The Enterprise Challenge for Schools

Get your students to take on the Enterprise Challenge for charity and develop vital business and entrepreneurial skills, whilst supporting young people with cancer in your local community.

The Enterprise Challenge is a great tool to engage pupils, helping them to develop vital business and entrepreneurial skills, whilst supporting young people in your local community with cancer. The challenge can provide students with an edge in a highly competitive business environment, allowing them to add some of these vital skills to their CV:

  • Organisation and project management skills
  • Budgeting
  • Enterprise
  • Fundraising
  • Working as a team
  • Event planning
  • Volunteering
  • Being a Student Ambassador
  • Presentation skills
  • Campaigning experience

How does my school take on the challenge?

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Register your school and we'll send you wristbands to help you start your challenge

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Students come up with a plan to sell those wristbands and use the proceeds to raise even more money!

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Let the donations roll in and celebrate your amazing fundraising with an awards ceremony

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Donate 100% of your profits to Teenage Cancer Trust. Your support will help us be there for every young person aged 13-24 who hears the words "you have cancer".
Sign up to the Enterprise Challenge today

Every day, seven young people aged 13-24 will hear the devastating words “you have cancer”. Our goal is to ensure that every young person with cancer has access to our specialist and expert care from the moment of diagnosis.

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Why support Teenage Cancer Trust

Young person on hospital bed talking with Teenage Cancer Trust nurse

We create world class cancer services for young people in the UK, providing life-changing care and support so young people don’t have to face cancer alone.

Every day, seven young people aged 13-24 hear the words “you have cancer”. They will each need specialised nursing care and support to get them through the toughest times they may have faced.

We’re the only UK charity dedicated to meeting this vital need. By choosing to run for Teenage Cancer Trust, you can help us to reach every young person facing cancer and make a huge difference.

So you know we’re the real deal, these are our registered charity details: 1062559 (England & Wales), SC039757 (Scotland).

Sign up to the Enterprise Challenge for schools today

With your help we can grow our...

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Specialist units in NHS hospitals across the UK

£9.5m

Invested in life-changing cancer services, during 2020

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Funded Teenage Cancer Trust Nurses and Youth Support Coordinators