BiG Community Challenge resources for teams

Resources to help you on your BiG Community Challenge journey from getting your ideas together to putting your plan into action and writing your journal! Get inspiration and download templates to help you develop and manage your project

Student workbook

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The project is broken up into multiple steps, and this workbook will lead you through the process to support you to develop your BiG Social Action idea. It will also help you identify specific skills you will be using and developing as you go.

Download the BiG Community Challenge workbook (pdf, 992kb)

Inspiration station

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Check out our resources for some inspiration from past BiG teams and some of Sheffield’s brilliant organisations!

Inspiration station

Getting started

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Pre survey

Take this survey at the start of your BiG Community Challenge journey.

Take the pre survey
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1. Get your team together

Teamwork is all about working cooperatively with others, taking responsibility and supporting each other to achieve a shared goal – in this case, developing your social action plan and making a difference!

Download the guide to getting a team together (pptx, 7.01mb)
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2. Choosing your community

A community can be made up of people living in a particular area . A community can be made up of people who have similar interests, characteristics, beliefs, or backgrounds.

Download the guide to choosing your community (pptx, 4.25mb)
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3. What is your BiG Social Action idea?

Social action involves people coming together to tackle an issue, support other people, or improve their local area. For the BiG Community Challenge we want you to identify issues in your community that your team are passionate about, and where you think you could make a positive difference.

Download the guide to developing your idea (pptx, 5.78mb)
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4. What is your BiG Social Action plan?

Problem solving is about generating ideas and evaluating those options – in this case, thinking of different solutions to your problem, working with your community to find out what they want, and deciding which ideas are best.

Download the guide to developing your plan (pptx, 5.05mb)
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5. Take action

Aiming high is the ability to set clear, tangible goals and devise a robust route to achieving them – in this case, effective planning, setting goals for yourself and your team and knowing what doing well looks like!

Download the guide to taking action (pptx, 7.37mb)

Journaling and post survey

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Reflective journal

An opportunity to reflect on your Social Action project and your own learning. 

Download the reflective journal template (pptx,4.58mb)
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Introduction to journaling

Produced by the Careers Collective for the entrants of the BiG Community Challenge. Sponsored by Henry Boot.

Watch the introduction to journaling video
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Social Action template

A template to give your details about your team and answer the questions "What?", "Why?", "Who?", "Where?" and "When?" about your idea.

Download the Social Action template (.pptx, 3.54mb)
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Post-survey

Take this survey at the end of your BiG Community Challenge journey.

Take the post survey