Brighton start-up wins coveted DBACE Award celebrating entrepreneurship during Covid-19

Brighton-based company ‘Enayball’ have won a coveted award that celebrates ‘change makers’ in business despite the Covid-19 crisis and shrinking economy.
By Charlotte Harding
Published 2nd Jul 2020, 15:49 GMT
Updated 16th Jul 2020, 15:33 GMT
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Eli and Pete of Enayball

The winners for the Made For Good Deutsche Bank Awards for Creative Entrepreneurs Awards was announced on June 30.

It harnesses and celebrates innovative and creative enterprises that are championing social change and entrepreneurship at a time where the UK is facing an economic downturn.

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Enayball, created by students at Brighton University, is a one-of-a-kind visual arts tool created to enable anyone with a physical disability, even the most severely paralysed person, to create art.

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Founders Eli Heath & Pete Barr have designed a wheelchair attachment that enables the user to lift the nib off the floor remotely - combatting involuntary movements or limited grip/arm strength, e.g. Cerebral Palsy - to create large, expressive paintings.

Enayball have worked with disabled artists, most notably Alison Lapper MBE, to empower people to pursue careers in the arts. Enayball has enabled art therapy and rehabilitation for Stroke patients, whilst increasing dexterity and can also be used to manage behavioural issues (e.g. Aspergers).

Five innovative creative businesses have been awarded a share of £50,000 and ongoing world-class mentoring and support from leading UK experts to develop their businesses despite the Covid-19 blow to creative industries.

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DBACE’s latest competition opened up in January 2020 with 428 applicants. Despite the onset of a lockdown and Covid-19 pandemic, the panel of established industry leaders and DBACE are proud to announce this year’s winners - set to launch or grow their social enterprises in the era of “The New

Normal”.

The judging panel included Jude Kelly CBE, founder and director of The WOW Foundation, Farooq Chaudry OBE, co-founder and producer of Akram Khan Company, Lareena Hilton, global head of Brand Communications &CSR at Deutsche Bank AG, and Kevin Osborne, founder and CEO of MeWe360.

With the creative industries contributing more than £100 billion to the UK economy every year, DBACE supports young UK-based entrepreneurs driven by a mission to build and sustain social value through enterprise. The programme is at the heart of Deutsche Bank’s global social enterprise programme, Made for Good, and has been delivered in partnership with not-for-profit creative industries incubator MeWe360 since 2019.

Lareena Hilton, global head of Brand Communications & CSR, Deutsche Bank, said: “2020 has been a year like no other for everyone. The impact of COVID-19 for the creative industries is set to be catastrophic, but some of the most innovative thinkers make up the sector. These five winners have shown clear passion and drive, which combined with the support of DBACE will help ensure they continue to tackle significant issues in society, despite the hurdles.”

For more information, visit enayball.com and for the awards visit https://dbace.org/

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