Virtually There’s Young Entrepreneur Scheme: Meet our winners!

Ruxshin Bajina

I am an Accounting and Business student at university. I am very interested in nutrition and learning about new healthy foods and supplements. My idea is a superfood cookies business that mixes superfoods like spirulina, chaga and blueberry into a healthy cookie to increase its nutrient profile and be a tasty, nutritious snack!

Gareth Johnson

I moved to Cardiff to study and train as a classical musician. It was then my entrepreneurial spirit became prevalent and I started to build an entrepreneurial portfolio consisting of marketing, music, media and education. I’m looking forward to developing new ideas further, including a production company that develops underground and under-represented musicians and artists’ careers, providing them with an outstanding platform to develop upon.”

Fawas Saliu

I left school last year and was looking into starting a business based on eco products. The business idea is to sell products that are plastic alternatives, while also using most of the profit to fund charities around littering, removing plastic in 3rd world countries and also plastic in the seas.”

Ella Hopki

My name is Ella and I have recently graduated from the University of Sheffield studying Applied Social Sciences. I am passionate about engaging older adults in group exercise activities to reduce social isolation and sedentary living. Therefore, I now project lead Motion, a social enterprise that designs and delivers chair-based exercise sessions to older adults.”

Alex Ramsden

I’m the founder of Collabed – a new social network for the construction industry. We aim to help graduates get started in the industry as well as helping with job searching and continuous learning.”

Charlotte Clews

I’m Charlotte, a PhD Student at the Roslin Institute, Edinburgh. I founded The CURIOU Project to give young researchers an opportunity to share their work through art, blogs, videos and social media, and to provide an insight into the lives of scientists doing our day to day jobs. The aim is to make science more accessible as a career path for young people, and to share some of the exciting breakthroughs happening across the globe – from the scientist’s perspective!”

Millie Flemington-Clare

My name is Millie, and I was born with a rare genetic disorder called Cystinosis which affects only 3000 people worldwide. In the Beauty industry, there is a severe lack of disability representation, even though disabled people make up 15% of the world’s population. This is where HUMAN BEAUTY comes in. My mission is to create a truly inclusive cosmetics brand with like-minded people with and without disabilities in my campaigns to make it the norm (as it should be!).”