Enterprise activities offer opportunities to learn and develop key entrepreneurial characteristics. This unit aims to provide learners with a broad introduction for preparing to undertake an enterprise activity. The unit will help learners to find out and explain details of an enterprise idea, including how to develop a product or service and assess some of the potential risks involved.

Learners will be expected to:

• Understand how to choose a viable enterprise activity
• Draw up a plan for an enterprise activity
• Understand the risks involved in running the enterprise activity.

Guided learning hours: 10
Credit value: 1

The aim of this unit is to provide learners with the opportunity to carry out an enterprise activity. This unit will help learners understand the importance of having a strategy for an enterprise activity, dealing with money and customers correctly, as well as developing the ability to evaluate the success of their activity and review their personal involvement.

Learners will be expected to:

• Be able to provide a strategy to ensure the success of an enterprise activity
• Be able to complete an enterprise activity using appropriate skills and procedures
• Be able to evaluate the success of the enterprise activity
• Know how to review their personal involvement in an enterprise activity.

Guided learning hours: 10
Credit value: 1

In this unit, learners will learn how to choose and make an appropriate product or item, plan how to make the product or item and evaluate how the product or item was made, making suggestions for changes to their plan for future product manufacture.

Learners will be expected to:

• Understand how to plan the manufacture of a product or item
• Understand the new skills required to make the product or item
• Be able to produce the product or item safely
• Be able to evaluate the product or item produced.

Guided learning hours: 10
Credit value: 1