The 15th Annual PRECIOUS Awards -Meet the Finalists

The 15th Annual PRECIOUS Awards take place on 24th November at The Waldorf, London. The Awards celebrate the achievements of some incredible women of colour and we are delighted to announce our finalists.

Start up Business supported by the British Library Business and IP Centre

Neo Percept IP

Stephanie Njoku

Neo Percept is as an Intellectual Property Law firm offering all IP services including trade marks, copyright, design, and patents. Customers can obtain free advice in an initial free consultation as well a number services packaged for the convenience of customers.

Neo Percept is as an Intellectual Property Law firm offering all IP services including trade marks, copyright, design, and patents. Customers can obtain free advice in an initial free consultation as well a number services packaged for the convenience of customers.

www.neopercept.co.uk

Little Scholars Playground

Natalie Bent

Little Scholars Playground is a diverse children’s book publisher and early years hub. Diversity and representation is at the core of what we do. My mission is to create engaging, diverse children’s literature and learning resources. 

https://littlescholarsplayground.com/

BIND London

Kayleigh Benoit

BIND London is a high fashion fitness and athleisure brand, specialising in headwear that not only protects against sweat, heat and moisture, but is the first brand of its kind to cater for all hair types and textures.

https://www.bindlondon.com

Social Entrepreneur of the Year Sponsored by Diva

Small Business of the Year sponsored by Santander

Thc Primary Care

Tara Humphrey

NAYA LONDON is a Cosmetic retailer & Distributor. In 2006 the company was started by then 19 years old university student Vanessa Fernandes as a response to her frustration for the lack of products suitable for Afro hair in salons across London. The company initially supplied salons only, selling a range of professional products catering to a variety of hair textures and then expanded to the retail market via an online store that supplies customers all over the world. NAYA LONDON is committed to advocating for diversity in the industry as well as using the Beauty business a way of empowering women by supporting female owned, black owned, small independent brands alongside well-known brands.

www.naya.london

Creative Business of the Year

Outstanding Woman in Public Sector

The Leadership Award sponsored by the Open University

Kayleigh Oliver

Immerse Learning Ltd

Kayleigh is the Quality Assurance (QA) and Release manager for Immerse, a virtual

reality (VR) company that builds a web-based platform for VR applications and a Unity

software development kit (SDK).

Ayo Greaves

Occupational Therapist (OT) within the NHS specialising in mental health

SLAM NHS Trust

Syd Femtinos

Uk Virtual School

UKVS offers a flexible online British Education adapted for the modern world, catering

for Year 1 to iGCSEs for Home Educating families, Expats, and World Schoolers.

https://ukvirtualschool.co.uk

Social Advocate of the Year

Nadine White

The Independent newspaper’s first dedicated race correspondent.

Reporting about issues relating to race, and amplifying black perspectives in particular.

Eni Timi-Biu

Create Your Table

It is a development platform and network that

provides capital, space and support for Black food and drink entrepreneurs.

http://www.createyourtable.org/

Kym Oliver & Jumoke Abdullahi

The Triple Criples

A  platform for sharing stories and talking about the three levels of discrimination that are faced by

Black, disabled women.

https://thetriplecripples.uk/

Outstanding Women in Stem

Paulette is founder of Academy Achievers, an organisation working with children and

young people ages 5-19 year olds, who are from marginalised communities. Currently

leading in Science Technology Engineering Art Math activities. The #BeMe project aims

to raise 1 million Black girls aspirations in STEM related careers.

https://academyachievers.co.uk/

Charlene Hunter

Coding Black Females

Charlene is the founder of Coding Black Females the largest community of Black women in tech in the UK. Coding Black Females’ mission is to provide opportunities for Black female developers to meet familiar faces, develop themselves, network, receive support and build relationships through having regular meetups.

https://codingblackfemales.com/

Emma and Charlotte Robertson – Founders –Digital Awareness

As digital rights activists, the sisters campaign in the media, in parliament

and in schools and organisations around the world to empower young people

to survive and thrive online,

https://www.digitalawarenessuk.com

Outstanding Woman in Professional Services sponsored by Baker McKenzie

Sultana Tafadar

Ranked in the Legal 500, Sultanais a highly experienced human rights, international law and criminal justice barrister. She has acted in some of the mostlegally significant, ground breaking cases in the UK, most of which make headlines. She carries out a vast amount of human rights work, often on a pro bono basis, that has a significant impact on the lives of others.

Adeife Onwuzulike, Head of Diversity and Inclusion, Confederation of British

Industry(CBI)

Adeife drives the internal CBI D&I work from creating and implementing their D&I

strategy that is embedded into every part of the business and the business strategy.

She is the stakeholder and partnerships lead for the CBI Change the race ratio

campaign focused on accelerating racial representation in business from board level to

junior staff.

Sally Penn MBE

Manchester based Sally is a practicing Common Law Barrister

specialising in Public Law with an emphasis on vulnerability and also in Employment

Law. Outside of her Legal Career Sally works tirelessly to improve equality, diversity

and inclusion at all levels of society, nationally and internationally. She is founder of

Women in the Law UK and hosts the Talking Law podcast  which is currently approaching 72,000

downloads and listeners.