Judges

Kathryn Corrick

Kathryn Corrick is a journalist and consultant in digital media with a special interest in the power new technologies give to people and organisations to make a difference. Her clients range from very small one person start-ups to large corporations and organisations. Up until last year Kathryn ran EdgeUpstarts as part of her role as online manager at the New Statesman and kindly agreed to come back to moderate the awards again this year.

Prior to working at the New Statesman Kathryn worked as a freelance web producer and press officer in the voluntary and education sector. And she is also a trustee of a small charity called the International Student Trust.

Andy Powell

Andy Powell is the chief executive of Edge. He has worked in a wide range of organisations including a college, small business and IBM, before becoming chief executive of a UK-wide charity, Action Resource Centre. As chief executive of NTO National Council he was responsible for significantly raising the status of National Training Organisations and their eventual transformation into the current Sector Skills Councils. In this role he sat on a number of government committees advising on areas such as foundation degrees, occupational standards and NVQs. Andy has been involved in Edge from the very beginning and firmly believes that the only way to change the education system is to understand the system from the inside but operate from outside it – on the Edge.

Cliff Prior

Cliff Prior is the chief executive of UnLtd, the Foundation for Social Entrepreneurs. UnLtd is dedicated to unleashing the energies of exceptional people to transform their communities: we call these people social entrepreneurs.

The charity is trustee of the Millennium Awards Trust, a permanent endowment created by the Millennium Commission. UnLtd uses these funds to support nearly 1000 people a year who are just starting out as social entrepreneurs, and 60 to 100 people a year at a more advanced stage. UnLtd has also been successful in attracting funds for additional programmes, targeting specific communities, areas of work, and with the Big Boost programme, young people.

In its 4 years of operation, UnLtd has helped over 3500 people with £10m in cash and as much again in training and support work, creating the world’s largest network of social entrepreneurs. Cliff, 49, joined UnLtd from mental health charity Rethink, where he was Chief Executive for over 8 years. Under his leadership, Rethink grew to become the UK's largest and most influential charity in mental health. Rethink is both a membership based advocacy organisation and a social enterprise delivering health and social care services under contract.

Allison Ogden-Newton

Allison Ogden-Newton is the Chief Executive of Social Enterprise London, London’s leading agency supporting and promoting social enterprise throughout the Capital.

Allison has successfully promoted social enterprise to a wide spectrum of London’s agencies and decision makers, raising awareness and creating a community of support for future development through highly effective networking and strong strategic partnerships. Whilst at SEL, Allison has worked to increase the understanding for social enterprise, particularly in social accounting, marketing and business support.

Prior to working for SEL, Allison was the CEO at Women’s Education in Building (WEB), which was a voluntary organisation set up to support women by providing education and training in the construction trades. It was while at WEB that Allison became interested in social enterprise and set up, building etc a project that offered struggling entrepreneurs incubator office space, access to start-up finance and business mentoring.

Allison is a Board member of the National organisations the Social Enterprise Coalition (SEC) and the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntry Organisations (ACEVO) and has recently been appointed a member of the Government’s Women’s Enterprise Taskforce.

Evan Edwards

Evan Edwards is the co-founder and Director of Social Enterprise at Barnardo’s. Prior to his move to the third sector Evan was the CEO of Nordic Energy, a multinational electricity company and throughout his career has gained a wealth of commercial experience in positions ranging from financial trading in derivatives to corporate strategy and running mergers and acquisitions projects. Evan has a deep personal interest in the welfare of children; as a father of four children of whom two are disabled and one is adopted. He is seeking to make a difference to the lives of vulnerable children in the UK by bringing his business know-how into the voluntary sector.