Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, the creator and owner of the easy family of brands (www.easy.com, www.easyHistory.info) is offering cash prizes totalling £300,000 to three young entrepreneurs in the UK for the third year.
The awards will be open from 5 January 2026 for owners of start-ups younger than 34 years old born in 1992 or later. The closing date for entries is 5pm GMT on Monday 23 February 2026. Businesses must have been registered at UK Companies House in the last five years since 2021, with accounts showing revenues of at least £500,000 per year.
Applicant entrepreneurs must be a director of the company and own shares of more than 50%. The overall winner will win a prize of £150,000 to invest in their business, with a second prize of £100,000 and third prize of £50,000.
Applications are via a downloadable form from www.stelios.foundation and emailed to maya.turnbull@stelios.com by 5pm GMT on Monday 23 February 2026. The winners being announced by Sir Stelios at a ceremony via Zoom on 31st March, 2026.
Last year, a total of 180 applications were received – more than double the year before. Last year’s winner Ayan Mohamed said: ‘These awards are so useful to a young British entrepreneur like me. The prize money has been so vital to my company Digitech Oasis this past year, but the recognition and publicity from being associated with Sir Stelios has also been such a big boost for us.’
The Stelios Philanthropic Foundation which is launching and funding the award has the stated mission of supporting a very diverse range of good causes but “close to home” i.e., in the local communities that Sir Stelios and his family have lived and worked and of course the UK is one of them. The foundation has been running very successful similar entrepreneur’s awards in Greece, Cyprus, Ireland, Monaco and France supporting job creation in the local economies for many years. The majority of the profits of easyGroup go to the Foundation.
Applications: Emailed to maya.turnbull@stelios.com no later than 5om on Monday 23 February 2026.
Media: David Cracknell/Georgia Tatnall/Lucy Thomas, Tavistock Communications, easyGroup@tavistock.co.uk.
To download the application form please click here.
Visit: www.stelios.foundation for more information about the Awards.