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ESG LEADER AWARD

WINNER

Presented by: Andrew Skipper, SA Chamber Director

JEREMY FORD Jeremy Ford is the lead trustee and engagement. He also actively manages

Director & Trustee, Qhubeka (UK) director of the Qhubeka Charity’s UK Qhubeka’s most high-profile global
and European presence. Qhubeka is partnership: being the international
one of South Africa’s most impactful charity of the Tour de France and
charities: fabricating and distributing Tour de France Femmes. In the last 18
their unique new bicycles to months, Jeremy has personally, and
schoolchildren and key workers to through the initiatives he drives, raised
improve their social mobility – truly over GB£100,000 for the charity, putting
the ‘S’ in ESG, and with over 110,000 well over 350 children on bicycles. He is
bicycles now distributed and lives already working on a Q1 2024 auction
changed. of signed Tour de France winners’
jerseys; organising a large team of
Whereas most trustees are in place for fundraisers for the ‘Ride London’ 100-
mainly governance reasons, alongside mile charity bike ride in May 2024; and
Jeremy’s ‘day-job’ as head of BD/ major activations during two key stages
Marketing for an elite law firm - Jeremy of the 2024 Tour de France and Tour de
plays a highly active role in donor France Femmes.
relationship development, large event
fundraising, media and social media Jeremy Ford | LinkedIn

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