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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.