Welcome to the Q3 2025 Roundup!
This quarter marks a milestone for Bridges for Enterprise. It’s been ten years of building bridges between passionate students, professionals, and social entrepreneurs across the globe.
As we look back on a decade of transformative work, we invite all members of our global community to come together for the BfE Global Townhall 2025 on 2 November. The Townhall will be a moment to reflect on our collective impact, reconnect across chapters, and envision the next chapter of BfE’s journey.
After the summer break, BfE chapters are back in full swing, welcoming new members, transitioning leadership roles, and preparing for another year of impact. Meanwhile, our Incubation teams are reviewing and onboarding new ventures for the Autumn Cohort.
Read on to explore highlights from this quarter, opportunities for engagement, and how we’re shaping the future together.
Ore Eni-ibukun
Programme Manager, Bridges for Enterprise
Main Feature: Global Townhall 2025
A Decade of Building Bridges — BfE Global Townhall 2025
For ten years, students and professionals have worked together through Bridges for Enterprise to support social entrepreneurs in emerging markets through pro-bono advisory services.
Over the last decade, we have supported 150+ social enterprises in 15 countries across Sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, South Asia, and Southeast Asia.
As we celebrate this milestone, we invite you to gather with the BfE community across the world to:
Review the impact of our work so far
Connect with other members of the BfE community
Share the vision for the future
The BfE chapters will present a summary of their favourite cases of the season, and the BfE global leadership will share the vision for the future. You don’t want to miss this! We understand that the timing may be a little inconvenient but we really hope you make the time. If you’d like to share a 1-minute video about your BfE experience, or if you have any photos from BfE’s history, please upload them here. See the agenda for the Townhall here.
Date: 2 November 2025
Time: 13:00 (UTC)
Venue: Zoom
Impact Recap: Q3 in Review
This quarter, our global community continued to build momentum:
The chapters returned from the summer break. We hope everyone had some fun and a lot of rest!
We continued the onboarding process for the Autumn Cohort of the Incubation Programme. Look out for the next issue where we will share details of the startups in the Autumn 2025 cohort and the incredible work in their local communities.
We featured inspiring voices of the Humans of BfE
We are excited as we prepare for our largest global gathering yet, the BfE Global Townhall!
Humans of BfE
The best part of BfE has always been the people. Every student, mentor, and entrepreneur brings something unique, and Humans of BfE helps us tell these stories in their own words.
In the spirit of our 10-year anniversary, here are a few stories that continue to inspire us:
Reading these again reminds us why we do what we do, and how far we’ve come together. Would you like to share your BfE story? Send us an email!
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