2025 SHORTLISTS

The award winners will be announced at the IEEC gala dinner on 11 September.

The shortlisted applications for the 2025 National Enterprise Educator Awards are:

ENTERPRISE CATALYST AWARD
  • Imperial Venture Mentoring – Imperial Enterprise Lab, Imperial College London
  • Ignite Enterprise Programme – Royal Agricultural University
  • From Classroom to Change-Maker: Preparing Students for the Future Through Enterprise – South Eastern Regional College (SERC)
ENTERPRISE FOR GOOD AWARD
  • Business Enterprise Project: East Lancashire Hospice – Blackburn College
  • Cotswold Hills wine from the Royal Agricultural University in Cirencester, Gloucestershire – Royal Agricultural University
  • Be Your Own Boss – South Eastern Regional College (SERC)
ENTREPRENEURSHIP CATALYST AWARD
  • Empowering NextGen Entrepreneurs at ARU – Anglia Ruskin University
  • The University of Dundee’s Centre for Entrepreneurship – Empowering Growth and igniting ideas via education, fuelling new ventures and transforming lives – University of Dundee
  • Strathclyde Inspire: Driving Strategic Support at Scotland’s Leading Entrepreneurial Campus – University of Strathclyde
PIONEER IN ENTERPRISE EDUCATION AWARD
  • Jonathan Styles – Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester
  • Victoria Nicholl – Imperial Enterprise Lab, Imperial College London
  • Laura-Jane Silverman – LSE Generate
RISING STAR IN ENTERPRISE EDUCATION AWARD
  • Sara Roberts – Imperial Enterprise Lab, Imperial College London
  • Elliott Lancaster – Newcastle and Stafford Colleges Group
  • James Hamstead – University of Southampton
INCLUSIVE ENTERPRISE EDUCATION AWARD
  • Jonathan Styles – Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester
  • Nick Fannin – Edinburgh Napier University
  • Paroma Bhattacharya – LSE Generate
  • Laura-Jane Silverman – LSE Generate

THANK YOU TO THE NEEA25 JUDGING PANEL

Ali Ahmad, Emma Bonfiglio, Sarah Church, Linsey Cole, Phil Clarke, Neil Coles, Christopher Moon, Vicky Mountford-Brown, Diana Pasek-Atkinson, Syeda Rahimunessa, Colin Rigby, Ruth Rowe, Ema Talam, Jing Zhang, Yankong Zhu