The Giving Nation Challenge is a financially supported active learning programme. It aims to boost learning about charities, social enterprises and individual giving. It does this by providing a unique new curriculum-based active learning resource and a grant to help schools get going.

This initiative allows students to gain real-life understanding and learning through this dynamic and creative process of creating a short lived social enterprise.  It engenders team work, highlights project management and community involvement along with all the benefits of an enterprise and citizenship rich project.

The programme is designed to deepen students' understanding of the role and value of UK charities while maintaining all the benefits of charitable support in the school environment. Its methodology and practice ensure that charitable participation remains entirely optional / voluntary within the school setting.

The programme provides all the resources needed to take student groups through the processes of forming their social enterprise.  Giving Nation additionally offers built-in tools for creative planning and consultation in the form of online class diaries so that each class becomes an effective short-lived organisation, competing against other classes across a year group, for the hearts and minds of the rest of the school. Who will do this the most effectively - and what can be learned in the process?

Why not get a taste of the programme by viewing the 3 minute video introduction before registering and Challenging your students to make a difference!

• Curriculum based learning - Citizenship & Enterprise
• Developing volunteering in the school environment
• School-based charity projects
• Social Enterprise projects