We are incredible proud to share that NextGenLeaders, one of our key Enactus UK & Ireland programmes, took home the “Climate Pioneer” Award at the 2026 P.E.A Awards.

After six weeks of ideation, innovation, and creative problem-solving, the very first Ford Smart Mobility Accelerator Programme has come to an end, and what a way to finish. With a Pitch Day hosted at Ford’s offices in Dunton, Essex, the programme could not have ended on a higher note.

Target Jobs celebrates the UK’s most outstanding undergraduates. We are extremely happy and excited to be sharing about our Enactus students at the Target Jobs Undergraduate of the Year Awards 2026!

This time around we celebrated the success of our young Changemakers at our NextGen Leaders final Celebration Event. A day packed of youth-led innovation and inspiring stories.

Our yearly Enactus World Cup Qualifiers finally came to an end over the two days at the NextGen Takerover 2026- and with that, we’ve got our Enactus team travelling and representing the UK and Ireland at the Enactus World Cup in Brazil!.

At Enactus, we believe that backing ideas early unlocks the leadership potential of our changemakers. Meet the top 4 project from our Ideas4Impact Accelerator

Enactus UK & Ireland are excited to announce the shortlist for our 2026 Awards! This is the time of year when we come together to celebrate and recognise the incredible work happening across our network - we are absolutely delighted to be able to showcase these achievements.

Our annual Stop Hunger Challenge, in collaboration with Sodexo Stop Hunger Foundation and Wells Fargo, brought together student teams from across the UK and Ireland working to address food insecurity in their communities.

Ahead of the Enactus World Cup Qualifier, our Top 20 teams participated in a final coaching clinic designed to refine their storytelling, strengthen their impact narratives, and elevate their pitching skills.

After launching the Enactus x Stop Hunger Challenge back in February, together with Sodexo and Wells Fargo, we’ve selected nine youth-led social enterprises to take their ideas focussed on tackling food insecurity and accelerate them into impactful, scalable businesses with purpose.

We are announcing the Top 20 Qualifying teams from our Enactus World Cup Qualifier Rounds. After a week of the qualifying rounds across the UK and Ireland, we bring to you the best of student-led innovation.

We are thrilled to share that we are expanding our partnership with BDO to accelerate the development of our NextGenLeaders programme, which supports schools located in social mobility cold spots within the Yorkshire and Humber region.

We celebrate our Regional Qualifier rounds, where students have the opportunity to pitch their social enterprises to a panel of expert judges. A start in the student journey on to the Enactus World Cup 2026, which takes place in São Paulo, Brazil.

In this blog, we hear from Katherine Boyle, a Queen’s University Belfast student whose Enactus journey began with a single competition and grew into leadership roles, international experiences and a placement year at Unilever.

Enactus Liverpool visited the Magnit to deliver a showase on their two community driven projects. Here, they had the opportunity to recieve expert feedback from coaches on how to scale their impact and deliver an effective pitch.

We kick-off 2026 with the first intervention of the year from our Schools Programme, NextGenLeaders, The Project Development Day in Leeds. An action-packed day designed to help student teams refine their ideas and transform them into actionable social impact projects.