BBC Dragon backs Stelios Award
27 July 2010
Have BBC Dragon Julie Meyer cast her eye over your business and be in with a chance of winning £50,000
Araidne Capital boss Julie Meyer is the latest name to join the judges who will pick the winner of the £50,000 Stelios Award for Disabled Entrepreneur in the UK - 2010.
The competition, now in its fourth year, is administered by the Stelios Philanthropic Foundation (
www.stelios.com) in partnership with Leonard Cheshire Disability.
Julie said: “I am always excited to meet entrepreneurs who are committed to overcoming the odds to make their business succeed. It is a particular honour to be given the opportunity to judge these awards and to encounter so many great entrepreneurs who have had to fight even harder to rise above the challenges involved in starting their own business.
It is this added determination and creativity which make their businesses stand out from the crowd and I am proud to be in a position to help identify the winner for 2010.”
Joining Julie as judges will be Sir Stelios, Daniel Franklin, Editor of the Economist, Helen Loveless from the Daily Mail and last years’ winner John Pickup of Amputees in Action.
The 2010 winner will receive the award at the Growing Business Awards, to be held at the Marriott Hotel Grosvenor Square in London on 25 November 2010.
To find out how to enter visit
www.disabledentrepreneur.org; the closing date for entries is 3 September, 2010.
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