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Entrepreneur in Residence winner announced

Congratulations to Amelia, this year’s winner of the Milton Abbey ‘Entrepreneur-in-Residence’ prize competition for her handmade washbags, manufactured with recycled fabrics.

​Amelia will receive her £2,000 award at Speech Day this year. Awarding the prize, Milton Abbey’s 2017 ‘Entrepreneur-in-Residence’ Nick Wheeler, founder and CEO of Charles Tyrwhitt, felt that Amelia was a worthy winner. He said, "Amelia’s original product was an impressive concept – the lining was made of shower curtain material, the outer layer was re-cycled dress fabric, and only the zip was new, but it needed further development and attention in terms of its stitching and quality of finish. Further down the line Amelia has come back with a really well made quality product which will look good and last."