Your Weird Is YOUR Winning Edge.
Wednesday 4 November 2026, Daytime (because 9pm PJs are a vibe)
Midlands (venue TBC)
Welcome to the UK's first awards for founders who refuse to conform.
Not a stiff black-tie dinner. Not snooze-fest categories. A bold, vibrant day for the
rule breakers, category creators and brilliantly different.
This is not just an event. It's a movement.
The Weird AF Awards is a delicious and rebellious platform that’s built on the philosophy that your ‘WEIRD’ is your winning edge.
Every nomination, every share, every sponsor announcement and every tag grows the audience, builds the movement and creates a fabulous community of audacious business owners, that grows year on year.
Most awards celebrate the wrong founders.
Most awards reward businesses for conformity.
Polished profiles. Safe, predictable success stories. Vanity metrics and outward shine & sparkle.
And then the founders who actually changed things, the neurodivergent, the pivoting, the values-first, get passed over. Every single time.
Nominate someone
The Weird AF Awards exist to fix that.
These awards are for the founders who:
→ Turned an unconventional idea into a thriving, real business
→ Built loyal communities instead of chasing the algorithm
→ Led with values, humour, honesty and heart, even when it cost them
→ Proved that success comes from standing out, not fitting in
→ Refused to sand themselves down for someone else's version of 'professional'
→ Created real impact in their communities, not just their metrics
Just want to attend the event?
Buy your ticket here!
Includes access to the day, supporting and cheering on the awards, goodie bag & nibbles (oh and the opportunity to connect with some AMAZING individuals...)
Save my space at the awards now >>Got a group of 5 or more? Drop us a note and we'll do you a group dazzle discount...
Email us at [email protected].
Look, this is not a stiff black-tie dinner.
⚡ MAIN CHARACTER ENERGY
Every person in the room owns their story. No supporting characters here.
🎙️ UNFILTERED STORIES
Real journeys. Real pivots. The lows that built the whys. None of the highlight-reel nonsense.
🎨 COLOUR, ENERGY & INDIVIDUALITY
Come as you are. Whatever version walks through the door is the right one.
🏆 AWARD TROPHIES WORTH TALKING ABOUT
Not another boring glass block. These trophies become your biggest talking point.
🤝 REAL CONNECTION
The kind of room where you finally find people who get it.
🦓 THE DAZZLE EFFECT
A dazzle of zebras is stronger together. We celebrate community, not competition.
13 awards. Zero boring categories.
Built to celebrate the kind of founder the business world usually overlooks but who ABSO-FRICKINGLUTELY needs their trumpet blowing. Toot.
Every category recognises a different flavour of brilliantly different.
👑 The Main Character Award
For the leader that owns the room, leads with integrity, stands out as a brand and is completley unforgetable.
🔥 The Disrupter Award
For the one that goes against the grain and isn’t afraid to make a noise. The break the norms, change things up and still lead with kindness. Does things others arent doing, often in the face of opposition and sneering looks.
🐾 The Unfiltered Baddie Award
For the one thats competley themselves, the good, the messy, the silly and the feral. Their genuine nature makes them the obvious choice for half the room and thats what makes them special.
🎬 The Plot Twist Award
For the one thats made the pivot, had a change, moved from one space to the next, done a 180 or is doing something neither you nor they expected.
💚 The Ethical AF Award
For the one thats doing things ethically even when they aren’t being watched. Their business is giving back. They consider the bigger picture politically, environmentally, in how they operate with their customers or clients and they choose to do things the ‘right’ way over the easy way.
👀 The Beyond the Optics Award
For the one that is all about inclusivity not because they think it’s the fashionable choice or will make them look good but because it’s who they are. They question their own bias, they look for ways to have diversity in their spaces and they continue to learn.
✨ The Dazzle Award
For the one that is bring together the ‘dazzle’. They are the connectors, the networkers, the one that will introduce you or recommend you and they may even run their own group. This is about being a good egg in the community and giving a sh*t about others.
📈 The Level Up Award
For the one who who’s making steady progress, thats leveling up and doing it imperfectly. You recognise their progress and you have watched them build a solid foundation. You see them growing, building and evolving and you’re cheering their tenacious spirit.
🦁 The Brave AF Award
For the one who stepped up this year. They were bold, brave in one area or many, they did things they didn’t think they could and they did them any way. They brought fear with them and even when they ‘shook’, that corageous step they still took!
🗣️ The 'I Said What I Said' Award
For the one who isn’t afraid to speak their truth, speak up, say what’s in their heart & stand up for others. You read their post & think ‘I wish I was brave enough to say that’ or ‘thats exactly what I was thinking!’ The one you can’t wait to see what they have to say on a topic and you know would stand up for you in a heartbeat.
🌱 The Bounce Back Award
For the one who is here against the odds. Set backs, burn out, failed launches and chaos. Sh*t has gone down and yet they dodged and weaved, healed and grieved to get to being the audacious badass they are.
❤️ The "Not a D*ck" Award
For the one with the big heart. The kindest soul in the wild west. They are heart centred, deliciously generous and in every room people say something nice about them. That doesn’t make them soft, in fact it’s their beiggest strength and their reputation walks ahead of them in every room
🌀 The Unhinged & Unstoppable Award
For the one that does everything higgeldy piggeldy, hanging by a thread, last minute and dodging bullets and yet somehow, f*cking magical. You watch their feral carnage with startled awe and their magnetic flamboyance draws everyone in.
Sponsored by:
More sponsors to be announced soon...
Nominate someone who deserves this.
This is your chance to celebrate a business owner who truly bloody deserves it!
Register your nomination interest below. Then, share the love.
Tag the founder you're nominating. Make them feel seen. Every nomination becomes a social post, a story, a moment of earned reach.
Nominate here >>📣 When you are done, grab this caption and post it to shout about why you have nominated your person...let's share the love!
"I just nominated [NAME] for The Weird AF Awards, the UK's first awards for founders who refuse to conform. Because their weird really IS their winning edge. 🏆🦓 Nominations are open at [URL] #WeirdAFAwards #WeirdIsTheWinningEdge"
Copy and post to Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook or X. Tag the founder you're nominating.
How the nomination loop works:
- You register your nomination interest below
- You share the caption above tagging your nominee publicly
- Your nominee sees it, and shares it to their network too
- The Weird AF Awards reach expands with every single nomination
Just want to attend the event?
Buy your ticket here!
Includes access to the day, supporting and cheering on the awards, goodie bag & nibbles (oh and the opportunity to connect with some AMAZING individuals...)
Save my space at the awards now >>Got a group of 5 or more? Drop us a note and we'll do you a group dazzle discount...
Email us at [email protected]..
This is not charity. This is audience access.
Sponsors of the Weird AF Awards get direct, contextual access to a room of high-intent, values-driven founders who are actively building businesses and making buying decisions.
The most targeted founder audience in the UK.
Not followers. Decision makers.
Sponsor Us
Just want to attend the event?
Buy your ticket here!
Includes access to the day, supporting and cheering on the awards, goodie bag & nibbles (oh and the opportunity to connect with some AMAZING individuals...)
Save my space at the awards now >>DAZZLE SPONSOR
£500+ VAT · 20 spots available
→ Footer on the Awards Sales Page 'With special thanks to'
→ Goody bag contribution + 2 complimentary tickets to the awards
→ Announcement post on both Charlotte & Holly's Instagram and Facebook pages
→ Email announcement to both audiences with links to your website/social media
→ Guaranteed contributor to the Awards Goodie bags
→ I'm ready to DAZZLEZEBRA
SPONSOR
£150+ VAT · 20 spots available
→ Guaranteed contributor to the Awards Goodie bags
→ Complimentary ticket to the awards
→ Story post alongside other Zebra sponsors
→ It's ZEBRA time babySOLD OUT - SORRY!
MAIN CHARACTER SPONSOR
£1,250+ VAT · 2 spots only, exclusive → 2:1 strategy Zoom with Holly & Charlotte to maximise your sponsorship
→ Insta Live with Holly (30K followers) sharing why you're the MAIN sponsor
→ 1 social post + story promoting your paid offer on both Holly & Charlotte's pages
→ Email announcement to BOTH audiences, Charlotte AND Holly's full lists, including your offer
→ 4 complimentary tickets to the Awards + goody bags
→ Sign and/or video screen at the awards advertising your business
→ 'As sponsored by' placement on the awards sales page
→ 25 word ad on the confirmation email to ALL attendees
→ Named every time the awards is discussed and shared
Two neurodivergent powerhouses. One movement.
These awards have been put together by two women with untraditional routes to their own successes.
The lows drove their why.
Together they built the Weird AF Mastermind in early 2026, united in the belief that there is not one route to a thriving business, and that the right support changes everything.
And now they are ready to blow up the business world and celebrate the unsung heroes of business.
Holly Matthews
The Happy Me Project
Former TV actress turned award-winning author and Intuitive Psychology Coach. Holly has been getting visible since the age of 11. Her TEDx Talk has half a million views. Her books are published by Bloomsbury. She has appeared in Psychologies, Hello, OK, The Guardian, the Mirror and been interviewed by the BBC, ITV, Channel 5, Disney and Nickelodeon.
She's also a widowed mum of two who built her business through chemotherapy, brain surgeries, grief, ADHD chaos and premmie babies. The lows became the why.
Instagram: 30K+ followers · TEDx: 500K views · Bloomsbury author · ADHD
Charlotte Wibberley
Revenue on Repeat®
Repeat revenue, founder dependency and launch strategist. 13+ years behind the scenes of multi-million pound launches & high converting evergreen funnels & lead gen strategies. Founder of Revenue on Repeat®, Author of Scale to Success: Without the Stress.
Calm power. Strategy with soul. Freedom-fuelled ambition - and zero time for hierarchy, cliques or industry BS. Charlotte helps successful founders scale without burnout or founder dependency.
Revenue on Repeat® · 13+ years · Social Following: 10K+ followers · No.1 Bestselling Author · ADHD
Awards Year One.
Let's Go.
We want the Weird AF Awards to compound in value every single year.
Year One sponsors, Year One nominees and Year One winners become part of the founding story, the people who were in the room when this began.
Being here now is the start of your own Weird AF legacy.
Sponsor Us >>Meet our Sponsors!
Main Character Sponsor
Maddy Alexander-Grout
Maddy Alexander-Grout is an ADHD Business and Visibility Coach and Author of best selling book Mad About Money- managing finances and life and with ADHD. She has free community called The Maddyverse for neurodivergent entrepreneurs focussed on money life and business.
Maddy is a huge advocate for being yourself whatever that looks like. And unapologetically lives her life and runs her business in line with her values.
Her mission in life is to amplify neurodivergent voices and help people to be successful loving their brain.
We are so thrilled to have her as our first Main Character Sponsor!
Main Character Sponsor
Hali Jafari
Hali is not here for the polished, overhyped version of AI. She works with the people who’ve been quietly holding everything together long before AI became a buzzword. Small businesses. Social enterprises. CICs. Founder-led organisations doing meaningful work on tight margins, without a tech team, a big budget, or time to waste on strategies that look good on paper but fall apart in real life.
With over 20 years in the creative industries, Hali didn’t come into AI through code or complexity. So when AI started taking over the conversation and everyone else was shouting about tools, automation, and scale, she noticed something different. Advice that simply wasn’t built for the people she knew.
Hali is here for the ones doing things differently and we are thrilled to have her as a sponsor.
Dazzle Sponsor
Ana Bonasera
Ana Bonasera is a self confessed drama queen, loves anything that sparkles (disco balls in particular), late diagnosed ADHDer wife to a legend and mum to 5 neurodivergent kids.
When one of her kids hit crisis and school mentioned ADHD, she hyper focused so hard that she got three qualifications in ADHD and signed up the whole family for a diagnosis.
She is committed to paying it forward and helping mums put their own discovery journeys first in order to help their whole family shine bright like a disco ball.
We are so thrilled to have her as one of our Dazzle Sponsors!
More sponsors to be announced soon...
Just want to attend the event?
Buy your ticket here!
Includes access to the day, supporting and cheering on the awards, goodie bag & nibbles (oh and the opportunity to connect with some AMAZING individuals...)
Save my space at the awards now >>Got a group of 5 or more? Drop us a note and we'll do you a group dazzle discount...
Email us at [email protected].
Stay Weird.
Stay Bold.
Stay in the Dazzle.
The Weird AF Awards exist to prove, once and for all, that being different is not a weakness.
It's the advantage.