This year’s new businesses who won grants from the Jumpstart programme have been announced. 

The Jumpstart programme invites new businesses to make a pitch to a panel of judges for funding opportunities.  

The Business and IP Centre Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, BIPC, have confirmed who won grants at a special ceremony held at the Old Bridge Hotel in Huntingdon on Friday, December 2. 

This year’s winners, presented with their prizes at the special ceremony, for The BIPC Jumpstart winners for 2022 are: 

Jonathan Strauss from garden maintenance business Glasshouse Gardening who received the platinum grant worth £10,000. 

Dexter D'Apollonio from second-hand streetwear and vintage designer clothes seller Get Weird Garms who received the gold grant worth £6,000. 

Toby Gardner from gig-booking service Gigin who was awarded the silver grant worth £4,000. 

Five other bronze grants worth £1,000 were also collected on behalf of new businesses, these were: 

Pauline Leung who runs a confidence coaching business for East and Southeast Asian women. 

Liliia Pochkun and Olena Sydoruk from traditional Ukrainian borsch soup company Borsch to go. 

Katie Barker from decluttering and hoarding specialists The Sorting Sage. 

Simon Clark from Social Media Wow, an online portal offering free and paid resources, subscriptions, videos, training and management for business owners and start-ups in Cambridgeshire. 

And lastly, Inge Hunter from content creation and marketing company Clue Content. 

BIPC also worked with intellectual property attorney Venner Shipley LLP to offer part-funded trade mark grants to Simon Clark, Pauline Leung and Stephen Blackwell, founder of High Street Safari. 

The three BIPC Jumpstart pitch judges were founder and chief executive of ABC Life Support Danielle Bridge, hub manager for Growth Works Chris George and CEO for DogNBone Paul Pankhurst. 

Platinum prize winner Jonathan Strauss said: "This feels fantastic! I'm very honoured to be here tonight and to get this award is amazing, it's still sinking in really.  

“Gardening is my passion and having won this award I can look to drive my business forwards, so I'm excited for the future." 

The Jumpstart programme was developed by the BIPC and launched in November 2021offering grants, resources and support designed to help start-up businesses get set and grow.