1. Schools, Innovation and Self-Sustainability: School Enterprise Challenge Christine Moser – July 2016

2. About Teach A Man To Fish
We are a UK based education and entrepreneurship charity. Since 2006 we’ve been supporting school enterprise in more than 120 countries around the World.

3. Our Vision
A world free from poverty where all young people are able to reach their full potential in life.

4. Our Mission and Model
To enable schools to provide a relevant education, through enterprise, that empowers young people to succeed in work and in life.
We work with schools around the world to set up school businesses. These businesses are both educational and profitable:-
Educational: Students gain valuable and practical workplace skills from involvement in an enterprise.
Income Generation: Enterprises can provide a useful extra source of income for schools.

5. Theory of Change
Our Theory of Change outlines how targeting a series of short, medium and long term outcomes in our work, leads to the long term impact we seek – young people succeeding in work and in life.

7. What is the School Enterprise Challenge?

8. What is the School Enterprise Challenge?
A business start-up awards programme for schools around the world.
The programme is FREE and guides and supports teachers and students to set up REAL school businesses.
It helps students develop the skills they need to succeed in work and in life.
The programme also helps schools generate extra income for their school, or a social cause of their choice.
We award prizes to the most enterprising schools, students & teachers, as well as certificates to all who participate!

9. What is a School Enterprise?
An enterprise managed and run by the students but that is owned by the school.
Sustainable
School enterprises should aim to be sustainable and aim to run for an indefinite period of time.

10. Consider: People, Profit, Planet
A business that has a positive impact on the local community
A business that generates a profit (relative to the original investment)
We want schools to create businesses that not only generate profit, but that also have a positive impact on their local community & environment.
A business that has a positive impact on the local environment.

11. Key Information
The School Enterprise Challenge is now in its 6th year. In 2015:-
Over 70,000 young people around the world participated from 106 countries!
1178 schools submitted business ideas
800+ schools developed these ideas into business plans
More than 400 schools started businesses!
Schools that reached business implementation stage generated an average net profit of $462 in their first 3 months of operation!

12. Key Information
So far in 2016, we already have over 2000 schools participating – join our enterprising community!

13. How does it work?
There are 3 stages. (Stage 1: Business Idea, Stage 2: Business Plan, Stage 3: Final Report). At every stage, schools are expected to complete and submit a simple template to us in order to win prizes! We provide free educational materials, lesson plans, activities, and business planning tools to support students through the process. The challenge opens this year in March and runs until October 30th. Schools are encouraged to register AS SOON AS POSSIBLE to allow ample time for business planning and set up.

14. Our Educational Resources
We provide a weekly competition guide packed with:-
Inspirational Lesson Ideas
Tried and tested Lesson plans
Easy to use business planning templates and tools
A Primary AND Secondary Enterprise curriculum for schools who wish to combine practical entrepreneurship with a theoretical curriculum.
Additional resources to help you plan and launch a successful school business. e.g.
Social Media pack
Community Engagement pack

15. Over $50,000 worth of prizes!
Prizes at every stage of the competition!
$5,000 for the overall global winner
Three prizes of $2,000 for the winners in the People, Profit and Planet categories
Ten prizes of up to $2,000 for the Regional Winners!
Primary School prizes up to $2000!

16. Over $50,000 worth of prizes!
$2,000 for the ’Inspirational Teacher’ Award, with $1,000 for two runners up!
A laptop for the ‘Enterprising Student’ Award and cameras for two runners up!
Sponsored places at our international conference
bringing together some of the world’s leading practitioners in financially sustainable education in a unique forum for learning, networking, inspiration and action.

17. Global recognition for Schools
For a full list of our inspiring 2015 prizewinners see:

18. Case Studies

19. Ilowola Secondary School, Tanzania School Enterprise Challenge as part of the school timetable
School harvested honey from bee hives and sold both the raw product and products made from it including candles
Project used as an extra curricular activity but also to enhance curriculum areas
Biology – students learnt about the life cycle of bees and the pollination process
Geography – climate change and the impact on the bee population
Technology – carpentry students practiced their techniques by constructing the hives

20. Ondati Girls’ School, Kenya School Enterprise Challenge as part of the school timetable
School runs a pineapple plantation and sells fruit at the local market
Students are on a rota for watering and weeding each day – each pupil will do this for half an hour each week
Top performing students go to the market on Friday afternoons to sell the pineapples
Enterprise is used to enhance the existing ‘business studies’ curriculum which had previously been very academic
Students designed advertising materials as part of Art and Swahili lessons

21. The Birches, South Africa School Enterprise Challenge in primary/elementary schools
Students aged 4-7
Enterprise produces eggs & vegetables for sale
Four parents support the overall management of enterprise
Classes took turns to care for the chickens and water the vegetables
With the help of parents, the students run a daily ‘market’ at the school, with the older students handling money etc

22. Luthando High School, South Africa
Based in a rural town in South Africa.
15 students started a Fruit juice business.
The students made sure their business was environmentally friendly by recycling their juice bottles.
Their business also aims to raise awareness among their community about the importance of healthy nutrition and vitamins.
The school organised a Talent Show in order to raise the start-up capital for the business.
With limited internet and computer facilities, the school managed to complete and submit a handwritten entry to the competition.

23. Instituto Superación Santa Lucia, Honduras
213 students and 18 teachers involved in the business.
$186 total income generated.
Set up a recycling business. They provide a paid service, collecting waste materials generated by the inhabitants of their town and taking them to a recycling unit.
Now their community looks cleaner and nicer.
They involved their school, their community and local authorities in the business. The council was so impressed that they are going to make a financial contribution to the business!

24. Rock Community School, Uganda
In 2013, this school of 180 primary and secondary students, started up Rock Handicrafts Club.
The students come from a poor fishing community that has a very high student dropout rate.
Students used locally sourced materials including reeds from their local swamp to make baskets, mats and purses.
The school reported greater communication between the community, parents and teachers and greater cooperation between students and their teachers.
The school used profits to purchase school books and uniforms for several orphaned students.

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