Chester Mojay-Sinclare
Chester Mojay-Sinclare (born c. 1989)[1] is a British entrepreneur. He is the founder of social enterprise Charity Checkout and Spudnik, the not-for-profit educational space project which led to the development of Stardust Ashes, a high altitude ash scattering service.[1]
Early life
Mojay-Sinclare was born in London and grew up in Ashburton in Devon, England.[2] The entrepreneur says he was "a difficult child" who was expelled from primary school at a young age, before moving on to secondary school at South Dartmoor Community College.[3] He went on to read Philosophy at University College London[4] and after graduation became Consultant Entrepreneur at UCL Business Plc. He also represented the UK at the 2011 Global Student Entrepreneurship Awards in New York.[5][6]
Charity Checkout
The social enterprise Charity Checkout was founded by Mojay-Sinclare in 2009 while he was still a student at University College London.[1] Mojay-Sinclare has been running the organisation full-time since 2012, after he graduated from University College London, one of the original investors in the social enterprise.[7]
Charity Checkout is a provider of online fundraising tools for charities and not-for-profit organisations.[8] Charity Checkout is a winner of the 2014 Big Venture Challenge competition for social enterprises and aims to enable charities to raise more money online via their own website.[9]
House of Lords
In 2016 Mojay-Sinclare gave evidence to the House of Lords Select Committee on Charities, as an expert in digital technology and fundraising. During the evidence session, Mojay-Sinclare recommended introducing digital trustee roles in an effort to "bring a focus to digital" within the charity sector.[10]
This suggestion became one of the key recommendations within the 'Stronger charities for a stronger society' report published by the House of Lords Select Committee on Charities.[11][12]
Stardust Ashes
Stardust Ashes is a business founded in 2011 by Mojay-Sinclare following the scattering of his late grandmother's ashes into the atmostphere 20 miles above earth.[13][14] Mojay-Sinclare's inspiration for this was his earlier project, Spudnik,[15] which involved the launch and retrieval of a potato dressed as Santa Claus into near space.[16][17][18][19]
Stardust Ashes provides an environmentally-friendly method of scattering cremation ashes at over 100,000 ft above earth.[20] The business also offers the scattering of pet ashes.[21]
References
- ^ a b c "Young Entrepreneur Bucks The Unemployment Trend". The Yorkshire Times. 12 November 2012. Retrieved 11 October 2016.
- ^ "Chester offers the chance to have ashes scattered in space". Western Morning News. 23 September 2011. Retrieved 11 October 2016.
- ^ "Interview with Chester Mojay-Sinclare – Founder of Charity Checkout". YHP.
- ^ "'Spudnik' project helps pupils see into space". UCL.
- ^ "UCLB's Consultant Entrepreneur Finishes Top 30 in Global Entrepreneurship Competition". UCL Business.
- ^ "UCLB's Consultant Entrepreneur Launches Charity Checkout". UCL Business.
- ^ "Global Banking and Financial Review recently conversed with the youthful British entrepreneur, Chester Mojay-Sinclare, about his most recent and successful endeavor, Charity Checkout" (interview). Global Banking and Finance Review. 19 November 2012.
- ^ "Charity Checkout". Charity Checkout.
- ^ "Big Venture Challenge – The Winners 2014". UnLtd.
- ^ "Trustees and leaders letting charities down on digital, lords hear". Civil Society.
- ^ "Stronger charities for a stronger society" (PDF). UK Parliament.
- ^ "Baroness Pitkeathley: Our recommendations support the vital role of charities". Third Sector.
- ^ "Final resting space: Gran gets cosmic send-off in style". Metro.
- ^ "Ashes request is one small step for gran". Daily Mirror.
- ^ Anna Edwards (20 September 2011). "Out of this world! Space fan gives late grandmother the ultimate send-off by scattering her ashes in SPACE". Daily Mail.
- ^ "Spudnik: Potato dressed as Santa with a camera attached is sent to edge of space by schoolchildren". Daily Mail.
- ^ "School kids launch potato dressed as Santa into space". The Daily Telegraph.
- ^ "Soaring 90,000ft above earth .. a potato dressed as Santa attached to a helium balloon". Daily Mirror.
- ^ "Mashtronaut is launched into space". The Sun.
- ^ "Stardust Ashes". Stardust Ashes.
- ^ "Huddersfield man sends mum's ashes into space along with her pets'". The Huddersfield Daily.