Award Applications

Open · 37% capacity (242/650)

Closes at capacity or on 1 June 2026 at 09:00 (45 days left)

Your Award Panel

Date

Thursday, March 5th 2026

Hello! We are your panel members; we are looking forward to meeting you and hearing about your social venture.

UnLtd panels reflect our commitment to inclusion, with over 50% of our panel members identifying as Black, Asian or minority ethnic and/or disabled, and at a minimum, one panel member who identifies as Black, Asian or minority ethnic and/or disabled sitting on each panel.

    Panel Chair
  • Thomas McAlister

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    Social Entrepreneur Support Manager at UnLtd

    Thomas is a Social Entrepreneur Support Manager at UnLtd, working on the frontline supporting social entrepreneurs from across Scotland. His job is to find social entrepreneurs and help them with funding and support to make big things happen. He's interested in finding solutions to spark more social innovation in our most deprived communities, which are often areas that could benefit most from social enterprise activity. Prior to UnLtd he worked in the private sector in logistics and supply chain management. As you can imagine, logistics isn’t the most exciting job and so he decided to re-train and did a postgraduate qualification in Community Development and worked in a number of community development and regeneration roles. He then found UnLtd and has enjoyed working with and supporting social entrepreneurs since 2007.

    Social Entrepreneurs
  • Eve Kekeh

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    Social Entrepreneur

    Eve Kekeh is the Founder of Bundlee, the UK’s first rental subscription service for childrenswear. Eve is on a mission to transform the wasteful childrenswear industry and help to create a better future for little ones to grow into. Eve is passionate about the circular economy, reducing waste and extending the lifespan of products. She holds a Masters in Enterprise and has been listed on Forbes 30 Under 30 and Drapers 30 Under 30 and was awarded Sustainability Entrepreneur of the Year for London at the Great British Entrepreneurs Awards.

  • Steffan Lemke-Elms

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    Social Entrepreneur

    Steff is 33 years old and currently rooted in Wales. He loves anything about nature and the outdoors. His social enterprise career began at age 21, when he started to recycle the thousands of wellies abandoned at Glastonbury Festival each year. He made and sold products out of the broken wellies and paired the good ones up and sent them to Romania to be used by people living and working on landfills, who needed suitable footwear. Over five years, we redistributed and recycled 20,000 boots. This lead him to work with a charity to set up small social enterprises in Kenya and Uganda. Following on from that he set up a sustainable restaurant, a community farm and more recently he has been appointed the Social Enterprise Development Officer for a charity in Pembrokeshire. He is passionate about bringing big thinkers together and supporting them on their journeys; creating fantastic projects, helping humanity and developing their social enterprise skills.

    UnLtd Colleagues
  • Nuala Smyth

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    Social Entrepreneur Support Manager at UnLtd

    Nuala started her career as an awareness raising officer supporting young people considering self-employment as a career option, she then went on to work on the community business start-up programme in Belfast. Before joining UnLtd in 2003, she worked for an all-island peace building charity on cross border economic programmes and opportunities. She is a passionate member of the team and is motivated by seeing the difference an UnLtd Award can make to the lives of our social entrepreneurs and in turn their beneficiaries. Nuala is married with two teenage children, trained as a dementia friend, and has recently taken up cycling.