NextGenLeaders - 2024 Global Good Awards winners for Educational Excellence (Small orgs)

The Enactus UK NextGenLeaders Programme is a youth leadership initiative aimed at empowering young individuals to become responsible leaders through project-based learning and youth participatory action. The programme focusses on social mobility cold-spots and involves students as young as Year 7; fostering qualities of curiosity, creativity, and empathy as they collaborate to address real-world challenges head-on.
Partnering with schools with significant numbers of pupil premium students, the programme equips these Changemakers with a deep understanding of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through tailored tasks, research, and seminars conducted in collaboration with partner organisations. Guided by mentors, the students design their own community projects. Past initiatives have targeted diverse groups as Changemakers decide who they identify as their ‘community’ and what their community needs, so the ‘communities’ have included ‘young neurodivergent individuals’, ‘youth at risk of knife crime in S2 and S9 postcode areas’, ‘homeless people who have periods’ and ‘young carers’.
Over the last year, over 300 Changemakers have worked on their own projects in NextGenLeader schools. In 2022-23, almost 6000 people benefitted directly from the impact of the NextGenLeader projects, all designed and implemented by Changemakers as young as 11 years old.

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