The British Council: International Enterprise Programme

This pilot project, co-funded by the Premier League, the British Council and Sport Relief aims to adapt the UK Premier League Enterprise initiative to test out the model in an overseas context in South Africa. It will use the backdrop of professional football clubs’ business models to deliver core skills in enterprise education for young people from the football clubs’ community engagement programmes and NGOs active in enterprise education. Key learning from this pilot can then be used to potentially scale up the initiative in future yearsThe pilot will involve a co-creation approach with local partners and will be delivered in 2 centres (Cape Town and Johannesburg). An initial scoping exercise will be undertaken to identify suitable partners, followed by 3 webinars delivered by a UK Premier League consultant to local partner stakeholders. These webinars will aim to explain more about the enterprise offer, provide an opportunity for input from local partners, agree roles and responsibilities and then finalise the programme content, delivery model and outcomes framework relevant to the delivery context and local partner needs.A face to face training intervention will then be designed and delivered by Premier League consultant trainers in Johannesburg and Cape Town for selected practitioners from local partner organisations. These practitioners will then run up to 25 enterprise skills development courses for young people from their organisations in the cascade phase, with a further face to face visit planned by the Premier League consultant trainers for quality assurance purposes.

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