ADVANTAGES OF AGE AWARDS CEREMONY 2025

HOXTON HALL, THURSDAY 20TH NOVEMBER, 8 PM.

After the massive success of the inaugural 2023 Advantages of Age Awards, we’re thrilled to announce that the 2025 Awards Ceremony is officially happening!Co-founders Suzanne Noble and Rose Rouse, who launched Advantages of Age in 2016 to challenge the media’s narrative around ageing, are bringing the celebration back bigger and better than ever.The hall is booked, nominations will soon be open, and sponsors are lining up to support this inspiring event.Join us to honour the amazing individuals and organisations championing pro-ageing and proving that life only gets better with time.Don’t miss this unforgettable celebration in 2025!

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WHY Advantages of Age?

Because old is still a dirty word and Advantages of Age believes in celebrating getting older and doing it in style. Because we’re alive and kicking and ready to mark all those inspiring beings and organisations who are part of the societal change that we’d like to see. Let’s big up the change-makers.Because we want to call out ageism at the same time. There are Granny headlines every day, there are people in the press talking constantly about age being just a number, about people looking great for their age, about looking young being the eternal aim. Fuck that, we’re sick of it. Time for an age revolution.The UK’s population is ageing, the 2011 census showed that 49% of the population was aged over 40, while in 2021, it was recorded that 18.6% of people were aged over 65 and it’s getting bigger. Advantages of Age is on a mission to change the record – by not only reclaiming old but also re-imagining it.The Advantages of Age Awards 2025 are about re-visioning age for a modern age.

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Rose Rouse

Journalist, poet and the editor of Advantages of Age. As a journalist, she wrote a piece on the obscenity of Granny headlines to describe older women for the Guardian, as a poet, she often writes about age, sexuality and death, and she commissions pieces, often inspiring personal stories about getting older, for advantagesofage.com She has published four non-fiction books and a poetry pamphlet Tantric Goddess when she was 64.

Suzanne Noble

Co-founder of Advantages of Age, co-creator of Startup School for Seniors, a jazz and blues aficionado with a special love for women artistes, and the host of the sizzling hot podcast, Sex Advice for Seniors. Her mission is to support over 50s to live the life they desire, whatever that means to them.

Mark Elliott

Mark is the co-director of Advantages of Age and co-founder of Startup School for Seniors, who has been a business coach and educator for over ten years, and worked with both young and older entrepreneurs from all walks of life, helping them to spot and overcome any challenges they may be having. He’s a straight talker and, having had his own share of ups and downs in the business world (he exited from a unicorn!), he is determined to help others to avoid making many of the mistakes he has seen firsthand.

Caroline Cadenza

By day, Caroline Cadenza is as an advertising copywriter, living and working in London. By night (and in any spare moment she can grab) she passionately pursues various side hustles including performance poetry, pottery and painting erotic art – as these things bring her joy.In her writing and art, Caroline likes to play with paradoxes such as sad yet funny, playful yet serious, risqué yet innocent. Her poems may make you giggle, then startle you with a twist or a sting in the tail. Her erotic paintings ought to shock you but they get away with it because of their naive style.Especially commissioned by Advantages of Age, the ‘PIPE AND SLIPPERS’ and ‘ROCKING CHAIR’ series have titles that are traditionally associated with being old. However, the imagery subverts these clichés and challenges the conventional view of how retired people may choose to spend their time. After all, our 'rocking chair years' are what we make them.

ANTI-AGEIST ACTIVIST
Jacynth BassettPRO-AGEING ORGANISATION
No Frills Social
Men's ShedDISABILITY ACTIVIST
Penny PepperCLIMATE CHANGE POLLINATOR
Mia MottleySTYLE QUEEN
Sandy PowellSTYLE KING
Jama ElmiDEATH ADVOCATE
The Coffin ClubSTARTUP SCHOOL FOR SENIORS ENTREPRENEUR
Milly and Mima Taylor from the London School of HorticultureINSPIRATIONAL PERSONAL STORY
Louise ButcherAOFA CONTRIBUTOR
Caroline BobbyLATE EMERGING ARTIST/PERFORMER
Nikki KenwardSPORTS GODDESS
Peeps NicholSPORTS GOD
Asanga JudgeWELLNESS CHANGEMAKER
Louise ChunnNON-FICTION BOOK WITH PRO-AGEING MESSAGE
What I Wish People Knew about Dementia by Wendy MitchellDJ
Simon Stanford
Debbie GoltPOET
Wendy Klein
Caroline CadenzaMOST INNOVATIVE SUGGESTION FOR PLACE TO BE BURIED OR CREMATED
Corneilus Muso CrowleyROCK N’ROLL ARTIST WITH THE MOST GLORIOUS GETTING OLDER ATTITUDE
Grace Jones
Patti Smith