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Fraser Doherty is a Scottish entrepreneur from Edinburgh, CEO of a jam company, SuperJam. He is a director of the registered Scottish charity 'The SuperJam Tea Parties'.
Charity work
Doherty, through the SuperJam company, invests in various charitable projects.
The SuperJam Tea Parties is a project established by Doherty in 2008, which runs tea parties for lonely elderly people who live alone or in care homes. The company reports to have run over 120 such events between March 2008 and March 2009, with the largest events attracting over 600 guests..
The company organizes various ‘knitathons’, encouraging the public to knit for good causes. In 2008, several thousand knitted squares were collected, sewn into blankets and sent to orphanages in India. blow jobs
Books
Doherty published his first book on the 5th August 2010; The SuperJam Cookbook. The book contains recipes for making jams, cakes and desserts and was launched with a 'Vintage Tea Party' at the Bethnal Green Working Mens' club in East London.
Awards
Doherty is the 2007 Global Student Entrepreneur of the Year, an international award given to the top student entrepreneur worldwide. Over 750 students from around the world competed in the 2007 'Global Student Entrepreneur Awards'. The second-placed entrant ran the 7th fastest-growing company in Canada, TicketGold and the third ran a company that creates software which manages McDonald’s employees around the world..
Other awards won by Doherty include:
Enterprising Young Brit Award (2004).
Outstanding Young Person of The World Award (2007).
Biggart Baillie Innovation Award (2007).
Start-ups Young Entrepreneur of The Year (2007).
Supernova’s Brightest Young Business (2007).
Short listed for ITV’s ‘Britain’s Best’ Awards (2008).
John Logie Baird Innovation Award (2008).
Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Award (2008).
BT Essence of The Entrepreneur Award (2009).
Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of The Year finalist (2009).
Nectar Business Entrepreneur of The Year (2009).
References
- http://video.stv.tv/bc/entertainment-fivethirty-20090127-super-jam-tea-party/
- http://www.gsea.org/awardinfo/Pages/PastWinners.aspx
- http://www.makeyourmark.org.uk/inspiring_stories/fraser_doherty
- http://www.ejcc.org.uk/news/?page_id=733
- http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/display.var.1218252.0.0.php
- http://www.amenworld.com/static/award_winner.html
- http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:Eupkrf_WRPgJ:www.strath.ac.uk/media/departments/administrativedepartments/researchinnovation/enterprisematters/media_89615_en.pdf+fraser+doherty+supernovas+brightest+young+business&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&client=safari
- http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/article1150145.ece
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/7775200.stm
- ^ http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Winners--display-the-.4744790.jp Cite error: The named reference "The Scotsman" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
- http://www.essenceoftheentrepreneur.co.uk/2009/gallery/gallery08_noflash/#
- http://www.nectar.com/business-sba2009/
External links
- "The First Million"(Forbes, February 2008)
- "SuperJam"
- "College Entrepreneurs of the Year"(Young Money, February 2008)