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Reaching for the Starlings: Entrepreneurs to watch in 2020

Kristina Salceanu

Advent of Change

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Kristina Salceanu is the founder of Advent of Change, a multi-product retailer centered around an advent calendar with a difference. Instead of chocolate or gifts, each window donates to a different charity.

Nat Mady

Hackney Herbal

Nat Mady is the founder of Hackney Herbal, a social enterprise on a mission to improve people’s health and wellbeing through herbal tea. It runs a wide range of training, and mental wellbeing events and workshops.

Gavin & Sally Murray

Just-Ice

Gavin and Sally Murray are the founders of Just-Ice, a premium ice cream shop which gives employment opportunities to survivors of human trafficking. It only uses fair trade and natural ingredients.

Ben Sadler

Alive and Kicking

Ben Sadler is the CEO of Alive and Kicking, the world’s only not-forprofit ball manufacturer. It creates jobs for disadvantaged people in sub-Saharan Africa to produce hand-stitched, quality balls.

Mona & Shaz Shah

Harry Specters

Mona and Shaz Shah are the co-founders of Harry Specters, an award-winning chocolate company that provides free training and employment opportunities to young people with autism.

Sally Wilton

Lexi Cinema

Sally Wilton is the founder of Lexi Cinema, the UK’s first social enterprise independent boutique digital cinema. Staffed by passionate, local volunteers, Lexi donates 100% of its profits to The Sustainability Institute.

Karen Williams

Buddy Bag Foundation

Karen Williams is the founder of Buddy Bag Foundation, a charity which donates luggage and supplies to children in emergency care. Each Buddy Bag contains toiletries, pyjamas, underwear and socks.

Hoda Judah Armani

InHouse Records

Hoda Judah Armani is the founder of InHouse Records, a fully functional record label operating in prisons. It works with offenders in prison to aid rehabilitation and provide employment.

James McConnell & Hannah Henshaw

Naturespy

James McConnell and Hannah Henshaw are the founders of Naturespy, a social enterprise that seeks to reconnect people to local green spaces and wildlife, and aid wildlife research.

Cemal Ezel

Change Please

Cemal Ezel is the founder of Change Please, a coffee brand that tackles homelessness. It’s a social enterprise that is staffed by the homeless, to help the homeless. As well as giving them a job, they provide a London living wage.

Zakia Moulaoui

Invisible Cities

Zakia Moulaoui is the founder of Invisible Cities, a social enterprise that trains people who have experienced homelessness to become walking tour guides in their own city. They run community events in the local area.

Pranav Chopra

Nemi Teas

Pranav Chopra is the founder of Nemi Teas, a fair trade loose leaf tea company that uses plasticfree, biodegradable packaging. It also offers employment opportunities to refugees.

Meg Doherty

Fat Macy’s

Meg Doherty is the founder of Fat Macy’s, a social enterprise serving delicious food and dining experiences at supper clubs, events and offices in London. It uses its profits to fund a housing deposit scheme.

Harun Master

Jerry Bottle

Harun Master is the founder of Jerry Bottle; reusable, steel water bottles. Profits are used to fund clean water projects in India and Tanzania. The bottle has the coordinates of the related water project on the bottom.

Dr Mick Jackson

WildHearts Group

Dr Mick Jackson is the founder of WildHearts Group, a portfolio of businesses creating global change. From office supplies to an awardwinning entrepreneurial programme, all profits go to its charity.

FOOD ENTREPRENEURS

Jonathan & Alex Petrides

allplants

allplants, a 100% plantbased food and meal subscription service. The pair created the business to encourage people to live a vegan life in order to protect the future of the planet.

Hannah Adams & Jen Henry

Naked Dough

Based in Camden Town, Naked Dough offers a ‘pint of dough’ and party packs made with fresh, handmade dough. It also sells ‘make your own’ kits for customers.

Meg & Jonathan Chapman

RawHalo

RawHalo is an organic raw chocolate brand made from ethicallysourced, plant ingredients. Having started with hand deliveries to local, organic stores.

Paul Brown

BOL Foods

BOL Foods, a plantbased ready meal brand designed for ‘time-poor foodies’. Its dinner boxes, soups, veg pots and salad jars offer a plant-based twist on British favourites.

Emilie Vanpoperinghe & Deepak Ravindran

Oddbox

Oddbox is a sustainable fruit and veg box service that uses ‘wonky’ and surplus produce. Based in London, it delivers boxes to homes and offices directly from farms.

Adam & Drew Jones

Tattu

Tattu is a Chineseinspired restaurant and bar with locations across the UK. Tattu combines contemporary Chinese cuisine, fusing traditional flavours with modern cooking methods.

Adam Wills & Jian-Peng Then

Crosstown Doughnuts

Crosstown Doughnuts is a quirky range of doughnuts, freshly made by hand every day and are available through gift boxes or at live events.

Olly Hiscocks

Olly’s Olives

Olly’s Olives is a range of olive-based snacks sold in supermarkets and stores right across the country. Olly’s Olives products are also available on Ocado, Amazon and on easyJet.

James Averdieck

The Coconut Collaborative

The Coconut Collaborative is a range of snack and dessert products that use coconut milk and cream instead of cow’s milk. It makes Great Taste award-winning dairy-free yoghurts and desserts.

Dafna Bonas

Indie Bay Snacks

Indie Bay Snacks is an award-winning snack brand that offers plenty of health benefits. Its vegan-friendly, crunchy, chocolate pretzels contain natural ingredients and no trans fat.

Brad Stevens

Pizza Punks

Pizza Punks is a pizza restaurant based in Belfast, Glasgow and Newcastle. With branding and toppings inspired by punk culture, Pizza Punks creates “anarchy in the oven.”

David Knibbs & Lydia Smith

The Tofoo Co

The Tofoo Co is a range of tofu-based food products. Stocked by supermarkets and stores across the country, it also offers recipes to help customers achieve a meat-free diet.

Harriot Pleydell-Bouverie

Mallow & Marsh

Mallow & Marsh, a chocolate-covered marshmallow snack. Stocked in over 3,000 stores across the UK, they are available in bars or sharing bags. They take four days to make.

Freddie Gore Browne & Luke Canvin

PRIME Bar

Prime Bar is a range of protein snacks made with grass-fed beef, fruits and peppers. Naturally dairy and gluten-free, PRIME bars are low sugar.

Matteo Ferrari & Nick Croft-Simon

White Rabbit Pizza Co

White Rabbit Pizza Co is a range of vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free pizzas that keep the authenticity of Italian pizza alive. The pair met while working at the White Rabbit pub, Oxford.

DRINK ENTREPRENEURS

Nicola Hart & Sam Clark

Agua De Madre

Agua De Madre is a natural, sparkling lowalcohol water kefir. Its drinks are made from elemental Tibicos Mother Culture discovered over 2,000 years ago.

Joelle Drummond & Sarah McNena

Drop Bear Beer Co

Drop Bear Beer Co,is a low-alcohol craft beer that vows to ‘push the boundaries.’ The pair started out with just one big saucepan and a jam thermometer.

Paddy Cavanagh-Butler & Charlie Hobhouse

Punchy Drinks

Punchy Drinks, a range of canned, natural fruit punch drinks. It offers ‘Hard Punch’ alcohol and ‘Soft Punch’ alcohol-free options. All are glutenfree and low in sugar.

Tom Hutchings & Dave Seymour

Alive and Kicking

Brew By Numbers is a microbrewery based in Southwark in London, met while rock climbing in China. They have created a range of over 350 different craft beers.

Tom Jordan & Jesse Wilson

Jubel

Jubel is a gluten-free, vegan and naturally infused craft beer brand. It is stocked in over 600 stores in four countries with a lower ABV than most craft beers.

Ben & Tamara Arbib

Rebel Kitchen

Rebel Kitchen is a range of healthy alternatives to cow’s milk, milkshakes and coconut water. All its products are organic and plant-based and are free from refined sugars and additives.

Ellie Webb

Caleno

Caleno is a tropical, non-alcoholic drink inspired by Colombian spirt. After a trip visiting her family’s South American heartland, Ellie spent a year in her kitchen experimenting.

Stuart Forsyth & William Rixon

Minor Figures

Minor Figures is a brand of long-life milk and coffee goods. Along with a range of quirky merch, they offer long-life oat milk, chai tea concentrate and cold brew coffees.

Daniel Khoury, Olivia Ferdi & Rory Casey

TRIP

TRIP is a range of CBDinfused light, sparkling drinks. Each canned drink contains 15mg full spectrum CBD and zero sugar. It contains natural ingredients to boost focus.

Josh White, Ariel Booker & Perry Alexander Fielding

CanO Water

CanO Water is the still and sparkling water brand created in response to the damaging impact that plastic bottles have on the environment.

Rich Goldsmith & Charlie Leet-Cook

MOJU

MOJU is a range of cold-pressed juice shots. MOJU’s shots are designed to deliver vitality and energy, with nutrient-dense and natural ingredients.

Hugh Thomas & Joe Benn

Ugly Drinks

Ugly Drinks is a range of sugar-free sparkling drinks. Each of its flavours are made with real fruit to give an authentic taste, and are made without sugar.

Duncan O’Brien & Dan Broughton

Dalston’s Soda Co

Dalston’s Soda Co is a brand of alcohol-free gin and tonic drinks. Its flavours are created using quality, real ingredients and less sugar than mainstream fizzy drinks.

Kara Rosen

Plenish+

Plenish+ is a range of organic, plant-based juices and milks. Plenish+ products are packed full of natural ingredients to offer the best possible health reward, and they taste great.

Pritesh Mody

World of Zing

World of Zing, a brand of mocktails and cocktails made using the finest spirits, handmade liqueurs and bitters. They sell sauces and salts, bottled cocktails and pre-batch cocktails.

YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS

Oliver Nicolini, Adrian Frankin & Anders Krohn

Aula

Aula is a social learning platform that works with universities to make it easy for educators to engage students, even when they’re not on campus.

Nathan Perry & James Lacy

Denzel’s

The duo came together with the help of Nathan’s dog Denzel to create healthy snacks for dogs based on human health trends, they are now sold in over 600 stores.

Alex & Tiff Burns

LuckyTrip

Creating handcrafted gin from start to finish, the two brothers and two sisters opened a distillery next door to the family brewery in their home town of Cheltenham.

Bejay Mulenga

Bejay Mulenga

Beejay’s most recent venture, Supa Talent, is a fast-growing Training and Employer Brand Consultancy. Supa Talent helps companies work on, and deliver, their diversity campaigns.

Omari McQueen

Dipalicious

Omari started Dipalicious at eight years old after launching a YouTube channel where he filmed himself making his very own vegan pizza. He now has a selection of dips, snacks and juices.

Sarah Ashcroft

SLA the Label

Starting off as fashion blogger ‘That Pommie Girl,’ with a growing social media reach, a successful YouTube channel and campaigns, she launched her own label in 2019.

Phoebe Hugh

Brolly

Brolly, a London-based AI-driven insurance assistant. Brolly has partnerships with some of the major UK insurance companies including AXA and LV=.

Gavin Bell

Gavin Bell

Gavin speaks to audiences of more than 300 people, and has attracted 2.5 million views across social media on how to grow a business through digital marketing and advertising.

Anna Lowe

Smartify

Smartify, a multi awardwinning app which helps people make meaningful connections with art. Described by the New Scientist as ‘the Shazam and Spotify of art.

Rafael Michali & Renato Circi

Caura

Caura founders use biosensing technology and analytics through a continuous and effortless tracker for glucose and lactate to optimise users training regimes.

Amna Akhtar & Kiran Kaur

GirlDreamer

GirlDreamer is an empowerment platform for the next generation of women of colour. The idea for the business started between the two friends in 2012.

Zanna van Dijk & Natalie Glaze

Stay Wild Swim

Stay Wild Swim, a premium swimwear brand which uses regenerated ocean plastic to create their own pieces.

Hugo Tilmouth & Hakeem Buge

ChargedUp

ChargedUp is the UK’s largest phone charging network with 1000 power bank vending machines in venues nationwide. No one ever has to run out of battery again.

Charlotte Pearce

Inkpact

Charlotte wanted to bring thoughtful human interaction into business communications. Inkpact allows brands to connect with their customers through sending handwritten notes.

Riccardo Iannucci-Dawson

YourKeys

Yourkeys is the first platform to offer a completely integrated solution to accelerate the time to exchange whilst giving every stakeholder the ability to track the purchase.

FAMILY BUSINESS ENTREPRENEURS

Jacqui, Hollie & Amelia Brooks

Audenza

Audenza is a homeware boutique which sells quirky furniture, art and decorative pieces designed with the purpose of adding ‘edge, style and interest to people’s homes’.

Kevin & Elizabeth Cole

Cole & Co

Cole & Co, a luxury range of original, fragrant products such as candles and soaps, which have contributed to the company being recognised as a household Welsh brand.

Alex & Tiff Burns

LuckyTrip

LuckyTrip is a travel app backed by Lastminute. com founder Brent Hoberman. LuckyTrip allows users to set their budget and leaves the destination up to the app.

Harriet Hastings & Stevie Congdon

Biscuiteers

Biscuiteers, a stylish and personalised gifting solution under the ethos of ‘why send flowers when you can send Biscuiteers?’. Every single biscuit is made by hand.

Wally & Debbie Fry

Fry Family Food

Fry Family Food is a nutritious plant-based food company that crafts meals to look, taste and feel like meat. His wife, and inspiration for the business, Debbie joined soon after launch.

Thom & James Elliot

Pizza Pilgrims

Pizza Pilgrims, which serves slow-proved Neapolitan pizza in its 12 pizzerias and at events across the UK, was inspired during a pilgrimage across Italy.

Arminder & Gurminder Dhillon

Boot Buddy

Boot Buddy is a portable device used to clean sports footwear quickly and easily, even removing the most stubborn of dirt. Inspired by their childhood bringing mud into their house.

Naynesh, Jake & Neeyantee Karia

Jake and Nayns

Jake and Nayns is a convenient snack company that harnesses the vibrance of taste, appearance and smell of street food. It sells in stores right across the UK.

Sam Feller & Laura Jackson

Popcorn Shed

Popcorn Shed is the UK’s first super-premium gourmet popcorn brand. Passionate about the potential of the snack by mixing popcorn with nuts, chocolate and dried fruit.

Rupert Smith & Marita Lietz

Bubble&

Bubble& is a restaurant centred on the traditional English dish bubble and speak. Winners of two Great Taste Awards, they are also the stars of BBC’s Million Pound Menu.

Piers Buck & Taslim Ho

Little Freddie

After finding baby foods didn’t meet what they wanted for their son Freddie, the pair set out to create an alternative that is ‘always organic, always nutritious and always delicious’.

Hannah, Cleo & Kitty Sadler

Snugburys

Snugburys, a luxury ice cream shop based at their family farm in Cheshire. Launched in 1986 by their parents, Snugburys offers a range of more than 55 flavours.

Ben & Rebecca Reynolds

Carousel Lights

Carousel Lights, a neon lighting company that offers bespoke creations to customers of all shapes and sizes. The UK’s only official “Cool Brand” for lighting.

Dan Marsden & Melanie Paradise

Lounge Underwear

Lounge is a lingerie and loungewear brand. Dan and Melanie wanted to create a brand that offered comfortable underwear without compromising on sex appeal.

Angela Morris & Keith Spilsbury

The Wool Packaging Company

The Wool Packaging Company and Woolcool is a wool-based superior insulated packaging for temperature-sensitive goods.

HEALTH & FITNESS ENTREPRENEURS

Hellen Bowey

Alcove

Alcove is a care-tech company which provides the installation of motion sensors and software to enable elderly and disabled people to help them live independently.

Dan Reardon & Sam Decombel

FitnessGenes

FitnessGenes is a DNAtesting service designed to provide tailored and unique nutrition and fitness guidance by analysing people’s genetic information.

Sumi Wang

SunTech UK

SunTech UK, the company behind eFOLDi, a folding, portable mobility scooter she invented alongside her father after he became disabled in 2012.

Alice Liveing

Alice Liveing

Alice Liveing is a health and wellbeing influencer, bestselling author and personal trainer who rose to fame with her series of Clean Eating Alice recipe and fitness books.

Dr Kerstyn Comley & Suzi Godson

MeeTwo

MeeTwo is an alternative, safe social media platform designed to improve the wellbeing of young people in the UK. Fully moderated to eliminate judgement.

Guy Hacking, Tom Stancliffe & Robert Martineau

Tribe

Tribe, a brand of 100% natural, vegan and gluten-free energy and recovery products. Incuding protein and energy bars and shakes.

Jennifer Irvine

Balance Box

Balance Box is a subscription food plan service which delivers all your meal requirements to your door. Designed for weight loss, the boxes are freshly prepared by nutritionists.

Elettra Bianchi Dennerlein, Dr Elena Touroni, Dr Tom Pennybacker & Vasileios Touronis

My Online Therapy

An online platform which gives users easy one-to-one access to psychological therapies.

Galahad & Asher Clark

Vivobarefoot

Vivobarefoot is a footwear brand designed to end the ‘shoe-shaped public health scandal’ and ‘reclaim your feet from the shoe industry’. Design is based on scientific and physiological evidence.

Tania Boler & Alexander Asseily

ELVIE

Elvie, the producer of the world’s first silent and wearable breast pump. Focused on female-first innovation. They also produce the Trainer for pelvic floor.

Charlotte Roach

Rabble

Rabble is a sports club with a difference. Inspired by playground games like British Bulldog and capture the flag, Rabble mixes high intensity training with fun and social vibes.

Will, Jack & Sam Latus & Ben Thoy

Whey Box

Whey Box is a no nasties, vegan and gluten-free whey protein brand created with three things in mind: convenience, variety and taste.

Jim Law

Find a Player

Player is an app designed to take away the pain of finding and playing sport. It allows users to find teams, clubs or other individuals and build a sporting network.

Ben Barker & Sam Hill

Run an Empire

Run an Empire, an appbased strategy game powered by runners and walkers. Turning runs into adventures, Run an Empire allows users to conquer new virtual land and compete against rivals.

Dan Williams & Sam Kitching

WIT Fitness

WIT Fitness is a training and lifestyle brand and multi-brand retailer. WIT offers training consumers the selection they want and the choice they deserve.

CREATIVE INDUSTRIES ENTREPRENEURS

Anthony Geffen

Alchemy Immersive

Alchemy Immersive is a BAFTA-award-winning company that has created virtual experiences for Titanic Belfast and David Attenborough, using augmented, virtual and mixed reality, and AI.

Hector Macleod

Glassworks

Glassworks, an awardwinning visual effects company with over 20 years’ experience working across advertising, films, streaming content, music videos and digital media.

Rupert Rixon

Perspective Pictures

Perspective Pictures, started as a YouTube channel when Rupert was 16, is now a digitalfirst video agency that creates cinematic stores for brands in the digital and social age.

Alex Book, Simon Hobbs & Jonathan Meggitt

Arcade

Arcade is an augmented reality practice that brings real-world experiences to life through play. Arcade has created experiences for the Welsh National Opera. and Sea Life London.

Amy Williams & Daniel Winterstein

Good Loop

Good Loop is an ethical advertising company. It never forces someone to engage with an ad, but donates 50% of the advertisers’ revenue to a relevant, charitable cause.

Matt Mower, Jude Ower & Martin Grenfell

Playmob

Playmob, a developer of ‘small but mighty’ minigames based on science and fun. Playmob reaches and engages audiences through the games they already play every day.

Jane Tranter & Julie Gardner

Bad Wolf

Bad Wolf, is an independent production company based in Cardiff, London and LA. Bad Wolf recently led the production of His Dark Materials.

Tom Robinson & Jon Cockley

Handsome Frank

Handsome Frank, an illustration agency that represents some of the world’s leading contemporary artists. It has worked with some of the world’s biggest brands.

Emily Forbes

Seenit

Seenit is an enterprise video crowdsourcing platform that allows its users to direct employees through an app. It enables customers to curate, film, edit and publish video content.

Alex Jobling & Maddy Raven

Burstimo

Burstimo is a marketing agency dedicated to musicians. Utilising modern approaches, Burstimo develops full end-to-end strategies to help artists secure greater exposure.

Kostas Koukoravas & Michael Michelis

intelistyle

intelistyle is an artificial styling service for fashion retailers. Addressing the needs of people who want styling advice online or in-store.

Karoline Gross

Smartzer

Smartzer is a video platform that allows audiences to interact with and shop for products seen in its content. Users simply click on a product while watching a video to explore and purchase.

Dr Gareth Edwards

Cubic Motion

Cubic Motion is a real-time model-based computer vision and digital animation agency. It brings ultra-realistic characters to life in films, broadcast media and immersive technologies.

Saul Klein, Yonatan Raz-Fridman & Alex Klein

Kano

Kano is a platform that teaches people of all ages and abilities to code, using Star Wars, Disney Frozen 2 and Harry Potter-themed coding kits.

Joe Steel & Ross Dannmayr

Visualskies

Visualskies is an aerial tech company providing HD 3D mapping, photography, video and visual effects for the film, TV, heritage and construction industries.

DISRUPTIVE ENTREPRENEURS

Alex Chesterman OBE

Cazoo

Cazoo is the new way to buy used cars. Customers browse and make their purchases online with the vehicle delivered to their door within 72 hours.

Virginia Gardiner

Loowatt

Loowatt is a futureproof, patented technology provides a high-quality waterless flush that locks in odour and disease without using scarce and highvalue water.

Ben Knowles

Pedal Me

Pedal Me is a pedalpowered passenger and cargo service. Currently operating in central London, Pedal Me offers a fun, fast, convenient and clean way of travelling in the city.

Safia Qureshi

CupClub

CupClub is an end-toend service that replaces single-use plastic cups with reusable alternatives. CupClub picks up used cups, cleans and returns them to reduce the use of single-use plastics by 47%

Tom Adeyoola

Metail

Metail is the creator of the EcoShot plugin, which makes it possible to simulate 3D garments on photographs of real people with ease. Designers get a quick sense of what their designs will look like.

Stephen Fitzpatrick

Vertical Aerospace

Vertical Aerospace is a tech company revolutionising the way people fly by making it personal, on-demand and carbon-free. Dubbed the ‘Uber of the skies.’

Felix Leuschner & Matt Varughese

Drover

Drover is an alternative to leasing, hiring or buying a car. It combines the car, maintenance, breakdown cover and insurance into a flexible monthly payment.

Stephanie Alys, Shanshan Xu, Soumyadip Rakshit & Robert Weekly

Mystery Vibe

Mystery Vibe is, a company that invents pleasure products that combine the best of humanity and technology.

Portman Wills & Peter Briffett

Wagestream

Wagestream is a financial wellbeing platform that gives staff access to wages as they’re earned, actively encourages saving, reduces workplace stress and boosts engagement.

Ben Peters, John Redford, Simon Walker, Stan Boland & Steve Allpress

Five AI

Five AI develops software to power shared, selfdriving vehicle services across Europe.

Husayn Kassai, Eamon Jubbawy & Ruhul Amin

Onfido

Onfido is an ID verification tool that uses biometric technology to allow users to verify themselves online anywhere, anytime.

Chris Sheldrick, Jack Waley-Cohen & Mohan Ganeesalingam

what3words

what3words is a company that uses three randomly assigned words to locate and identify every 3m square in the world.

Laila Dupuy

Kitchin Table

Kitchin Table, a coworking platform that allows users to host and book workspaces at their homes. Designed for female freelancers and sole traders who are tired of working at home alone

Philip Mundy, Barney Gilbert & Lydia Yarlott

Pando

Pando is a communication platform for the health and social care industries. It connects healthcare workers so they can share important information quickly and securely.

Stephen Voller

Zap&Go

Zap&Go is a tech company developing the next generation of batteries beyond lithium. It excludes all rare earth materials and anything that can catch fire.

ECO ENTREPRENEURS

Elena Dieckmann & Ryan Robinson

Aeropowder

Aeropowder is an award-winning start-up creating novel materials from the 10,000 tonnes of waste feathers produced every day.

Anna Foster

E.L.V. DENIM

By minimising waste, water and carbon footprint, E.L.V. Denim gives a second life to fabrics that would be destined for landfill, with the aim to transform discarded vintage jeans.

Eliza Walter

Lylie’s

Lylie’s is a sustainable jewellery business made from Salvaged Gold and Salvaged Silver. It is the only jeweller in the UK sourcing materials from urban mining.

Dr. Carmen Hijosa

Ananas Anam

Ananas Anam is a developer and manufacturer of Piñatex, the innovative natural material made from pineapple leaf fibre, an idea Carmen came up with in the 1990’s.

Santiago Navarro & Joe Revell

Garçon Wines

Garçon Wines has set a new sustainable benchmark as the manufacturer of advanced packaged wine, creating a flat wine bottle that can fit through your letterbox.

Tessa Clarke & Saasha Celestial-One

OLIO

OLIO connects neighbours and local businesses with each other to share food that would otherwise go to waste. Simply open the app, browse the listings near you.

Lewis Robling

Cocabana

Providing 100% natural and organic products, Cocabana aims to reduce the carbon footprint of single use plastics and embrace nature with their eco-friendly alternatives to everyday products.

Alessandro Rocchi

Georganics

Georganics stocks dental supplements, eco toothbrushes, chewing gum and toothpaste tablets made from organic and natural high quality ingredients.

Aaron McLaughlin & Nick Marsden

OOSC Clothing

OOSC Clothing was inspired by a ski trip and some vintage outfits from eBay. The brightly coloured ski wear brand uses recycled polyester fabrics and plastic bottles.

Francesco Majno, Edoardo Imparato, Andrea Di Nardo & Guglielmo Gori

CRICKÉ

High in protein, CRICKÉ are insect-based savoury snacks enriched with cricket powder.

Darren Wilson

Kabloom

Inspired by nature in an urban environment, Kabloom makes fun and innovative products that are environmentallyfriendly. His Guerrilla Gardening grenade is a crowd favourie.

Anna & William Brightman

Upcircle Beauty

Upcircle Beauty provides high performing skincare products, sourcing and reusing by-products from other industries, and taking an innovative approach to waste.

Alec Mills & Celia Pool

DAME

Spotlighted as one of the UK’s most innovative sustainable brands, DAME designs tampons to help improve women’s health and prevent more plastic waste ending up in landfills.

Emma Shaw, Sophia Wyatt & Rebecca Trevalyan

Inkpact

Library of Things is an online catalogue where people can borrow useful items for their home, projects or adventures to minimise the need to buy brand new items.

Pawan Saunya & Rishi Gupta

Zero Waste Club

From travel-size bamboo combs, to a waste wood ladle and newspaper pencils, all of Zero Waste Club’s products are made from sustainable materials in plastic free packaging.

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