Presented by ACU Co-Lab

The Social Enterprise Series is a 8-week in-depth learning program designed to educate future global changemakers about the practical components of establishing or growing a thriving social enterprise.

Our industry experts will walk you through the key components of building an enterprise that has a positive social impact, and you can put your new skills to work by crafting a video pitch for the chance to win the Social Enterprise Award: $10,000 to kickstart your project.

The Social Enterprise Series cost is fully subsidised and open to university students, staff and the broader community. Topics are delivered via livestream to a national audience.

Delivered by StartSomeGood Pty Ltd

Workshops and dates

Attend the full program to be in the best position to develop a winning pitch for the Social Enterprise Award or choose specific workshops directly relevant to your project.

Social Enterprise Award 2025

Attend three or more workshops and you will be eligible to enter the Social Enterprise Award.

The Award recognises an individual or team who have developed a novel social enterprise idea and are at any stage of development, from idea stage to market. Your idea may be for a business that sells a physical product, or one that offers a service.

The winning video pitch entry receives:

• $10,000 prize
• Promotion of the winning business/project through ACU Co-Lab's community ecosystem

Key dates

Opening date: 9am AEDT on Wednesday 16 April 2025

Closing date: 11:59pm AEST on Sunday 8 June 2025

How to enter

The Social Enterprise Award is open to any eligible entrant who attends at least three Social Enterprise workshops. To participate, you must lodge your application online.

Submitting your application

To enter the Competition, Eligible Entrants must during the Competition Period:

1. submit an entry via the online application form; and
2. submit a video pitch at the same time as lodging an entry, where the video length must be no more than 3 minutes.

The Eligible Entry will be judged by a panel of judges appointed at the sole discretion of ACU and the selection of the winning entry will be based on the highest scoring Eligible Entry based on the following judging criteria, as determined by the judges:

An entry must be based on a social enterprise, as determined by the following definition - Social enterprises are organisations that have a social purpose or mission embedded into the DNA of the business to directly address social, cultural and environmental needs; and who earn the majority of their revenue through trade.

Presentation skills - 20 points

1. Storytelling and passion of delivery
2. Professional manner

Pitch content - 70 points

3. Clarity by which you have outlined the problem and your solution.
4. The innovative nature of your solution.
5. The addressable market size.
6. Your strategy for taking the idea to market.
7. Identification of competition.
8. How robust your proposed business and revenue models are.
9. Demonstrable skills required to build and execute a solution, and noticeable passion for delivering the outcome.

Audio/video quality - 10 points

10. quality of the audio and video presentation

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