The ILM Level 3 Award and Certificate in Starting Your Enterprise aims to provide candidates with the essential knowledge and skills required by those starting their own business/enterprise, or a discreet business unit within a larger organisation. This could include a social enterprise, charity or co-operative.

There are no formal entry requirements, but participants will:

• normally seriously be considering starting their own business/enterprise, and have a business/enterprise idea on which to base their development, or be embarking on the management of a distinct business unit within a larger organisation; and
• have appropriate communication and numeracy skills or the opportunity to develop them on the programme. This is likely to be Level 2 Key Skills Literacy and Level 1 Key Skills Numeracy, or their equivalent. Where intending learners do not have this level of literacy and numeracy, Centres may provide support prior to the start of the programme.
  

Candidates may progress to other programmes leading to various business/enterprise start up or development programmes, or leadership and management qualifications at the same or higher levels depending on their individual requirements.