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.

Mythili Madhavan, Co-Director at Enactus Aston, offers her reflections on last week's Coaching Clinic, a key initiative designed to provide industry experts with flexible development opportunities while generating impact with Enactus students.

NACE (National Association for Able Children in Education), in partnership with York St John University and supported by the Institute for Social Justice’s VSCE-Academic Research Programme, hosted a session for teachers to preview upcoming research aimed at enhancing our understanding of provision for more able disadvantaged learners.

Our first coaching development session as part of our Coaching4Impact programme- connecting volunteers with students amd offering corporate volunteers a meaningful development opportunity.

This week, we delivered our November Coaching Clinics, bringing together over 15 Enactus teams and more than 25 volunteers to help our changemakers strengthen their projects through tailored expert support.

On 4 November, the BDO Leeds office became the pilot launchpad for the NextGenLeaders Volunteer Programme, kicking off an exciting initiative for BDO to work with local young people to champion social mobility.

York St John University’s Community Research in Practice: event brought together VCSE groups and researchers to share learning and insight. Our ongoing work with York St John University reflects this spirit, showing how youth-centred research can spark change.

This year’s, we hosted our Regional Impact Accelerators (RIA) across Nottingham, London, Newcastle and Dublin, bringing together over 130 Enactus students from over 40 universities across the UK and Ireland.

We are here to congratulate the TU Dublin Enactus team for their outstanding achievement! The recognition of ReFridge at the Green Gown Awards is a massive step on the right direction to our goal: to shape the next generation of responsible leaders.

Stephen Brown, Impact Lead at the Enactus UK & Ireland team, shares how Enactus sits at the heart of innovation, drawing from his experience recruiting bright young minds at the ESBF.

Enactus students joined forces with BDO professionals for the 2025 BDO x Enactus Voice of the Future Challenge. In its third year, the Enactus Voice of the Future Challenge focused on improving social mobility