SERIES: Your Community

S1-S3

Multiple Sessions

Design a Community Project

The final challenge is where the series becomes action. You have mapped opportunities, redesigned public space, created local media, campaigned on an issue and developed a tourism concept. Now choose the strongest idea and turn it into a proposal with stakeholders, actions, evidence and a clear next ask. By the end of this challenge […]

Design a Community Project

Your Mission

Take one idea from the series and turn it into a community project with a real route to action.

You will choose the strongest concept, map the people needed, create an implementation plan, challenge the weak points and pitch a clear next step.

The Shape of This Challenge

Discover

✏️ ️ Notice & question

Explore

️ Investigate & test

Create

✏️ Make & communicate

Reflect

️ Think & apply

Discover

Start by choosing the project with the strongest combination of impact and feasibility.

Step 1

Choose the Project With the Best Chance of Change

️ Portfolio decision · 8–10 mins

We are learning to select a community idea based on evidence and potential impact.

You now have several possible actions: redesign a place, promote something local, campaign on an issue or create a visitor experience.

Your Task

Review your strongest ideas from Challenges 2–5.
Score each for impact, feasibility, evidence, community support and your motivation.
Choose one project.
Write the outcome you want within six months or one year.

I can choose a community project using evidence rather than attachment to the first idea.

→ This sets the focus for the capstone action plan.

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Step 2

Map Who Can Make It Happen

✏️ Stakeholder map · 10–12 mins

We are learning to identify the people and organisations needed to move an idea forward.

Community change normally requires cooperation between people with different roles, resources and priorities.

Your Task

Identify at least six stakeholders.
For each, write what they can contribute and what they may worry about.
Mark who needs to approve, fund, deliver, support or use the project.
Choose the first three people/groups the project team would need to engage.

I can map stakeholders and understand what each needs from the project.

→ This gives your plan a realistic route into the community.

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Explore

Turn the idea into actions and improve it before somebody else challenges it.

Step 3

Build the Action Plan

Choose your route · 12–18 mins

We are learning to turn a community idea into practical steps, resources and measures.

A powerful concept becomes more credible when somebody can see what happens first, next and after that.

Your Task

Complete one planning route.
Create at least six actions in sequence.
Identify resources or permissions needed.
Define at least three measures of success.

⚡ Quick Track

Create a 6-step action plan covering research, stakeholder engagement, prototype/pilot, promotion, delivery and review.

Dig Deeper

Build a phased plan: 0–30 days, 1–3 months, 3–6 months. Add owner, resource and evidence of success for each phase.

I can create a practical implementation route for a community project.

→ This becomes the delivery backbone of the final proposal.

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Step 4

Find the Weak Point Before Somebody Else Does

️ Red-team · 10–12 mins

We are learning to anticipate objections and improve a project before pitching it.

Decision-makers will ask about cost, permission, maintenance, fairness, disruption, evidence and who does the work.

Your Task

Write the five hardest questions somebody could ask about your proposal.
Answer each honestly.
Identify the weakest part of the project.
Change one feature or action to make it stronger.

I can respond to realistic objections and improve my project.

→ This makes the final pitch more credible.

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Create & Share

Create a professional proposal that could be shown to a council, community group, local partnership or business audience.

Step 5

Pitch a Project That Could Actually Happen

✏️ Plan · Present · 35–50 mins

We are learning to combine the strongest work from the series into a persuasive action proposal.

Your capstone should make the audience understand the problem or opportunity, the idea, the evidence and what needs to happen next.

Your Task

State the community opportunity and desired outcome.
Use evidence from at least two earlier challenges.
Show the project concept, stakeholder map and action timeline.
Include barriers, measures of success and one clear next ask.
Choose one output below.

Community Action Proposal

2 pages · 500–650 words + timeline

⏱ 40–50 mins

Package the opportunity, evidence, project, stakeholders, actions, risks and measures.

Community Change Pitch

6 slides · maximum 30 words per slide

⏱ 35–45 mins

Pitch the problem/opportunity, evidence, solution, stakeholders, plan and next ask.

Make This Happen

2 minutes final runtime

⏱ 40–50 mins

Create a campaign-style project pitch designed for a community or decision-making audience.

I can create a professional community change proposal with a credible route to action.

→ This is the capstone output for the Your Community series.

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Step 6

Reflect, Apply, Look Forward

️ Final reflection · 8–10 mins

We are learning to reflect on what it takes to move from noticing a problem to creating change.

Community action is a cycle: notice, research, design, involve people, test, communicate and improve.

Your Task

Answer the prompts.
Write the single next action that would move your project from school work toward reality.
Choose one skill from the series you would use in another real-world project.

Reflect

Which challenge produced the idea with the greatest real-world potential?

Apply

Who would you need to persuade first if you wanted the project to happen?

Look Forward

What would you do differently if you had a real budget and six months to deliver it?

I can explain how evidence, design, communication and leadership work together in community change.

→ Series complete: you have moved from mapping your community to proposing a project that could change it.

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TOOLKIT

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Use public information and teacher-approved research. Do not publish personal information, photograph people without permission, or contact organisations independently unless your teacher has approved it.

Plan

Turn one strong idea from the series into stakeholders, actions, timeline, resources, barriers and measures of success.

Pitch

Use evidence from earlier challenges. A teacher-approved pitch to a real audience is optional; a simulated council/business panel is equally valid.

Create

Use an action proposal, 6-slide change pitch or 2-minute community launch film.

Educator / Parent Notes

Age, Stage and Prior Learning: Designed as the S1–S3 capstone. The project can remain simulated; real contact or delivery is optional and should be school-approved.

Before You Start: Encourage learners to select the strongest idea rather than automatically choosing the most ambitious.

How to Open This: Ask: “What would have to happen on Monday morning for this idea to stop being a school project and start becoming real?”

Scheduling: Best over multiple sessions. Steps 1–2 select and map the project; Steps 3–4 build the implementation logic; Step 5 is the capstone.

If a Pupil Gets Stuck: Provide a stakeholder template and six-step action-plan structure. A simulated panel can replace a real external audience.

For Fast Finishers: Ask learners to add a basic budget, pilot plan, consultation strategy or before/after success dashboard.

Marking Guidance: Look for continuity with earlier evidence, realistic stakeholder roles, concrete actions, honest barriers, measurable outcomes and a persuasive but achievable next ask.

Design a Community Project

Design a Community Project

Discover

Choose the Project With the Best Chance of Change

Map Who Can Make It Happen

Explore

Build the Action Plan

Find the Weak Point Before Somebody Else Does

Create & Share

Pitch a Project That Could Actually Happen

Reflect, Apply, Look Forward

Show What You Have Learned

Plan

Pitch

Create

Show What You Have Learned

Plan

Pitch

Create

TOOLKIT

Plan

Pitch

Create

Educator / Parent Notes

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