Social Enterprise Education - Harnessing Personal Values & Motivations Toolkit

Sep 22, 2026

Upload by Kurz

Toolkit for inclusive, creative social enterprise learning, designed to support educators and widen dissemination. It outlines a six-week, extra-curricular online programme co-designed by London South Bank University and University of the Arts London, informed by literature on intersectional structural disadvantage. The content addresses student barriers to engagement, using interactive session plans that connect personal values and motivations to social enterprise, ethical practice, intellectual property, and community impact through practical activities and guided reflection.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryPresentations

FormatPDF

Pages18

Reading Time6 min

AccessFree to download

Contents Page

Introduction to Project

Lesson Plans

Session One: Values and Motivations

Session Two: What is Social Enterprise?

Session Three: Intellectual Property and Ethics

Session Four: Social Entrepreneurs

Session Five: EntreComp Framework

Session Six: Values and Ideas Generation

Impact

Acknowledgements

Social Enterprise Education: Harnessing Personal Values & Motivations Toolkit Harnessing personal values and motivations to increase the effectiveness and inclusiveness of social enterprise education Contents Page Introduction to Project Lesson Plans Session One: Values and Motivations Session Two: What is Social Enterprise? Session Three: Intellectual Property and Ethics Session Four: Social Entrepreneurs Session Five: EntreComp Framework Session Six: Values and Ideas Generation Impact Acknowledgements Introduction to Project This toolkit aims to contribute to the development of inclusive and creative strategies for entrepreneurial learning that expand knowledge, know-how and networks in underrepresented communities. From February through to April 2021 London South Bank University’s Student Enterprise team and Careers and Employability at University of the Arts London collaboratively designed and delivered the six-week extra-curricular programme‘Values & Social Enterprise’. The project was supported by EEUK and was offered free of charge to targeted students from both universities in weekly, two hour sessions online. The targeted students were from under-represented groups and those that traditionally experience barriers in accessing creative enterprise opportunities, support and funding. Namely: POLAR4 (participation of local areas) Quintiles 1 and 2,( Index of Multiple Deprivation) , Black and Asian students or those from minority ethnic groups. Disabled students, caregivers or care leavers. The programme was informed by a literature review (see evaluation report) which revealed the challenges that intersectional, structural disadvantage can present for emerging entrepreneurs. The project sought to identify and address students' barriers to engagement in enterprise education. Through the process, the following toolkit was produced to inform social enterprise education for wider dissemination amongst educators. The workshops explore student’s personal values and motivations and how this relates to social enterprise and community impact. This is broken down into the following sessions: • Session One: Values and Motivations • Session Two: What is Social Enterprise • Session Three: Intellectual Property and Ethics • Session Four: Social Entrepreneurs • Session Five: EntreComp Framework • Session Six: Values and Ideas Generation The session plans below are not prescriptive, but detail key activities and structures which can be used to enhance entrepreneurial education. Session One: Values and Motivations Objectives and Key Messages The session looks at how personal values and experience can help shape both how social enterprise and more broadly enterprise education is taught at universities and framed so that it doesn't alienate students who perhaps do not think it is for them. The session explores what values are and asks students to consider the relationship between their values and their life experience. Students were guided through interactive exercises to help them uncover personal values, and learnt how understanding their personal values can be used to guide their behaviours and decisions. Students are also asked to reflect on what types of social enterprise or business they admire based on their own core values. Introduction • Check in-name, pronoun, course/ college, how you’re feeling or what drew you to the project? • Discussion: Space ‘Rules of Play’ (students to discuss concerns about project or group work and collectively come up with strategies to deal with this) • Discussion: What are Values? Where do we get our values from? Environment, culture, people we surround ourselves with. It acts as a guidance on how you wish to live your life, derived from life experiences/family/friends. Values make up your wider belief system and governs our behaviour and our purpose. General Group Discussion • How have your values been shaped by your persona

FAQs

What is the purpose of the toolkit?

It aims to develop inclusive and creative strategies for entrepreneurial learning and to produce a toolkit that educators can use to inform social enterprise education more widely.

How was the programme delivered and to whom?

It ran from February to April 2021 as a six-week extra-curricular programme with weekly two-hour online sessions for targeted students from both universities.

What topics are covered across the six sessions?

The sessions cover personal values and motivations, what social enterprise is, intellectual property and ethics, social entrepreneurs, the EntreComp framework, and values-led ideas generation.

Sep 22, 2026

Upload by Kurz