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Elevat.Ed Crowdfunding Round 2, April 2026
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Aim
From high school students to junior consultants for global NGOs... Our pilot was a success and now, with your help, we're planning to scale
A Personal, Heartfelt Thank You
To all 44 contributors who backed us in our first Crowdfunder campaign- thank you. Your £5,545 turned 14 students into "junior consultants", and helped deliver crucial strategic support to Takataka Plastics from Uganda, and Step Together from Beirut.
The outcome was a successful pressure-test. Proof that students, given the right training, structure, and support, can provide professional-grade consulting work for NGOs on the other side of the world.
Without your help, the quality and scale of this would not have been possible. You backed us before we had proof, and now that we do, we’re asking for a contribution to help us launch our next product: The Summer Program.
The vision is to run it independently of schools and open Elevat.Ed to high school students globally, so that we can support more NGOs and further push our students ahead of the curve.
Where Your Money Went: Round 1
We believe in full transparency. Your contributions, alongside 2 rounds of grant funding from Edinburgh Innovations, covered the real cost of building and running our pilot program from scratch. Importantly, we would like to mention that the core team has been working on a pro bono basis, and instead of compensation, we've focused moreso on cost offsetting wherever possible. Here is how every pound was spent, grouped into four categories:
What We Built: The Pilot Impact
From September to December 2025, we ran our first-ever program cohort at Frankfurt International School (FIS), ranked Germany's top IB school. The question we set out to answer was simple: can Elevat.Ed deliver real value for both students and the NGOs they support?
The answer, across every metric we measured, was yes!
• 14 students selected from 20 applicants
• 0 drop outs across 12 weeks
• 19 deliverables produced for 2 international NGO clients
• 100% would recommend the Elevat.Ed Program to peers in younger grades
• 93% felt they made a real contribution to their NGO client
• 93% said it increased interest in social impact careers
• 93% found it complements their IB Diploma CAS
Our Two NGO Clients
1. Takataka Plastics (Uganda): A circular economy nonprofit: transforming plastic waste into affordable construction tiles, learning materials, and sporting goods: having collected 87.7 tonnes of plastic and prevented 195 tonnes of CO₂ emissions to date.
Our student team delivered 10 fully developed outputs across three objectives including:
- One of our Team Leaders produced a fully refreshed product catalogue in Takataka's brand style, conducting detailed PET recycling research and creating a step-by-step manufacturing guide demonstrating how PET can be processed into PETG, a 3D-printable plastic, to enable internal prototyping. He also used AI tools to generate product mock-ups and proposed design directions for each concept.
- On the e-commerce front, a team member architected and launched a fully functional Squarespace e-commerce platform, allowing Takataka to sell internationally for the first time.
- Meanwhile, the partnership team identified 12 potential sports teams and organisations as strategic partners for Takataka's recycled footballs and rugby balls, with Gulu City Falcons Rugby Club already secured and several more opportunities now in the pipeline.
2. Step Together (Lebanon): An internationally recognised therapeutic education centre in Beirut, providing education and care for around 200 students with learning difficulties, mental disabilities, and autism, established in 1974.
Our student team delivered 9 fully developed outputs including:
- Students designed the complete "Kindness Tree" Christmas campaign, a targeted fundraising initiative where donors sponsor gifts aligned with the individual Christmas wishes of Step Together's students, producing a full suite of social media assets applying the principle that personalised, story-driven fundraising drives significantly higher engagement.
- The team also mapped and evaluated 15+ potential partners, including NGOs, institutions, and corporates, organising them into a CRM-style system segmented for long-term usability, giving Step Together a replicable pipeline for monetary and in-kind support.
- Additionally, students built a fully functioning Shopify storefront to monetise workshop products, identified viable regional shipping providers suited to the complex Lebanese postal environment, and complemented it with a complex sales tracker for discounts and margin calculations.
What's Coming Next...
The pilot validated our idea, showing that Elevat.Ed works- for students, for NGOs, and for schools. We are now building on that foundation in two concrete ways.
Summer 2026:
Initiating the Summer Intensive Program at FIS. We are proud to announce that we are launching our first-ever Summer Intensive Program at Frankfurt International School this summer. This is our newest product: a condensed, high-impact version of the program designed to run during the school holidays, and our first ever revenue-generating cohort. We will run 2-weeks, with at least 20+ students.
Fall 2026:
Scaling to 3 Schools. We are in advanced conversations and expecting a minimum of 3 schools to join the Elevat.Ed program for the academic year starting in the fall. This will hopefully leverage us from our origins as a single-school operation to a scalable, repeatable model.
NGOs in the pipeline: a Scottish Cancer Charity & a German Plastic Recycling NGO
What This Round Funds: Exact Breakdown
This raise of £6,960 is specifically targeted at launching the Summer Intensive Program at FIS and bridging us into the fall, when schools will be paying for the program directly. Here is where every pound of this round will go:
It Takes A Village...
You believed in us before we had the evidence to back it up, and we hope that everything above gives you the confidence to support us one final time, so that we can elevate this impact together.
Thank you, again, for everything, on behalf of
the Elevat.Ed Team
Funding method
Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made