About the award
Leonard Cheshire Disability has run work-skills training programmes for disabled people for many years. In recent years we launched a programme called ‘Ready to Start’ that seeks to support disabled people in becoming self-employed.
It was off the back of this start-your-own business programme that Sir Stelios and Leonard Cheshire Disability decided to team up to create the STELIOS AWARD FOR DISABLED ENTREPRENEURS IN THE UK 2010.
As Sir Stelios put it himself on the launch of the award; “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. That is why I was keen to establish an award which gives disabled people an opportunity to showcase their ability rather than have them negatively judged by their disability. I look forward to seeing the best of the entries and meeting the eventual winner.”
