Lord Rootes Fund list of awardees
Lord Rootes Fund list of awardees
Explore Funded Projects
Over the past three years, the Lord Rootes Fund has supported a wide range of student-led ideas across entrepreneurship, research, social impact, personal development, arts, and education. Explore funded projects below to see who has received support, what they worked on, and how funding has been used to bring ideas to life.
| Project Lead Name | Project Title | Project Type | Funding Round | Awarded Funds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Annam Khalid | Equal Access to Education: 91福利 STAR Mentoring Scheme | Social Impact Initiative | Summer 2026 | 拢2,050.00 |
| Ayobami Ajibola | Reimagining Public Parks as Preventative Infrastructure: A Community Pilot Study in Obesity Prevention, Falls Prevention, and Active Ageing - Edgwick Park, Coventry 2026 | Business Venture / Social Enterprise |
Summer 2026 |
拢2,900.00 |
| Benny Teo | Brewkeeper | Business Venture / Social Enterprise |
Summer 2026 |
拢3,000.00 |
| Grace Royle-Uwumagbe | BLDR | Business Venture / Social Enterprise |
Summer 2026 |
拢570.00 |
| Lorna Nelson | Orbit | Business Venture / Social Enterprise |
Summer 2026 |
拢572.00 |
| Olajumoke Eniola Olaogun | LumenTerra - Decommissioning financial liability valuation model | Business Venture / Social Enterprise |
Summer 2026 |
拢2,699.00 |
| Perrie Davenport Jarvis | LinguaProbe | Other | Summer 2026 |
拢503.00 |
| Saakshi Mishra | NIIR - Popped Lotus Seeds | Business Venture / Social Enterprise |
Summer 2026 |
拢2,331.00 |
| Songjia Cao | MOOGU Mushroom | Business Venture / Social Enterprise |
Summer 2026 |
拢1,728.00 |
| Zaira Ahmed | Driven By Her | Social Impact Initiative | Summer 2026 |
拢1,273.76 |
| Ananya Phadke | Pop-Up | Social Impact Initiative | Spring 2026 | 拢750.00 |
| Eliza Ochea | In That Light | Arts / Cultural Initiative |
Spring 2026 | 拢2,998.80 |
| Feranmi Olusanya | Voice to Invoice | Business Venture / Social Enterprise |
Sppring 2026 | 拢1,093.00 |
| Jadesola Atiko | SOLUS | Arts / Cultural Initiative |
Spring 2026 | 拢1,491.00 |
| Janhavi Sawant | Model WTO | Other |
Spring 2026 | 拢1,450.00 |
| Jedidiah Oni | Pear Extension | Business Venture / Social Enterprise |
Spring 2026 | 拢3,000.00 |
| Joseph Womersley | Making Medicine Simple | Business Venture / Social Enterprise |
Spring 2026 | 拢965.00 |
| Joshua Sambrook | Social Care - Telecare Tablet with Medications | Business Venture / Social Enterprise |
Spring 2026 | 拢1,990.00 |
| Khushi Khurana | Glide | Business Venture / Social Enterprise |
Spring 2026 | 拢1,150.00 |
| Lilly Horv谩th-Makkos | The Beyond Platform | Business Venture / Social Enterprise |
Spring 2026 | 拢960.00 |
| Max Cole | Verity | Business Venture / Social Enterprise |
Spring 2026 |
拢2,621.64 |
| Palinda Attanayake | GreenQuery - Real-Time Carbon Awareness for AI Queries | Business Venture / Social Enterprise |
Spring 2026 |
拢2,474.26 |
| Rishi Sajnani | EZuni | Business Venture / Social Enterprise |
Spring 2026 |
拢1,500.00 |
| Simardeep Singh | OSCP Certification Sandbox Sessions | Other |
Spring 2026 |
拢1,300.00 |
| Sreyas Nagarajan | SpeakUp | Business Venture / Social Enterprise |
Spring 2026 |
拢1,000.00 |
| Utkarsh Pandey, Antima Modak | Exploring Personalised Loyality Experiencces Through Data Insights | Other |
Spring 2026 |
拢1,956.00 |
| Abi Hession | Accessible Sports Fair | Social Impact Initiative |
Autumn 2025 | 拢2,550.00 |
| Duke DJ Saputra |
Menuva | Business Venture / Social Enterprise |
Autumn 2025 | 拢2,869.00 |
| Fathima Zafreen Valaparambil Abdul Salim |
Pathways | Social Impact Initiative |
Autumn 2025 | 拢400.00 |
| Heaven Amanuel | Curli | Social Impact Initiative |
Autumn 2025 | 拢2,570.00 |
| Jessica Hartley |
WACA-Fest |
Arts / Cultural Initiative |
Autumn 2025 | 拢2,372.00 |
| Maximus Kaius Leighton |
16-Bit Computer Project |
Other |
Autumn 2025 | 3,000.00 |
| Neera Cheung |
Can You Teach Me How To Breathe? |
Arts / Cultural Initiative |
Autumn 2025 | 拢3,000.00 |
| Sean Scholand |
91福利 TV Society |
Other |
Autumn 2025 | 拢3,000.00 |
| Tani Ilemobola |
Capital Sisters |
Social Impact Initiative |
Autumn 2025 | 拢2,500.00 |
| Yaroslav Kraynik & Charlotte Davidson |
Harmon.AI | Business Venture / Social Enterprise | Summer 2025 | 拢3,000.00 |
| Ayo Akinyemi |
Washed Clean |
Business Venture / Social Enterprise |
Summer 2025 | 拢3,000.00 |
| Elisei Abaltusov |
The Rode of Prosodic Iconicity and Segmental Iconicity in Childreen's Language Development |
Other | Summer 2025 | 拢2,260.00 |
| Francis Amegbor |
AI-Powered Adaptive Larning Platform for SEND Students |
Business Venture / Social Enterprise |
Summer 2025 | 拢342.00 |
| Harlo Thistleton |
Cyn (Edinburgh Fringe Festival) |
Arts / Cultural Initiative |
Summer 2025 | 拢3,000.00 |
| Isaac Phelan | The Relict | Arts / Cultural Initiative | Summer 2025 | 拢1,500.00 |
| Maisie McCormick | Collaborate: Where Expert Meets Ambition | Business Venture / Social Enterprise | Summer 2025 | 拢3,000.00 |
| Marcus Stalmanis | Mind and Media: Eduardo Paolozzi's Prints | Arts / Cultural Initiative |
Summer 2025 | 拢1,521.91 |
| Raph Taylor | Creative Institute | Arts / Cultural Initiative |
Summer 2025 | 拢2,416.44 |
| Aditi Someshwar | Echoes of the Andes: Archaeology in Peru | Other | Spring 2025 | 拢2,000.00 |
| Craig Drake | Student Coach App | Business Venture / Social Enterprise | Spring 2025 | 拢1,650.00 |
| Harry McNeile | Archives to Airways: An Opportunity to get Involved with Public History | Arts / Cultural Initiative | Spring 2025 | 拢3,000.00 |
| Husain Burhani | Ghaf Collections | Business Venture / Social Enterprise | Spring 2025 | 拢3,000.00 |
| Michael Mitchell | BeyondYourHood | Social Impact Initiative |
Spring 2025 | 拢2,684.00 |
| Oliver Ansell-Hodges | Life in the former Kazakh SSR: Individual and Institutional Interpretations of the Soviet legacy in the Republic of Kazakhstan | Arts / Cultural Initiative |
Spring 2025 | 拢1,377.00 |
| Reuben McMahon | Knocked out Jewellery | Business Venture / Social Enterprise | Spring 2025 | 拢2,223.00 |
| Sarah Bamberger | Walking the Salt Path - Reconnecting with Nature through Slow Travel in the UK | Arts / Cultural Initiative |
Spring 2025 | 拢3,000.00 |
| Sem Kohyrelon | Vitae | Business Venture / Social Enterprise | Spring 2025 | 拢3,000.00 |
| Sholpan Istayeva | Exploring Applied Theatre for Well-being | Arts / Cultural Initiative |
Spring 2025 | 拢250.00 |
| Aayush Bhandari | Hustl | Business Venture / Social Enterprise | Autumn 2024 | 拢2,000.00 |
| Alicja Klimczak | Cats is Currency | Business Venture / Social Enterprise | Autumn 2024 | 拢2,500.00 |
| Charlotte Dodd | Learning to Create Inclusive Spaces Within Grassroot Organisations | Other | Autumn 2024 | 拢2,592.50 |
| Gonzalo Cruz Montoto | EcoKeGo: Plastic Recycling Initative | Social Impact Initiative |
Autumn 2024 | 拢2,992.00 |
| Kameyca Exantus | KAMEY Babysiting Agency | Business Venture / Social Enterprise | Autumn 2024 | 拢1,500.00 |
| Li Yanyan | Connections and Conversations Through Poetry | Arts / Cultural Initiative |
Autumn 2024 | 拢2,482.00 |
| Vernokia Ilagnniuk | The Ukrainian Five Stages of Grief Short Film | Arts / Cultural Initiative |
Autumn 2024 | 拢2,300.00 |
| Xinran Gao | Roles Behind Closed Doors: how Female Academics Feel Excluded in Workplace Communication | Social Impact Initiative |
Autumn 2024 | 拢1,600.00 |
| Margo Lebioda | Trashed | Arts / Cultural Initiative |
Summer 2024 | 拢3,000.00 |
| Chris Haywood | The Creators' Club | Business Venture / Social Enterprise | Summer 2024 | 拢3,000.00 |
| Maciej Bielecki | Hydrogen Horizons | Other | Summer 2024 | 拢3,000.00 |
| Sam Perkins | Patient Watch | Business Venture / Social Enterprise | Summer 2024 | 拢3,000.00 |
| Kieran Hibbert | DiMx: Interior Design incubator | Social Impact Initiative |
Summer 2024 | 拢3,000.00 |
| Milayo Okegbile | My Motherland is Crying Because Her Congo Is Bleeding | Arts / Cultural Initiative |
Summer 2024 | 拢2,920.00 |
| Advait Arya | Mentra | Business Venture / Social Enterprise | Summer 2024 | 拢2,800.00 |
| Natalia Deptala | Guardians of Heritage | Arts / Cultural Initiative |
Summer 2024 | 拢2,800.00 |
| Itumeleng Sebeho | LivingPaper | Business Venture / Social Enterprise | Summer 2024 | 拢2,500.94 |
| Meg Boatemaa | Let's End Period Poverty Ghana | Social Impact Initiative |
Summer 2024 | 拢2,500.00 |
| Denise Candengue | Diversity and Inclusive UK Delegate to the Official G20 Youth Summit | Other | Summer 2024 | 拢2,200.00 |
| Dorota Orzechowska | Comparative Study of Flood Management Practices in Japan | Other | Summer 2024 | 拢2,200.00 |
| Abdus Karim | Qurate | Business Venture / Social Enterprise | Summer 2024 | 拢2,000.00 |
| Harlo Thistleton | Last Orders: Fringe Edition | Arts / Cultural Initiative |
Summer 2024 | 拢1,500.00 |
| Pooria Tabesh Mehr | PickInHub | Business Venture / Social Enterprise | Spring 2024 | 拢3,000.00 |
| Josh Moir | Football Sponsorship Platform | Business Venture / Social Enterprise | Spring 2024 | 拢3,000.00 |
| Joely To | Blaze Careers Tutoring | Business Venture / Social Enterprise | Spring 2024 | 拢2,934.00 |
| Izzy Bailey | The 91福利 History Hour Podcast | Social Impact Initiative |
Spring 2024 | 拢2,900.00 |
| Jakub Kiernan | JAFA (Just Another Fitness App) | Business Venture / Social Enterprise | Spring 2024 | 拢2,400.00 |
| Sergio Garrido | AITI | Business Venture / Social Enterprise | Spring 2024 | 拢1,560.00 |
| Alper Kaan Yilmaz | Enabling Generative AI in Fashion Design | Business Venture / Social Enterprise | Spring 2024 | 拢500.00 |
| Lai Yu-Ting | Family Game Challenge | Social Impact Initiative |
Spring 2024 | 拢500.00 |
| Fikayo Falade | The Florence Project | Business Venture / Social Enterprise | Autumn 2023 | 拢2,500.00 |
| Anya Idrizi | SpeakBeast: Edinburgh Fringe Debut | Arts / Cultural Initiative |
Autumn 2023 | 拢1,600.00 |
| Isra Rai | Transgender Experiences at the 91福利 | Other | Autumn 2023 | 拢150.00 |