Chester Mojay-SinclareChester Mojay-Sinclare (born c. 1989) is a British entrepreneur. He is the founder of tech for good company Enthuse, the donations, fundraising and event registration technology provider.[1][2] Early lifeMojay-Sinclare was born in London and grew up in Ashburton in Devon, England. 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 and founded Spudnik, an educational space project that involved a potato dressed as Father Christmas being sent 90,000 ft in a space capsule designed by Landscove Church of England Primary School children.[4] [5] In 2011, he fulfilled the final wishes of his late grandmother to have her ashes scattered into the stratosphere.[6][7] Mojay-Sinclare represented the UK at the Global Student Entrepreneurship Awards in New York the same year.[8] In 2018, he was named in Forbes 30 Under 30.[9] EnthuseEnthuse is a provider of donations, fundraising and event registration technology to charities and not-for-profit organisations.[1] The tech for good company was founded by Mojay-Sinclare in 2012 while he was a student at University College London; the university was one of the original investors in the company.[10] Enthuse has raised £7.3m in investment in three separate funding rounds to date.[11] In 2022, Enthuse was chosen as the London Marathon’s official fundraising partner, replacing Virgin Money Giving.[12] House of LordsIn 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.[13] 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.[14][15] References
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