About

Ben Wintour is a social entrepreneur, experienced Creative and a judge on the Social Entreprenuer Index (2022).

He was listed in 2020 by Forbes as a 30 Under 30 social entrepreneur alongside Greta Thunberg, by the BBC worldwide as a person ‘changing the world’, by Red Bull as a key change maker and by Men’s Health as an ‘affable bloke’.

Ben’s real passion lies in working with teams to come up with and incubate creative ideas that make a positive difference in the world.

Throughout his career Ben has launched initiatives and campaigns that look to tackle social and health issues including knife crime, poor mental health, smoking, blood shortage and climate change.

Most notable initiatives include Steel Warriors and Temple.

Steel Warriors is an anti knife crime charity that melt down knives taken off the street and recycle them into free outdoor community gyms. The gyms have been described by Men’s Health as the ‘best gyms in the world’. Ben dreamt up the idea with his co-founder and led the charities’ first campaign, reaching over 800 million people worldwide in over 42 different countries with no media spend. He also built a multi-disciplinary team, forged over 20 successful pro bono partnerships and led the charity to secure a multi-million-pound investment to scale nationwide.

Temple was a B2B mental wellbeing app that offered employees an engaging daily workout for the mind, lending from habit forming technologies and removing the stigma that so often deters workers from engaging with current services. Ben dreamt up the product’s unique vision and design and worked alongside his co-founder, former Microsoft veteran Nikolaz Foucaud and leading Cambridge neuroscientist, Dr Becky Inkster to bring an MVP to life. The Temple app was used in over five different countries, had 3X higher user engagement than industry standard and a 95% approval rating with users. Despite some promising results, the team decided not to scale Temple after a change in investor expectations at ‘Seed’ due to Covid-19.

Ben consults startups on their growth and has also been developing campaign and branding ideas for some of the worlds most valuable brands including Amazon, Uber, Goldman Sachs, Ebay, General Electric, Sky, UBS, KFC, Red Bull, Tinder and the NHS.