DISABLED ENTREPRENEURS UK
Stelios Awards For Disabled Entrepreneurs
Run in partnership with Leonard Cheshire
Victoria Nelson , founder of Deaf4Deaf wins £30,000 , Stelios Awards for Disabled Entrepreneurs in the UK 2019
Sign language therapist wins £30,000 national entrepreneur award The founder of the UK’s first sign language counselling service, Deaf4Deaf, has won the top prize at the Stelios Awards for Disabled Entrepreneurs in London. Victoria Nelson, who founded Deaf4Deaf in 2016,...
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Many congratulations to all the winners who will be taking home 100,000 pounds in prizes! Thank you to everyone for applying!
Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou & Leonard Cheshire congratulate all this year’s winners! Top 5 winners are Sarah Griffiths www.wheeliemomma.co.uk, Steve Hoyler www.adiaccess.co.uk RoomMate, Victoria Nelson www.deaf4deaf.com, Mike Wood Dinghies for Disabled & Sophia Wyatt www.sophiawyatt.co.uk all winning 10,000 pounds with a...
Read MoreBroken all records! 87 applications received for this year’s Stelios Awards for Disabled Entrepreneurs in partnership with Leonard Cheshire.
On behalf of Sir Stelios and Neil Heslop, CEO of Leonard Cheshire, we want to thank everyone for applying to this year’s Stelios Awards for Disabled Entrepreneurs in the UK. We are very excited to have received 87 applications, all...
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Stelios Awards 2019, just over 2 weeks left to apply, double the number of awards…
Biggest ever prizes for star business people. It has been 13 years since Sir Stelios set up the Stelios Award for Disabled Entrepreneurs with disability charity Leonard Cheshire, to celebrate and support the hard work of disabled people who have...
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10 weeks until deadline for UK Awards (10 Sept), the biggest pot of money for our winners totalling £100k!
Biggest ever prizes for star business people. It has been 13 years since Sir Stelios set up the Stelios Award for Disabled Entrepreneurs with disability charity Leonard Cheshire, to celebrate and support the hard work of disabled people who have...
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The Stelios Awards for disabled entrepreneurs UK 2019
It has been 13 years since I set up the Stelios Award for Disabled Entrepreneurs with disability charity Leonard Cheshire, to celebrate and support the hard work of disabled people who have set up their own businesses. We’ve been...
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About the UK Awards
The award recognises the exceptional spirit and business ability of disabled entrepreneurs.
I am very passionate about encouraging an enterprising spirit throughout British culture. Helping to remove the barriers that disabled people face in business is an important part of this.
– Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou
The Stelios UK Award Prizes
This year, we are giving out the biggest ever pot of prize money for our winners, totalling £100,000! Alongside a top prize of £30,000, and four prizes of £10,000, four awards of £5,000 are also up for grabs. For the first time, we’re also offering a special Judge’s Prize of up to £10,000 for businesses that don’t quite meet the awards’ criteria but show great promise – such as entries made on behalf of disabled people for legal reasons.
Who can apply?
Anyone based in the UK. We have applications from all arenas: from accessible wheelchair suitcases to pottery, mental health apps and adapted ice cream vans. Past winners have been drawn from the travel agency, building and IT sectors as well as businesses specialising in disability/mobility aids and sports.
Criteria for Entries
- The award is open to disabled applicants* over the age of 18
- Operating in the UK only
- The award is open to registered and not-yet registered companies, charities and social enterprises
- A disabled entrepreneur must own at least 50% of the company
- The company must be at most seven years old
- The applicant must have, or plans to have, an active online presence
- Past winners and/or applicants are welcome to re-apply. Many winners have applied before
* We use the Equality Act 2010 definition of disability, which means this prize is for all disabled entrepreneurs / people with a long term health condition. If you have any questions about your eligibility, please feel free to email steliosaward@leonardcheshire.org for further information.