Enactus Liverpool helps school teams in Premier League Enterprise Challenge
Enactus Liverpool has helped a team of students from Broadgreen International reach the final of this year’s Premier League Enterprise Challenge final.
The Premier League Enterprise Challenge is a national competition run in partnership with Sport Relief for students in years nine and ten from across the country. Over 140 schools took part in this year’s competition and the task was to come up with ideas to encourage diversity at football matches and increase attendance.
Enactus Liverpool worked with Everton in the Community to find a team to represent Everton at the regional and possibly the national finals. Five local schools were asked to produce a business report along with a short presentation to put forward their ideas that addressed the overall task.
In order to help the students through the process, members of Enactus Liverpool delivered a number of workshops at each of the schools which looked at basic finance and presentation skills. They also helped the teams put their presentations together and the schools were able to visit the Management School for an afternoon to utilise the facilities and further develop their presentations.
The club heats took place in December and Enactus representatives attended to help support the schools and watch them battle it out. All of the groups came up great ideas but Broadgreen International’s stood out as the most viable and the judges were impressed with the team's targeted community engagement strategy which aimed to develop a more diverse fanbase.
Broadgreen International progressed on to the regional play-offs at Anfield earlier this month where they competed against teams representing Manchester United, Burnley, Liverpool and Newcastle United. The judges were impressed with Broadgreen International’s well researched business idea so will now go on to represent Everton at the final in London in April.
Rebecca Rowlands, Project Leader for Enactus Liverpool working with Everton, commented on the challenge, “We really enjoyed working with Broadgreen International and we are so excited with their win – they put in the effort and it was thoroughly deserved. We set out to enhance the student’s understanding of enterprise and entrepreneurship and fully believe that we have achieved this. We will continue to support Broadgreen International in the upcoming final.”
