Name Chester Mojay-Sinclare | ||
Chester Mojay-Sinclare (born c. 1989) 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.
Contents
Early life
Mojay-Sinclare was born in London and grew up in Ashburton in Devon, England. 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. He went on to read Philosophy at University College London 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.
Charity Checkout
The social enterprise Charity Checkout was founded by Mojay-Sinclare in 2009 while he was still a student at University College London. 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.
Charity Checkout is a provider of online fundraising tools for charities and not-for-profit organisations. 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.
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.
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.
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. 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.
Stardust Ashes provides an environmentally-friendly method of scattering cremation ashes at over 100,000 ft above earth. The business also offers the scattering of pet ashes.