2024 Octopus Entrepreneur Awards Winners

Totally Locally

Chris Sands and Simon Waldren

Totally Locally started out as a small idea in the North of England and it has grown into a multi award winning worldwide movement.

Totally Locally is a free-to-sign-up campaign that promotes collaboration between local businesses to promote and support each other. It provides materials for ‘totally locally’ teams to start the campaign in their hometowns.

With the decline of high streets and the competition from online stores, Totally Locally supports local communities across the world.

GW Power / C3 Group

Daniel Haley

Daniel’s passion for sustainability led him to co-found C3 Group in 2022, a sustainability consultancy.  

Daniel’s companies have strategically partnered to provide businesses and organisations with unique end-to-end building decarbonisation service, simplifying the journey to achieving net-zero emissions. C3 Group offers consultancy services, identifying quick wins for decarbonisation, calculating ROI, and estimating carbon savings. GW Power, in turn, then delivers a wide range of upgrades, including but not limited to solar PV, LED lighting, insulation improvements, and various energy efficiency enhancements.

Rainbow Fabrics

Yusuf Ashraf

Rainbow Fabrics sells deadstock and recycled fabrics both from its storefront on Kilburn High Road and online to businesses and customers around the world.

Deadstock fabric is leftover fabric that can’t be used for its original purpose. Reselling deadstock fabric reduces textile waste and pollution, especially as the fashion industry is responsible for 8-10% of global emissions

WUKA

Ruby Raut

Ruby grew up in Nepal, which inspires her work in making menstruation-positive, taboo-free and environmentally-friendly products. Her company, WUKA, is a brand of reusable eco-friendly period products. After years of campaigning, she was finally successful in persuading the Government to drop VAT on reusable period products.

Joyfully Different

Co-founder, Mark Blake

Joyfully Different is on a mission to help neurodiverse entrepreneurs.  Joyfully Different set about creating a program to provide neurodivergent-specific support to develop the skills required for entrepreneurship. The company aims to work in collaboration with councils to promote and assist neurodivergent individuals in setting up businesses and their ambitious goals deserve recognition.