Chester Mojay-Sinclare


Chester Mojay-Sinclare is a British entrepreneur. He is the founder of social enterprise Enthuse and Spudnik, the not-for-profit educational space project.

Early life

Mojay-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. He went on to read Philosophy at University College London and represented the UK at the 2011 Global Student Entrepreneurship Awards in New York.

Enthuse

The social enterprise Enthuse was founded by Mojay-Sinclare in 2011 while he was a student at University College London, the university were one of the original investors in the social enterprise.
Enthuse 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 enables charities to raise 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.