This unique and prestigious Award is being sponsored by Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, the serial entrepreneur best known for founding easyJet. The creation of the Award was motivated by Stelios’ goal of not only supporting disabled entrepreneurs, but also raising awareness of the skills and inventiveness of those with disabilities.  We are now in the fifth year of the Award, which was launched in 2007. We are working in partnership with Leonard Cheshire Disability to find the winning disabled entrepreneur, who will be awarded a £50,000 prize to fund the further growth of their business. The two runners-up will also receive a prize of £1,000 each. The Award is a pan-disability award, please see the 'Further Information' tab for eligibility.

Following the recent disaster in Cyprus, the Stelios Philanthropic Foundation has raised €5600 in honour of each victim which will be donated to their families:

Outstanding results by this year’s LSE Stelios Scholar graduates!  Many congratulations to our 2007 – 2011 cohort who attended their graduation on 14 & 15 July this year.  And several of you are successfully working already.  A big well done to Isteaque Ahmed, Aiasha Khalid, Alice Yu, Robert Brereton, Rosa Rajendran, Gaurang Pipalia, Filipe Martins, Mohsen Khairaldin-Garcia and Tomas Vrba and we look forward to keeping in touch with you all.

Congratulations to our former winner of the Stelios Award For Business Co-operation In Cyprus, Praxoula Antoniadou who in 2009 won with her company 'Three Ladies' and has now been appointed as the Minister of Commerce, Industry and Tourism in Cyprus!