Anjool Maldé Trust Young Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2023

Our award is seeking to reward those making their mark in social enterprise and celebrate the success of young entrepreneurs.

Are you someone making a positive difference to our society and aged between 18 and 29?

Yes?

Then we want to hear from you!

Our award is seeking to reward those making their mark in social enterprise and celebrate the success of young entrepreneurs. 

The winner of this prestigious award, now in its 5th year, will receive a £1000 prize and coverage of their success across the Anjool Maldé Memorial Trust and Localgiving website, as well as inclusion in a widely trailed press release from the Trust. 

Anyone aged 18-29 may apply, if they and their organisation or initiative are based in the United Kingdom. 

Deadline: Applications must be received by 17:00 on Wednesday 28th June 2023

Eligibility: Aged between 18 and 29 and based in the UK; founder of a social enterprise, charity or project focusing on a social goal. NB – those applying should not already be an awardee from Innovate UK’s Young Innovator Scheme.

What you need to do: Entry is easy and only take a few minutes. Submit your entry via the link below to nominate today:

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Judging criteria:

      • Impact - what difference are you making to our society? 
      • Value - how much success have you had so far?
      • Measurement - how are you measuring your success in order to maximise the impact you have?

 

About the Anjool Maldé trust

The charity rewards and inspires young adults to ‘do good, do well’ in their life and career It commemorates the life of Anjool Maldé (1984-2009) - known as Jools to his friends and colleagues.

Jools was a bright young man who lost his life tragically, two days before his 25th birthday. Many admirers wished for a lasting legacy celebrating his qualities - a generous, helpful, enterprising and innovative young man.The Anjool Maldé Trust was set up in 2010 to turn this vision into reality. By the start of 2023, some 140 of the UK's brightest and talented best graduate-age young adults had been rewarded for their exemplary achievements. You can see more on the Trust here.

The winner of the Anjool Maldé Young Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2022 was Chamiah Dewey (pictured above), the founder of the UK’s first clothing brand for people of short stature and/or Dwarfism. 

Speaking at the announcement, judge Tom Latchford, Chairman of the Localgiving Foundation stated: “I was so impressed by Chamiah's unique blend of creativity and social conscience. Her stunning fashion designs are already empowering an under-represented group to feel beautiful and dignified.With her men's collection due for release, and plenty of fashion shows and festivals on the horizon, the future looks bright for Chamiah Dewey Fashion, as well as the short stature people this brilliant business helps to celebrate."

A delighted Chamiah ( @ChamiahDewey ) told us: “As social entrepreneurs, we often work alone, without much guidance or assistance, so to be recognised for my extensive work for the short stature community is what keeps me going! Until now, the short stature and Dwarfism community has been forgotten about and ignored by the fashion industry: we at Chamiah Dewey Fashion are here to change that, and with awards such as this one we are able to continue our work to improve social equality and produce positive representations of little people to the mainstream media. I am so thrilled to be awarded the Anjool Maldé Young Social Entrepreneur award 2022!”

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