ADVANTAGES OF AGE AWARDS CEREMONY 2023

HOXTON HALL, THURSDAY 23RD NOVEMBER, 8 PM.

Finally, it is happening! Co-founders of Advantages of Age – created in 2016 to challenge the media narrative around ageing – Suzanne Noble and Rose Rouse have been dreaming about putting on a magnificent Awards Ceremony for years, and now the hall is booked. The nominations and sponsors are rolling in. Please come join us to celebrate all the wonderful people and organisations championing pro-ageing.

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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 2023 are about re-visioning age for a modern age.

Jon Devo - Devoted Creatives

Event sponsor. Writer, Photo+Video Guy, Presenter, Tech Lover. Check out his Instagram @Gadgetsjon if you love gadgets and cool photos.
https://linktree/Gadgetsjon
Twitter/X @jondevo

Freebird Club:

The social travel club for over 50s. Connect with likeminded members in destinations of interest for local tips, advice, meet-ups & homestays. Make new friends, share travel tips with other members, and even arrange a meet-up at your chosen destination.
https://earlybird.freebirdclub.com/
https://www.facebook.com/TheFreebirdClub/
https://www.instagram.com/freebird.club/

Before I Go Solutions

End of Life Planning tools, courses and professional training to help you, your family and your clients prepare well for a good end of life.
https://beforeigosolutions.com/
https://www.facebook.com/beforeigosolutions/ https://www.youtube.com/@beforeigosolutions

Kirkland

With a global platform of approximately 3,500 lawyers in 19 cities across Europe, the United States and Asia, Kirkland & Ellis provides elite legal advice and a relentless commitment to client service. Kirkland is a market-leader in each of its core practice areas, including private equity, M&A and other complex corporate transactions; investment fund formation and alternative asset management; restructurings; high-stakes commercial and intellectual property litigation; and government, regulatory and internal investigations. To learn more, please visit www.kirkland.com

Chase de Vere

Chase de Vere are one of the country’s leading independent financial advisers for 50 years. Some of their clients have been with them for decades. That is because, as well as offering high-calibre, unconstrained advice, they continually strive to ensure their clients are satisfied. Their financial advice spans a wide range of services, including pensions, wills, care funding and wealth management, as well as business protection, employee benefits and workplace financial education. Visit www.chasedevere.co.uk to find out more.

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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.

Leslie Herman

Writer and a journalist, with a background in performing arts, media, and arts marketing. A contract in the creativity development department at Age UK and turning 50 occurred simultaneously, triggering a realisation that she had joined the older people’s club in more ways than one. This enabled her to embrace aging conceptually, figuratively, mentally, emotionally, physically, creatively, spiritually, graciously and fearlessly earlier than many. She is a pro-active advocate for healthy ageing and wholeheartedly supports AofA in its crusade to represent and reflect aging in all its glory. She is currently writing a work of fiction, and one of non-fiction about swimming.

Lulu Laidlaw-Smith

Visionary in the technology industry - a qualified business developer across Tech, Financial Services, FinTech, FMCG, Retail, and Hospitality. Supportive of brand owners in identifying their commercial goals in line with sales, business growth and transformation. A passionate, honest and open personality.

Harold Mandel

Harold is a Canadian who spent 30 years working across East Asia before arriving in London 4 years ago. His Family Office business assists clients with such issues as succession planning, impact investing and business strategy. On a personal note, he is a Board member of the Haverstock School Career Network and Mentor for Career Ready, a social mobility charity. When time permits he is also a jazz drummer focusing on swing music.

Linda Devo

Linda Devo, 53 year old Nichiren Buddhist is a visual artist, maker, art and design educator who also DJs as Devolicious, one of the kick-ass, Booty Bass DJ collective. Growing up in Ghana and England has made for a rich and fertile cultural background for Linda to draw on, forming her into a colourful, nature and life loving, libertarian and activist for people's right to be. Devo is co-founder of award-winning KiKi Bristol, a volunteer-led collective creating safe social space events led by and for the QTIPoC community of Bristol and a member of Queer Vision, Bristol Pride’s film festival. Most recently, Linda left the South for the beautiful Fylde coast and is enjoying exploring the decidedly not grim North!

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.

Phil Jordan

Phil Jordan is a serial tech entrepreneur with over 20 years experience building start-ups. Phil founded Essential Travel, which grew to be the biggest independent travel extras supplier in the UK before being acquired by Thomas Cook in 2010. Since then he has built businesses in Ibiza, Singapore, Portugal and London and is now Co-Founder and CTO of Freebird Club, The social travel club for over 50s.

Jon Devo - Devoted Creatives

Event sponsor. Writer, Photo+Video Guy, Presenter, Tech Lover. Check out his Instagram @Gadgetsjon if you love gadgets and cool photos.
https://linktree/Gadgetsjon
Twitter/X @jondevo

Freebird Club:

The social travel club for over 50s. Connect with likeminded members in destinations of interest for local tips, advice, meet-ups & homestays. Make new friends, share travel tips with other members, and even arrange a meet-up at your chosen destination.
https://earlybird.freebirdclub.com/
https://www.facebook.com/TheFreebirdClub/
https://www.instagram.com/freebird.club/

Before I Go Solutions

End of Life Planning tools, courses and professional training to help you, your family and your clients prepare well for a good end of life.
https://beforeigosolutions.com/
https://www.facebook.com/beforeigosolutions/ https://www.youtube.com/@beforeigosolutions

Kirkland

With a global platform of approximately 3,500 lawyers in 19 cities across Europe, the United States and Asia, Kirkland & Ellis provides elite legal advice and a relentless commitment to client service. Kirkland is a market-leader in each of its core practice areas, including private equity, M&A and other complex corporate transactions; investment fund formation and alternative asset management; restructurings; high-stakes commercial and intellectual property litigation; and government, regulatory and internal investigations. To learn more, please visit www.kirkland.com.

Chase de Vere

Chase de Vere are one of the country’s leading independent financial advisers for 50 years. Some of their clients have been with them for decades. That is because, as well as offering high-calibre, unconstrained advice, they continually strive to ensure their clients are satisfied. Their financial advice spans a wide range of services, including pensions, wills, care funding and wealth management, as well as business protection, employee benefits and workplace financial education. Visit www.chasedevere.co.uk to find out more.

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

Cindy Gallup
Jacynth Bassett
Adam Duncan
Jackie Marshall-Cyrus
Miriam Margolyes

Inspirational Personal Story

Jon Privett
Nadia Chambers
Jane Dotchins
Louise Butcher
Ishmahil Blagrove
Maria Arpa
Alison Goldie

Non-Fiction Book with a
Pro-Ageing Message

What I Wish People Knew about Dementia by Wendy Mitchell
Age Proof by Rose-Anne Kenny
Revolting Women by Dr. Lucy Ryan
Retirement Rebel by Siobhan Daniels

Climate Change Pollinator

Bill McKibben
Bel Jacobs
Mia Mottley
Caroline Lucas
Jackie Carpenter

Advantages of Age Contributor

Caroline Bobby
Ruth Fox
Lili Free
Michele Kirsch
Nadia Chambers
Clare Cooper
Ivan Pope
Peter Marriott
Serena Constance
Elizabeth Shanley
Becca Leathlean

Wellness/Change-Maker

Louise Chunn
Louise Bowditch
Tom Morley
Alan Dolan
Sarah and Anthony Pletts

Style Queen

Kathleen Patricia Keefe
Mindy Fradkin
Ani Wilsher
Jeanie Haydon
Risa Johnson
Sandy Powell

Style King

Jed Novick
Richard Kaby
David 'Grey Fox'
Jama Elmi
Nick Treadwell
Farouque Abdela

Emerging Late Artiste/Performer

Elainea Emmott
Mish Aminoff Moon
Bruce Currie and Gilly Hanna
Suzi Clark
Josephine Pembroke
Nikki Kenward
Ray Jones

DJ

Debbie Golt
Becca Leathlen
Marcia Carr
Linda Devo
Simon Stanford
Chris Sullivan

Poet

Wendy Klein
Alan Wolfson
Caroline Cadenza
Attila the Stockbroker
John Hegley

Disability Campaigner

Mat Fraser
Penny Pepper
John Knight
Paula Peters
Iyiola Olafimihan
Tara Flood

Suggestions of the Most Innovative Place to be Buried/Cremated

Ben Cornish
Paul Jeremy
Kevin Allen
Cornelius Muso Crowley
Jane Duncan Rogers

Rock 'n Roll Artist with the most Glorious Getting Older Attitude

Patti Smith
Keith Richards
Chrissie Hynde
Grace Jones
Toyah Wilcox
Suzi Quatro
Peaches

Startup School Entrepreneur of the Year

Max Wallace
Helen Smith
Patricia Gestoso
Annette Hercules
Steve Anyiwo
Milly & Jemima Taylor

Sports God

Asanga Anand
Bill Cooksey
Ted Clifton
Len Collingwood

Sports Goddess

Peeps Nicol
Makala Jones
Iris Holder
Sue Yeomans

Pro-Ageing Organisation

Crone Club
Older Women Rock
Re-Engage
The Together Project
The No Frills Social
Men's Sheds

Death Advocate

Kicking the Bucket & Burial Ground Owner
Coffin Club
Living Well, Dying Well
Lifting the Lid Festival
Companion Voices
Antonia Rolls

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