Chester Mojay-Sinclare

Chester Mojay-Sinclare (born c. 1989)[1] is a British entrepreneur. He is the founder of social enterprise Enthuse and Spudnik, the not-for-profit educational space project.[1]

Early life

Mojay-Sinclare was born in London and grew up in Ashburton in Devon, England.[2] He 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 represented the UK at the 2011 Global Student Entrepreneurship Awards in New York.[5][6]

Enthuse

The social enterprise Enthuse (formerly Charity Checkout) was founded by Mojay-Sinclare in 2011 while he was a student at University College London,[1] the university were one of the original investors in the social enterprise.[7]

Enthuse 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 enables charities to raise 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, which involved the launch and retrieval of a potato dressed as Santa Claus into near space.[15][16]

Stardust Ashes provides an environmentally-friendly method of scattering cremation ashes at over 100,000 ft above earth.[17]

References
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  2. "Chester offers the chance to have ashes scattered in space". Western Morning News. 23 September 2011. Archived from the original on 16 December 2014. Retrieved 11 October 2016.
  3. "Interview with Chester Mojay-Sinclare – Founder of Charity Checkout". YHP.
  4. "'Spudnik' project helps pupils see into space". UCL.
  5. "UCLB's Consultant Entrepreneur Finishes Top 30 in Global Entrepreneurship Competition". UCL Business.
  6. "UCLB's Consultant Entrepreneur Launches Charity Checkout". UCL Business.
  7. "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.
  8. "Charity Checkout". Charity Checkout. Archived from the original on 18 May 2011. Retrieved 29 August 2014.
  9. "Big Venture Challenge – The Winners 2014". UnLtd.
  10. "Trustees and leaders letting charities down on digital, lords hear". Civil Society.
  11. "Stronger charities for a stronger society" (PDF). UK Parliament.
  12. "Baroness Pitkeathley: Our recommendations support the vital role of charities". Third Sector.
  13. "Final resting space: Gran gets cosmic send-off in style". Metro.
  14. "Ashes request is one small step for gran". Daily Mirror.
  15. "School kids launch potato dressed as Santa into space". The Daily Telegraph.
  16. "Soaring 90,000ft above earth .. a potato dressed as Santa attached to a helium balloon". Daily Mirror.
  17. "Stardust Ashes". Stardust Ashes.
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