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]

Background

Mojay-Sinclare was born in London and grew up in Ashburton in Devon, England.[2] The entrepreneur claims to have been "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 occupied full-time by the project 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 credit/debit card and Direct Debit payment processing facilities 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]

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.[10][11] Mojay-Sinclare's inspiration for this was his earlier project, Spudnik,[12] which involved the launch and retrieval of a potato dressed as Santa Claus into near space.[13][14][15][16]

Stardust Ashes provides an environmentally-friendly method of scattering cremation ashes at over 100,000 ft above earth.[17] The business also offers the scattering of pet ashes.[18]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Young Entrepreneur Bucks The Unemployment Trend". The Yorkshire Times. 12 November 2012. Retrieved 11 October 2016.
  2. ↑ "Chester offers the chance to have ashes scattered in space". Western Morning News. 23 September 2011. 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.
  9. ↑ "Big Venture Challenge – The Winners 2014". UnLtd.
  10. ↑ "Final resting space: Gran gets cosmic send-off in style". Metro.
  11. ↑ "Ashes request is one small step for gran". The Daily Mirror.
  12. ↑ Anna Edwards (20 September 2011). "Out of this world! Space fan gives late grandmother the ultimate send-off by scattering her ashes in SPACE". The Daily Mail.
  13. ↑ "Spudnik: Potato dressed as Santa with a camera attached is sent to edge of space by schoolchildren". The Daily Mail.
  14. ↑ "School kids launch potato dressed as Santa into space". The Daily Telegraph.
  15. ↑ "Soaring 90,000ft above earth .. a potato dressed as Santa attached to a helium balloon". The Daily Mirror.
  16. ↑ "Mashtronaut is launched into space". The Sun.
  17. ↑ "Stardust Ashes". Stardust Ashes.
  18. ↑ "Huddersfield man sends mum's ashes into space along with her pets'". The Huddersfield Daily.
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