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Big Challenge Evaluation – A film by youth research volunteers

UnLtd Research worked alongside the Big Challenge to recruit, train and support 9 volunteers to document the journey of young Award Winners in Year 1 of the Big Challenge Programme. The project was entirely youth-led from start to finish, involving filmed interviews, learning editing skills and producing the final film. The film focuses on 4 of the Big Challenge Awarded Projects, including interviews with project leads and volunteers. It shows their motivations, project activities, what they have gained, the challenges they have faced, what they are most proud of, the projects’ wider impact and how they see their future. The Youth Research Team explain:

“We all felt very inspired by the project winners, and proud to be a part of their journey. We wanted to help to document their projects so that others could be inspired by them and also to provide material to help the Big Challenge programme to continue to develop”

As such the film provides a unique insight into Big Challenge Award Winners and their development over time, highlighting the impact of providing young people with the money and support necessary to run their own projects. It is a useful resource and is of interested to those who are thinking of applying to UnLtd youth programmes, those who support young people to run their own social projects and those who want to gain an insight into young social entrepreneurship.


Congratulations to Marie Munro of the Go for Gold programme, winner of the £250 prize draw for the recent UnLtd Research survey.

Marie is a Parent and Teen Coach and Professional Life Coach. She set up the 'Go for Gold' programme to work with teenagers. The aim of this 6-week programme was to teach them how to believe in themselves and take responsibility for their lives. They were taught basic life skills with subjects including self belief, confidence, happiness, relationships and understanding how the choices they make affect their lives.

Being awarded the sum of £3500 by UnLtd allowed Marie to work with over 50 teenagers in groups of 10 within different local secondary schools. Marie found the programme a pleasure to deliver and it was well received by pupils and the teachers who all gave positive feedback. It proved just how much young people want to learn and understand more about themselves and others around them.

Marie would like to see these skills taught to all secondary school pupils to ensure that they leave not only with academic qualifications but the necessary life skills to realise their full potential and live rewarding lives.

Thankyou to all respondents for taking the time to complete the survey!


At UnLtd we believe that research is both exciting and integral to our mission. We use research to learn about social entrepreneurs and gather evidence about the most effective ways we can support them. It is a form of action and a continual learning process. This ensures we enhance the impact of UnLtd awards on social entrepreneurs and in turn, enhance their impact on the worlds in which they work.

UnLtd Research prides itself on delivering research findings which develop UnLtd’s role in supporting social entrepreneurs effectively. Our recent evaluations have generated findings about the role social entrepreneurs play in community cohesion, refugee integration and social deprivation.

We believe research both informs and inspires action and social change. We are committed to sharing our findings to inform public policy, academic thinking, practitioner knowledge and the growth of the sector.

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