us?
We are currently planning to build a prototype for an aeration system and are looking for support with attaining resources and manufacturing. We are also currently looking to attain funding for the project, so are looking for help on creating successful funding applications.
Motion
University of Sheffield
We offer chair-based physical exercise sessions to care homes, nursing homes and lunch clubs to improve physical mobility, quality of life and reduce social isolation.
We train and recruit NEETS and university students as motivators and instructors to run these sessions and also have regular training sessions with members of the city council with vast experience to improve the quality of our sessions further. For each session, we aim to have one instructor to lead the exercises, and two motivators to assist and keep the energy and atmosphere going throughout the sessions. They also can help individuals if they are struggling, to ensure everyone is able to engage and take part.
We tailor our sessions to meet the needs of each individual home or lunch club so that our beneficiaries can gain the most out of them and so we can have the best impact on them. The exercises we use vary from strength and toning to group games. Previously relying on taxis to travel to and from sessions, we have recently started to become more environmentally friendly and have started using electric cars hired from our university. In the near future, we hope to stop using taxis all together and move to the electric cars completely.
What Global Goals are we working towards?
3 – Good Health and Wellbeing
How can you help us?
We are trying to scale motion to become a more recognised service and looking for support with the best ways to expand and grow sustainably
Remeducate
University of St Andrews
Remeducate aims to bridge the gap in medical supplies between those more and less affluent in the city of Kolkata. The problem is caused by a combination of the lack of general health education and an overreliance on medicine. We aim to bridge this gap by holding seminary sessions for the local population of Kolkata on health and hygiene and by holding a drive for unused medicines from affluent households.
What Global Goals are we working towards?
3 – Good Health and Wellbeing
6 – Clean Water and Sanitation
11 – Sustainable Cities and Communities
How can you help us?
We are currently looking for support with regards to communication, and course design.
Milan
University of Southampton
In its first year, Milan has focused on the goal of creating aquaponic cooperatives in rural communities around the world, attempting to tackle the problems of inefficient, unsustainable and weather dependent farming.
Aquaponics is a method of farming that combines aquaculture (the growing of fish) and hydroponics (the growing of plants without soil).
This project is currently undergoing implementation where we are partnered with Enactus DTU in New Delhi, where a large scale prototype system is being built on university grounds, which will be operated by a team from DTU. The initial cost of this system will be covered by Enactus Southampton, with repayment coming from a percentage of the monthly profits of the system. With these partners, we aim to expand the project into local communities.
This project will also take on commercial and local applications going forward. Small scale multi-purpose systems will be designed for a diverse range of commercial applications, both for individual consumers and commercial companies.
We will continue to develop partnerships with schools and other educational facilities to widen access and knowledge of aquaponics, within our own communities.
*Please note that this project was formerly known as Gaia.
What Global Goals are we working towards?
2 – Zero Hunger
11 – Sustainable Cities and Communities
13 – Climate Action
How can you help us?
For the development of new small scale aquaponics systems, support in designing and potential mass-manufacturing would be beneficial.
Altrua
University of Nottingham
Altrua focuses on transforming the lives of the elderly, aiming to tackle social isolation and loneliness by running Qi Gong sessions in care homes.
Between 10,000 and 20,000 elderly people in Nottinghamshire are affected by social isolation. The effects of this isolation being shortened life, increases disability, depression and sleeping disorders. Additionally, 1 in 4 people aged 65 and over aren’t meeting the minimum recommended activity levels.
To tackle this issue, Altrua are introducing 8 week long Qi Gong into care homes. Qi Gong is a holistic system of coordinated movements that involve slow, meditate dance like actions. The impact of these courses will be both physical benefits such as joint and muscle movement and bone density, as well as mental benefits of reducing stress and increasing the quality of life. The process of remembering sequences of movements can also be helpful to those who suffer from dementia.
What Global Goals are we working towards?
3 – Good Health and Wellbeing
How can you help us?
We are looking to build our network of care homes in Nottingham, any introductions would be welcome.
The Butterfly Effect
University of Salford
This project focuses on the mental health of sixth form students planning on transitioning to university. These 16-18 year olds will be supported by building academic and emotional resilience through regular sessions to help maintain well-being and good quality of life. The project aims to provide a local-scale hub for tackling mental health issues and other struggles identified by the beneficiaries throughout the project’s duration, in an open and safe environment. Activities and services will be tailored in an economically and socially sustainable fashion to cater to the needs of the beneficiaries. This coincides with goal 11 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDG): Sustainable Cities and Communities.
This project will act as a bridge for beneficiaries who may be struggling with mental health stability and feel overwhelmed by stress over the upcoming stage of their lives. It will address stress and encourage socialising to better the beneficiaries’ peace of mind. This is in accordance with goal 3 of the UNSDG: Good Health and Well-Being. Acknowledging the disadvantaged backgrounds and circumstances of the beneficiaries, the project will tackle inequalities in external situational factors like education, families, and access to resources, in accordance with goal 10 of the UNSDG: Reduced Inequalities. Realistic representation and awareness of university life and surrounding concerns that arise during this time will also be focused on during hub sessions. This entrepreneurial leadership will empower the beneficiaries, inspiring them to believe in themselves and their abilities; encouraging openness to apply to universities.
What Global Goals are we working towards?
3 – Good Health and Wellbeing
4 – Gender Equality
10 – Reduced Inequalities
How can you help us?
We are currently trying to connect with beneficiaries in Salford and we need help with building strong relationships with them so we can properly launch our project.
Kwa Murugi
University of Exeter
Nakuru, Kenya is a major source of unemployment, alcoholism and depression. With nearly 70% of unemployment which is 20 times the British’s rate, alcoholism, depression and other socio-economic problems are all the more significant. Impacting any people of the population at any scale of life.
The Enactus Exeter team managed in one year to raise enough funds to send 5 members to the Kwa Murugi slum area in order to make the best possible use of the lifestyle of the people we want to help. We have created both deeply human links and the beginning of a professional network.
We want to rely on the most reliable women in the village to start producing products designed locally by women’s communities. The project is only one year old and it is still a question of clarifying which products would be the most beneficial to design and sell.
What Global Goals are we working towards?
1 – No Poverty
2 – Zero Hunger
3 – Good Health and Wellbeing
6 – Clean Water and Sanitation
How can you help us?
We are currently at the key stage of ideation. A group of 5 people have already been to Kenya and brought us back all the information we need to combine ideas in the best way. We are looking for motivated and implicated people that are good in analyzing, decision making, group tasks and personal work, but also more generally cautious, altruistic, reliable, creative!
Creative Cycles
London School of Economics
Creative Cycle is a 22-week mentorship and workshop program empowering disadvantaged women to become successful female entrepreneurs. We are committed to converting business plans and ideas into profitable businesses and livelihoods and provide holistic support. The project aims at helping disadvantaged women to become financially independent through employment or entrepreneurship, offering them the opportunity to learn online business knowledge and develop useful transferable skills in a real-life business whilst also gaining an income and having beneficiaries applying the knowledge they learn in class to a real-life business created by Creative Cycle. Members will be personally one-on-one mentored by an LSE mentor and taught skills in workshops useful for both entrepreneurship as well as any career or jobs.
It is completely free with 2 hour weekly sessions and several other benefits such as:
– Guest speakers and mentors from firms such as EY and Multiplier
– Entrepreneurship fair to sell and advertise products and collect market research
– Employed part-time and gaining hands-on experience in operating a business created by Creative Cycle’s mentors to gain income and skills.
– Saffron; a software and network that supports startups with progress trackers, access to funding, services in marketing and any other problems
– A community of alumni and other aspiring female entrepreneurs.
Beneficiaries are eligible for our program if she is:
– Female
– Have overcome adversity e.g. homelessness, domestic violence, undereducated, working class
– Based in London
– Committed to come to all sessions
– Have a business idea, plan or existing business
– 18+
What Global Goals are we working towards?
1 – No poverty
8 – Decent Work and Economic Growth
9 – Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
10 – Reduced Inequalities
How can you help us?
We are currently building our business model and looking for funding to source raw materials and advertise both our products and the beneficiaries’ business.
Pheyse
Imperial College London
At Pheyse London, we are committed to producing high quality skincare with all-organic ingredients. Pheyse takes used coffee grounds which are usually a waste product, combines them with natural ingredients such as beeswax and coconut oil and produces a wide range of sustainable products for a wider range of people. Coffee grounds have a natural anti-aging effect and are great for the person. Switching from unnatural, unsustainable cosmetics makes it great for the environment too.
To combat the shorter shelf life associated with products with purely natural preservatives we are implementing a subscription service to allow customers to have fresh products in amounts that they’ll use. This ensures our cosmetics are always at their best and reduces the possibility of waste product and packaging.
What Global Goals are we working towards?
3 – Good Health and Well Being
8 – Decent Work and Economic Growth
13 – Climate Action
How can you help us?
We are currently looking to get funding to test our cosmetics and get approval for sale and are also looking for support with product manufacturing.
BloomBodha
Coventry University
BloomBodha is a social enterprise, which aims to empower young women in volatile environments ( beginning in south India) by providing them a financial backbone to rise out of poverty, fight unemployment and prevent underage marriages.
Our beneficiaries use the BloomBodha brand to sell their hand made products, while also taking part in a life skills program as part of BloomBodha. The life skills program teaches the women how to manage the money they are earning and identify their needs, obstacles and opportunities.
What Global Goals are we working towards?
4 – Quality Education
8 – Decent Work and Economic Growth
10 – Reduced Inequality
11 – Sustainably Cities and Communities
How can you help us?
We are currently doing further needs assessments to understand the extent of the skills these young women have. We are currently looking for support to develop the brand we’re building, which is the enabler for our beneficiaries to attain employment and break their cycle of poverty, as well as prevent them from going into under age marriages.
Breakthrough
Queen’s University Belfast
Breakthrough works with the Youth Homeless Community in Belfast to provide young people with opportunities that will help them on the track to a brighter future. In collaboration with our project partner, Macs, we deliver weekly workshops for our beneficiaries. The workshops include CV writing, Interview skills and most importantly having one on one conversations with our beneficiaries to help break down the divide between the youth homeless and wider society.
What Global Goals are we working towards?
1 – No Poverty
3 – Good Health and Wellbeing
8 – Decent Work and Economic Growth
10 – Reduced Inequalities
How can you help us?
We are trying to work with our beneficiaries to develop a social enterprise. We would appreciate any ideas/ useful links to new beneficiaries that can support.
Prep Mate
Loughborough University
Prep mate is a project which aims to make a product to assist upper limb amputees in cooking in the form of a multi-functional chopping board, this is because we found after speaking to amputees that they experience isolation when they are unable to cook as cooking can be a big part of people’s lives. Therefore we designed and are prototyping a product which aims to allow upper limb amputees to cook whole meals. In the process of designing this product, the Prep Mate team realised that our product could also be used to help a wider audience such as elderly people who struggle with some aspects of cooking like holding food still to chop or slice or even younger people who need experience to gain skills in domestic cooking. Whist designing the product we also have been raising awareness on the difficulties of amputees are facing everyday as they are limited in movement and actions which we all take for granted, therefore we made the Prep Mate challenge where people complete a whole day with the use of only one arm, which we have found that it is a great way for the wider public to really understand the struggles that amputees are facing. We are also making an online platform where amputees can share their stories on their experiences and people who have taken part in the Prep Mate challenge can talk about their experiences whilst doing the challenge, therefore building a community where people can never feel isolated again.
What Global Boals are we working towards?
2 – Zero Hunger
3 – Good Health and Wellbeing
9 – Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
10 – Reduced Inequalities
How can you help us?
We are looking for support with manufacturing and design.
We are spreading awareness by making the Prep Mate challenge and are looking for support in media.
Palma Soap
University of Edinburgh
Palma Soap aims to empower women with entrepreneurial skills whilst combating mosquito-transmitted diseases such as malaria and dengue fever, one bar of soap at a time. Through the production and sale of an all-natural, environmentally friendly, mosquito-repellent soap, our beneficiaries in Malawi and the Philippines, are providing communities with a source of an affordable preventive method against the harsh ramifications of mosquito-transmitted diseases and providing themselves with the opportunity of job and financial security.
What Global Goals are we working towards?
1 – No Poverty
3 – Good Health and Wellbeing
6 – Clean Water and Sanitation
How can you help us?
We are currently ensuring the environmental sustainability of the project by sourcing all local soap ingredients. Therefore, we are looking for support with sustainable sourcing practices or agricultural systems.
Harvest Hub
University of Nottingham
Harvest Hub focuses on sustainable poultry farming in Kenya.
Chicken farming is a popular practice in rural Kenyan communities and has the power to increase a family’s income by at least 35%. Additionally, the fresh eggs and chicken provide a steady source of healthy, organic and protein-rich nutrients and the fowl droppings are used to fertilise crops and yield a 25% harvest increase
Our hands-on training, mentor programs, and supporting materials aim to enhance employability skills and improve the quality of life in the community. We aim to build strong partnerships with the communities we work with and we believe that Harvest Hub will equip our chicken farmers with the skills needed to not only grow the business but further invest in their community.
What Global Goals are we working towards?
3 – Good Health and Wellbeing
8 – Decent Work and Economic Growth
11 – Sustainable Cities and Communities
How can you help us?
We are looking for advice with regards to the construction of our chicken coops, and in forming contracts.
Bangor Bikes
Bangor University
Since a lot of bikes are left over after many international students are unable to bring their bikes back, or they are just left, Bangor Bikes is a student-led workshop and rental scheme aimed at Students / Staff. NEETS will restore reclaimed bikes, rent them out and sell parts.
What global goals are we working towards?
3 – Good Health and Wellbeing
11 – Sustainable Cities and Communities
How can you help us?
We are looking for a project partner that can help us with this process.
ReCloth
University of Leicester
ReCloth aims to tackle a social and environmental issue, simultaneously. Namely, homelessness and the increase in the number of single-use plastics.
The project is designed to tackle these problems by using a fabric obtained from recycling plastic bottles. This fabric is then used to create Winter/ Outdoor wear that will be given away to aid the homeless and rough sleepers in the colder months.
With the help of different charities, we are would like to work towards empowering the homeless by providing them with the necessary skills they need to procure jobs with a fixed salary.
We are really excited about the progress we’ve made so far and are looking to forward this project over the next few months.
What Global Goals are we working for?
1 – No Poverty
14 – Life Below Water
We are currently building our prototype and are looking for support with design, manufacturing and distribution.
How can you support us?
OnTarget
University of Sheffield
OnTarget wishes to implement early intervention strategies in crime prevention by working with underrepresented young people in Sheffield. Improving both mental well-being and employability prospects is the driving force behind the project, bringing social sport and positive role models together to do so.
What Global Goals are we working towards?
3 – Good Health and Wellbeing
4 – Quality Education
10 – Reduced Inequalities
How can you help us?
OnTarget is looking for support with both mentoring resources as well as educational and interactive group-based activities.
Additionally to this, we are hoping to work with a second beneficiary group, ex-offenders. Therefore, any advice on doing so when also working with children would contribute to the success of OnTarget
Renovate
University of Sheffield
Renovate is a project that works closely with homeless and vulnerable individuals to improve their housing status and job prospects, by renovating properties to live in, whilst giving these individuals both basic and advanced skills needed to exceed socially, financially and through employment.
Statistics show that Sheffield has the highest proportion of homeless people in comparison to other major cities in the UK. Opportunities related to housing and employment have become more scarce. Renovate aims to tackle this issue by renovating derelict properties, to enhance their vocational skills and positively impact their well-being. Alongside this, there is a mentoring component which aims to improve employability prospects and provide homeless individuals with the opportunity to gain the basic skills and qualifications needed to advance prospects; empowering them in various ways. We want to ensure those who are involved in the program will have secured employment and housing through the services we provide as well as, our continued support.
What Global Goals are we working towards?
8 – Decent Work and Economic Growth
How can you help us?
We are aiming to establish a partnership with a construction/renovation company and apply for funding with the goal of running a small-scale pilot.
Green Start
University of St Andrews
Green Start aims to provide temporary employment to the homeless of St. Andrews in hopes of helping them reenter society as productive members. We aim to provide temporary employment through a glass recycling scheme where used glass bottles are collected and upcycled into saleable glass products.
What Global Goals are we working towards?
1 – No Poverty
8 – Decent Work and Economic Growth
10 – Reduced Inequalities
11 – Sustainable Cities and Communities
How can you help us?
We are currently looking for support with regards to web design, law and finance.
Technopreneurship
Imperial College London
Technopreneurship is a teaching program led by students from Imperial College London aimed at enhancing access to STEM knowledge at an early stage. Partnering with local schools in London, we conduct interactive STEM program over 5 weeks that inspire students to explore STEM areas (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) beyond ordinary classroom settings in activities such as bath bomb-making, crime scene investigation. We integrate the program with a touch of business and career elements in hope of improving students’ career awareness and employability for experience programs. In the long term, we hope to create a platform that helps students identify their career interests and provide related insight programs in high school accordingly with help from the Enactus and business network.
What Global Goals are we working towards?
4 – Quality Education
9 – Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
10 – Reduced Inequalities
How can you help us?
We are currently exploring means of scaling, marketing and ways to set up a virtual platform to distribute our course, promote and set up experience opportunities for high school students as their internship requirement is often not met with quality experience for there is a gap currently in terms of work or insight experience suitable for high school students.
CodeX
University of Nottingham
Codex is a social enterprise based in Nottingham, UK. We employ university students to teach coding to children who are disadvantaged or who would otherwise not have the opportunity to learn this valuable skill through our 5 and 10-week courses. We primarily target younger children with Autistic Syndrome Disorders as we identified that the employment level for this demographic was far lower than it should have been and one of the skills that are being increasingly looked at by employers going into the technological age is that of coding. We also teach girls in our schools, because at our university less than 20% of the Computer Science students are female – we wanted to make a change. The language that we teach is Python. Python is an industry-grade language used in many modern businesses, meaning that the skills are transferrable to a work setting.
What Global Goals are we working towards?
4 – Quality Education
8 – Decent Work and Economic Growth
5 – Gender Equality
How can you help us?
We are looking from support from companies in the coding industry who can offer insight days for our pupils, to help broaden their experience.
Big Difference
University of Essex
Big Difference is a NEET based project that was launched 3 years ago. The initial project idea was centred on helping young people in the NEETS category get back into employment by organising workshops and CV skills
This year, the project is being revamped from working with youths in NEETS, to preventing vulnerable young people in secondary schools from falling into the NEETS category through mentorship and employment.
What Global Goals are we working towards?
8 – Decent Work and Economic Growth
How can you help us?
We are currently planning to relaunch the project alongside a commercial project on food sales, that will serve as one of the platforms for our beneficiaries to gain work experience. We are looking for support in securing short term employment for our beneficiaries in organisations so as to boost their CV.
Foodprint
University of Nottingham
Foodprint is Nottingham’s first social supermarket and a surplus food redistribution network. We take food that supermarkets would otherwise throw away, but which is still good to eat, and sell it at low prices in their volunteer-run Sneinton store.
Foodprint is Nottingham’s first social supermarket and a surplus food redistribution network.
We take food that supermarkets would otherwise throw away, but which is still good to eat and sell it at low prices in our volunteer-run Sneinton store. This saves food from landfill while ensuring everyone can afford nutritious food. Revenue from the shop subsidises their redistribution operation, delivering food to a number of partner homeless shelters, food banks and social eating projects.
What Global Goals are we working towards?
1 – No Poverty
2 – Zero Hunger
3 – Good Health and Wellbeing
11 – Sustainable Cities and Communities
How can you help us?
We are looking to expand our business through our mobile social supermarket, and are looking for support to help us do this in a way that most benefits our community.
Dine On A Dime
University of St Andrews
Dine on a Dime aims to help those recovering from drug addiction by establishing a community cafe in the heart of Dundee. The main purpose is to provide employment opportunities and to tackle food waste. The cafe will also aim to host community events that are geared towards helping recovery such as: guitar lessons, open mic events etc.
What Global Goals are we working towards?
3 – Good Health and Wellbeing
8 – Decent Work and Economic Growth
11 – Sustainable Cities and Communities
How can you help us?
We are currently working towards establishing a cafe in Dundee. Any support with regards to management, law and food business are welcome.
Slurp
University of Edinburgh
A social enterprise that works with individuals affected by homelessness in Edinburgh. Our strategy is to help as much as possible with a two-pronged approach. On one hand, we design and produce shopper bags, the profits of which are spent on tangible items that will benefit rough sleepers, such as flasks. Twice a week we also make and distribute soup to serve at Streetwork, a local hub that supports the homeless community
What Global Goals are we working towards?
2 – Zero Hunger
3 – Good Health and Wellbeing
How can you help us?
We are looking to scale our impact by designing new products and new ways of selling, and are therefore looking for support with manufacturing, design and market outreach.
Next Step
University of Manchester
Next Step aims to help the homeless community in Manchester by teaching them soft skills that could potentially be used to gain employment and improve their lives. This will be achieved by partnering with a charity that shares the same goals as ours.
What Global Goals are we working towards?
1 – No Poverty
8 – Decent Work and Economic Growth
10 – Reduced Inequalities
How can you help us?
Last year our team had issues with DBS check process. So this year we would like to get the process done as quickly as possible to start to work with our partner charity.
Heart for Nigeria
University of Essex
Heart for Nigeria is an Enactus Essex social enterprise project based in Lagos, Nigeria that is aimed at providing relevant profitable skills to her beneficiaries to help them have a better life. Our aim to directly impact our beneficiaries while indirectly impacting their children and other family members that are dependent on them. This project targets a segregated group of individuals in Nigeria – Internally Displaced Women.
The project also tackles the issue of Waste and Waste management in Lagos Nigeria by educating our beneficiaries on the importance of waste management and organising workshops on how they can leverage on waste such as plastic in building their businesses.
Based on our needs assessment, we identified a Sanitation problem in the community base of the project, as a result, we trained our beneficiaries in soap making. The beneficiaries recycle plastic waste in their community to use for the product packaging. This is then sold to businesses and community members at an affordable price.
What Global Goals are we working towards?
1 – No Poverty
5 – Gender Equality
8 – Decent Work and Economic Growth
11 – Sustainable Cities and Communities
How can you help us?
We are looking to expand the project idea into a stand-alone social enterprise that employee the beneficiaries rather than just a social project which enables them to kickstart their individual businesses. For this, we are looking for support in establishing an online business in Nigeria.
Reconnect
University of Bath
Reconnect is all about the relationship between autism and work. We strive to reduce the inequalities people on the autism spectrum innately face in access to employment. We do this by running skill sessions for autistic students and by collaborating with companies to increase both sides’ understanding of the issue. Over the past two year our main focus has been on the issues faced by students on the spectrum. The activities run by Reconnect not only increase the participants’ employability, but dramatically increase their confidence as well. Last year we partnered with AIG to offer an exclusive insight day attended by a student from the University of Bath. This year, we aim to expand the project to tackle issues facing employers when hiring persons with autism and to extend our help to both younger and older beneficiaries.
What global goals are we working towards?
8 – Decent Work and Economic Growth
10 – Reduced Inequalities
How can you help us?
As we are trying to reach employers with whom we can have open discussions about autism in the workplace, we are looking for companies interested in hiring autistic talent to contact us. We are specifically looking for support and advice on how to best reach companies to push for equality in access to employment. We are also looking for companies open to the idea of working with autistic students & job-seekers directly.
Urban Mushroom Co
University of Exeter
The Urban Mushroom Company focuses on tackling both environmental and social issues within the local community, through upcycling waste coffee grounds to grow gourmet Oyster mushrooms.
There are 55 million cups of coffee sold in the UK every single day, however, less than 1% of the coffee bean ends up in your cup, with the rest going into landfill. That’s over half a million tonnes of coffee grounds going to waste each year in the UK alone. Unbelievably, this amounts to one-twelfth of the country’s total food waste. When left to decompose in a landfill, coffee grounds produce methane, a greenhouse gas far more potent than carbon dioxide.
We saw an opportunity to take this nutrient-rich waste and use it to make something new. We created the Urban Mushroom Company. Our circular business model collects waste coffee grounds from local cafes to be mixed with mycelium which produces the oyster mushroom fungus. These gourmet oyster mushrooms are then harvested and sold to local businesses.
Currently, we are operating in a rented unit, growing our second test batch of mushrooms. We are utilising vertical farming techniques and hydroponic technology to maximise our yields. We will soon be moving into a larger location to increase production.
We are primarily aiming to sell to restaurants and local food stores who are looking for high quality, locally sourced mushrooms that come with a low carbon footprint, a market that
continues to expand in the current environmentally-conscious climate. We also aim to sell directly to members of the public through online sales.
Once we have refined our growing and established effective sale avenues we plan on collaborating with St Sidwell’s Community center. This partnership will enable us to offer disadvantaged volunteers the opportunity of hands-on experience and transferable skills to develop their employability and provide a bridge into employment.
What Global Goals are we working towards?
8 – Decent Work and Economic Growth
11 – Sustainable Cities and Communities
12 – Responsible Consumption and Production
13 – Climate Action
How can you help us?
Since registering as a company we are looking for financial mentorship. Specifically in areas such as account keeping for small businesses & taxation.
Jifunza
University of Sussex
Jifunza is a relatively new project aiming to inspire entrepreneurial activity in disadvantaged school aged children in Kenya. We have developed a curriculum of lessons aiming to teach children about social enterprise and giving them the skills and encouragement to pursue these. There will then be a competition between schools for the best social enterprise idea, with the winning team receiving seed funding and support.
What Global Goals are we working towards?
4 – Quality Education
8 – Decent Work and Economic Growth
How can you help us?
We are currently building our curriculum and aim to be implementing test runs to receive feedback from teachers during the Autumn term. Team development, skills and training will be key to getting Jifunza established and running effectively. Support from teachers or educators will be really helpful for us to gain insight into educational techniques. Furthermore, funding will be essential to sending the project out to Kenya.
Toast of the Town
University of Leicester
Toast of the Town aims to reduce bread waste in Leicester by utilising bread that is still edible but cannot be sold by supermarkets and turns it into a locally brewed, vegan ale.
This, both, reduces bread waste and supports a local micro-brewery. The project was started after our previous team found out through research into food waste that 24,000,000 (24 Million) slices of bread are thrown away every single day in the UK alone.
Our first production run was March 2017 where we reduced 25 Kg of bread waste.
We hope to continue to reduce bread waste in the future.
What Global Goals are we working towards?
12 – Responsible Consumption and Production
How can you help us?
We are looking for support with re-branding, marketing and distribution of the product.http://enactusleicester.co.uk/
Pawject
University of East Anglia
This project aims to improve the social and financial well-being of vulnerable individuals (people who are homeless or at risk of being homeless), by instilling social and marketable skills in them. So far, we’ve been doing this with the help of our project partner Under-1-Roof.
Since 2017, we have been in partnership with Under-1-Roof (an organisation that assists vulnerable adults by offering opportunities to develop the skills that will help them to live independently within the community) and we’ve successfully run a 6 – week sewing workshop with them. From these workshops, we teach the vulnerable adults to make special handcrafted items such as dog beds, neck pillows, decorative ornaments and more. Furthermore, we also provide basic business start-up workshops to help beneficiaries gain some employability skills as well as helping them reintegrate back into society. We improved the lives of 15 individuals and impacted the lives of 5 individuals through this 6 – week workshop and product distribution for rough sleepers.
What Global Goals are we working towards?
1 – No Poverty
3 – Good Health and Wellbeing
8 – Decent Work and Economic Growth
How can you help us?
We have 10 sewing machines and have tried renting sewing machines out, currently, they are kept in our members’ accommodation, looking for ideas on how or where to store these inventories to be more sustainable.
We will be holding two-week workshops with the beneficiaries. Workshops are about basic business start-up and online business (planning to help beneficiaries set up an online account on websites such as ETSY). We are looking for support in delivering these workshops.
We are currently trying to improve environmental sustainability by using used fabrics, accessories. We are looking for support to get these items in order to reuse them. We are also looking for support with the design of handcrafts we can make in order to make it more marketable.
Chance for Change
Aston University
This is a 3 part project. The first part focuses on improving their English by providing Online Linguistic Support for refugees to use in their own time. Also, we will be providing a buddy scheme so the refugees can actively practice their English.
The 2nd part of the project will provide employability support such as help with CV’s and cover letters, mock interviews, one to professional advice and a networking session.
In the final part of the project, refugees will have the opportunity to work for a soup enterprise. They will be cooking the food as well as selling the soup on campus.
What Global Goals are we working towards?
1 – No Poverty
3 – Good Health and Wellbeing
4 – Quality Education
8 – Decent Work and Economic Growth
How can you help us?
We are looking for support with having links to employers. For example, it would be great if we could have our mock interviews conducted by real employers. Also, our main goal is to get the refugees employed in a field or industry they would like to work in. Therefore, it would be really helpful if we received support with providing employment for the refugees.
We would also like support with soup aspect of the project. For example, if we had a caterer that could work in partnership with us to make the support and use their facilities, this would be really helpful for our project.
The Gateway
University of Warwick
The Gateway is a social enterprise aimed at empowering refugees and asylum seekers, through workshops and a mentorship program. The workshops include soft skills such as presentation skills, English-speaking skills, and team-work skills. There are also IT skills workshops. Our focus this year is to find employability opportunities for our beneficiaries.
What Global Goals are we working towards?
10 – Reduced Inequalities
How can you help us?
We are currently focusing on finding placements (voluntary or paid) for our beneficiaries. We could use legal support in exploring where our beneficiaries who have the asylum seeker status can work. In addition to this, we are focusing on building a stronger syllabus for our workshops with the guidance of a professional teacher which we are in the process of finding.
NutriGreens
University of Nottingham
NUTRIgreens is a social enterprise that is aiming to tackle malnutrition in Uganda using microgreens; which are vegetables harvested after 1-2 weeks. Microgreens contain up to 40 times the nutrient concentration of their mature counterparts, and approximately 150 times less water to be produced. Due to their small size, they can be grown in volume with little burden on the producer, making them suitable for indoor growing.
Uganda is ranked 129th/187 on the HDI index, and many children suffer from symptoms of a malnourished diet. Both Vitamin A and Iodine deficiency exceed the WHO cut-off, putting them in the class of a severe public health issue. Low age-for-height is a more obvious symptom, whilst 50% of children 6 months to 5 years old, are anemic (Iron and Vitamin D deficiency). UNICEF has linked these symptoms to wider consequences, such as poor academic performance resulting from energy and concentration issues, limiting children’s development.
Our project will empower farmers and students alike to improve their health and create a sustainable livelihood for themselves. We hope to achieve this by selling microgreens commercially to restaurants in both Nottingham and Kampala, enabling us to subsidise the production for schools. Our aim is to introduce Microgreens into the African market to combat the issues of a predominantly cereal-based diet that has a low nutritional value.
What Global Goals are we working towards?
2 – Zero Hunger
3 – Good Health and Wellbeing
How can you help us?
We are looking for financial support to be able to build greenhouses in schools.
Lakshmi
King’s College London
The Lakshmi project seeks to develop sustainable cosmetic products through the promotion of fair trade and gender equality in the northeast state of Sikkim, India. This project strives to promote financial inclusion of women in the region through prioritizing their employment in our business, ultimately working towards building a workforce that encourages female labour force participation on a local level. Our recruitment and training process will center around the financial inclusion of rural women and will focus greatly on encouraging financial literacy to further combat prominent social barriers and economic inequalities.
Furthermore, this project seeks to promote the manufacturing of eco-friendly cosmetics in India’s only organic state; commodifying the agricultural waste produced by local farmers and thus contributing to the organic tag that lacks sufficient marketing and promotion in the region thus far. The manufacturing and production methods utilized will be ethical in their use of sustainable ingredients and packaging; and will only use waste from locally sourced crops to promote upcycling in the region whilst maintaining and honoring local ayurvedic methods. The project offers an opportunity to tackle prominent social issues in India and provides an introduction in the development of gender issues, agriculture, economic inequalities and sustainable manufacturing through female entrepreneurship.
What Global Goals are we working towards?
5 – Gender Equality
8 – Decent Work and Economic Growth
10 – Reduced Inequalities
11 – Sustainable Cities and Communities
12 – Responsible Consumption and Production
How can you help us?
We need help with a business plan and with research in sustainable manufacturing.
Food Intercept
University of Warwick
Food Intercept aims to reduce food waste and to provide employment for socially isolated women. We are also working towards a few Sustainable Development Goals including ‘Responsible Consumption and Production’, ‘Good Health and Wellbeing’ and ‘Sustainable Cities and Communities’.
This past year we have started a collaborative initiative with Mum’s Kitchen. Mum’s Kitchen is another social enterprise which employs socially isolated women to cook and earn a wage from the proceeds of the sale of the food.
Our collaboration involves the FI team collecting unsold produce from the Coventry Market on the weekend and delivering them to Mum’s Kitchen where the produce collected will be used to make delicious vegan Indian food.
The food cooked is then brought to the Warwick University campus to be sold at the Global Sustainable Development Department Common Room. The profits of the food sale allow us to continue to operate and a portion of the profits are sent back to Mum’s Kitchen to go towards the wages of the women who cooked the food.
What Global Goals are we working towards?
3 – Good Health and Wellbeing
8 – Decent Work and Economic Growth
11 – Sustainable Cities and Communities
13 – Climate Action
How can you help us?
We are currently looking to expand and looking towards applying for a food and drink license to expand our stall operations. We are also looking towards scaling our marketing to reach out to more customers. We are also looking to sell outside campus in the long term
SoMar
University of St Andrews
Project SoMar is a student-run entrepreneurial initiative to utilise food waste from various retailers and resell it at a significantly cheaper price. The project serves to help Saint Andrews become a more environmentally-friendly town and provide access to quality products to members of the low-income community. The project will look to collaborate with various departments of the University of St Andrews and local community cafes in order to expand its reach to the wider community.
What Global Goals are we working towards?
11 – Sustainable Cities and Communities
12 – Responsible Consumption and Production
How can you help us?
We are currently looking for support with regards to web design and finance.
Frontier
Queen’s University Belfast
Frontier is our most established project at Enactus Belfast. Last year we conducted a needs assessment with NICRAS, a refugee-based charity in Belfast, and discovered many refugees in our area were struggling to pass the Life in the UK test to start a new life. The Life in the UK Test which consists of questions covering history, values, and traditions of the United Kingdom. They informed us of the difficulty’s asylum seekers face in leaving their past behind and fully assimilating into Northern Irish life. This is due, in part, to the lack of State support and the many obstacles they face on the path to full integration- on their path to becoming citizens. Realising this we worked with NICRAS offering weekly classes to those in need. Having three of our beneficiaries pass the life in the UK test, we decided to expand to a second larger organisation, HAPANI, helping a further 16 beneficiaries change their lives. We currently run two workshops a week, one during the day for parents and another in the evening for teenagers and young adults. By holding weekly class tests, we allow our beneficiaries to test and improve their knowledge as well as monitoring their progress. With this, we enable our beneficiaries to pursue qualifications, obtain employment, and, most importantly, call Northern Ireland home. Through meeting with our beneficiaries weekly, we are able to work one on one with them and equip them with the knowledge and skills, that will allow them to live the life they deserve.
What Global Goals are we working towards?
4 – Quality Education
10 – Reduced Inequalities
How can you help us?
We are currently looking to expand our project by partnering with more charities for asylum seekers in Belfast and therefore, we are looking for support in regard to funding for Life in the UK books, for the production of our study guides and for the exam fees.