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We are delighted to welcome Eunice onto the team, a graduate chemist from Imperial College London. She will be helping with the final stages of product development as well as scaling production.
Along with 13 other startups, Jelly Drops was inducted onto The EIT Health Headstart Programme in Dublin this July. The program was created to support early-stage start-ups and SMEs in developing their new products and services.
We're excited to announce that Jelly Drops was the winner of this year's Imagine IF! global accelerator. We've been fortunate enough to receive a number of awards recently, the money from which is helping us get to market quicker!
Thanks for the NACC for inviting us to speak at their conference in Doncaster. It was inspiring to listen to the stories of all the speakers, and it was an honour to meet Wendy Mitchell (Author of ‘Somebody I used to Know’).
A massive thank you to everyone that voted for us - Jelly Drops were awarded both the Audience vote & the People’s Choice Award! We made a number of exciting connections that will help to get Jelly Drops to the people that need them as quickly as possible.
Thank you to the HRH Duke Of York and the #pitchatpalace team for putting on a great event at St. James Palace.
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The Great Exhibition Road Festival 2019 brings together science and the arts in a unique programme of creative workshops, talks, exhibitions and performances - all in the spirit of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert’s vision for the Great Exhibition, 200 years on from when they were born. Jelly Drops will be exhibiting on Sunday 30th June from 11am-5pm at the V&A’s Museum of food. Best of all - it’s free!
We're delighted to announce our partnership with Alzheimer's Society through their Innovation Accelerator. The Alzheimer's Society is the UK's leading dementia support and research charity and we will be working together over the next 12 months to improve the lives of people affected by dementia.
Vote Jelly Drops for the Pitch@Palace People's Choice Award!
Founded by The Duke of York, Pitch@Palace guides, helps and connects Entrepreneurs and early-stage businesses with potential supporters, including CEOs, Influencers, Angels, Mentors and Business Partners.
Jelly Drops will be pitching at St James’s Palace on 12 June, 2019 for Pitch@Palace 11.0.
We recently carried out an extended trial in a London care home to better understand how Jelly Drops could be integrated into care homes - with fantastic results! This trial has provided invaluable insights as we build towards launching the product. Jelly Drops will also be made available for purchase to individuals as well as care homes.
We’re excited to be speaking at YFood London Food Tech Week 2019 this month. Please join us on Monday 20th May at the Banking Hall and say hi!
Thank you to everyone who came to our stall at the Dementia Care and Nursing Expo in March. It was great to get such positive feedback on the latest version of Jelly Drops.
Jelly Drops made it into the Top 5 ‘Tech’ finalists of the 2019 The Mayor's Entrepreneur competition - here are the judges sampling our latest prototype at last week’s final. Congratulations to the winners - fellow Imperial College alumni Spyras.
Our TEDx talk from back in January has just been released online. The event considered the topic ‘uncharted’ and Lewis’ speech details his journey in developing Jelly Drops.
We recently won the IMAGINEIF! London Regional Finals and as a result will be pitching in the Global finals in Cambridge in June.
We are live on Instagram! Follow us @jellydropshydration
A JustGiving page set up by Caron Sprake, has raised almost £10,000. A huge thanks to everyone who donated.
Jelly Drops have made it through to the IMAGINEIF! London Regional Finals with a chance to win a prize of $10,000. The event will be held in London on 19th February. Sign up here to attend.
We are delighted to welcome Chris Browne, Co-Founder of Ted Baker has joined the Jelly Drops team as an investor and adviser. Chris brings a wealth of knowledge from his role as Global Retail Director for one of the worlds largest fashion retail companies.
Jelly Drops has been recognised as one of the best student design projects in the world at the Global Grad Show in Dubai, as one of 11 finalists chosen from all 150 exhibitors.
We now have an experienced and dedicated team working around the clock to bring Jelly Drops to market as soon as possible. Lewis, Claudia and Nick met whilst studying on the Innovation Design Engineering (MA/MSc) at Imperial College London and The Royal College of Art.
Jelly Drops have been announced as winner of The Meaning-Centred Design Award in the Student - Healthcare category. This award recognises those design innovations that master the emotional and cultural meanings that drive consumer behaviour.
Jelly Drops have been featured on Sky News. Watch back here.
Lewis Hornby talks about Jelly Drops on BBC World Service radio as part of their “People Fixing The World” series. Listen to ‘Smart Stimulation for People with Dementia’ here.
Jelly Drops will be exhibiting at the Dementia, Care & Nursing Home Expo at the NEC in Birmingham on 26th and 27th March alongside 300 other cutting edge exhibitors. Come and say hi and try a Jelly Drop!
Jelly Drops have featured on BBC TV News. Watch a clip here.
Jelly Drops were featured in UK's most read newspaper the Metro. Read the full article here.
Jelly Drops were awarded the prestigious DESIRE award for ‘Social Impact’ by the Dyson School School of Design Engineering at Imperial College London for Jelly Drops. The award is given to individual students or groups who have had an outstanding piece of design work.
Jelly Drops have been awarded the prestigious Helen Hamlyn Snowdon Award for Disability. Judge's comment: "I was really moved by the very personal understanding of a problem and the excellent scientific and compassionate solution – combining essential hydration with a bit of joy"
