Inside The Bicester Collection’s Unlock Her Future Prize

This year, the third edition of The Bicester Collection’s Unlock Her Future Prize 2025 – South Asia Edition unfolded with the quiet elegance of a story written across borders. Out of 2900 applications received, six women with six extraordinary ideas have addressed reshaping the world in ways that are both urgent and beautiful. Their ventures, born from the realities of Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Bhutan, and Pakistan, cut through noise and expectation with a clarity of purpose that feels almost acute in today’s landscape.

Hailing from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan, these women came together to showcase ventures that are quietly recalibrating the world around them so as to redefine what meaningful, scalable impact from grassroots innovation can look like. Amritha Krishnamoorthy reimagines therapy and education for children with autism, Jhillika Trisal's startup pairs AI with human educators to reach children with special needs, Sophia Tamang who is engaged in transforming surplus produce into nourishing fruit puree while empowering women farmers while Nida Yousaf Sheikh turns air humidity into drinking water. Claiming space in a market that too often forgets the grassroot enterprises Yangchen Dolkar Dorji reminds you of it. Lastly, Nishat Anjum Palka has built a stigma-free health hub for parents and women.

The Bicester Collection's flagship initiative of its philanthropic programme, DO GOOD,Unlock Her Future Prize 2025 is a global start-up competition that empowers women social entrepreneurs with innovative ideas to create positive social and environmental change in support of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. By combining the power of the private sector with philanthropic purpose, the Prize creates a platform for women-led ventures to take root and scale from the ground up.  

Launched in the MENA region in 2022, expanded to Latin America in 2023, and now in its third edition shining a light on the extraordinary women of South Asia, the Prize has quickly become a global platform championing women who are creating lasting, positive change. Supported by Ashoka and endorsed by UN Women, it has reached women across 39 countries, contributed solutions to 16 UN Sustainable Development Goals, and allocated more than US$600,000 in philanthropic funding to women-led ventures.

For the 2025 South Asia Edition, judges Desirée Bollier, Chair and Global Chief Merchant, The Bicester Collection, Dr Rubana Huq, Vice Chancellor, Asian University for Women, Priya Sigdel, Social Entrepreneur & Media Personality, Rishini Weeraratne,  Editor, The Sun (Daily Mirror) and Head of Social Media, Wijeya Newspapers and Paroma Chatterjee, CEO Revolut India, reached a unanimous decision, recognising the exceptional talent of six visionary innovators mentioned earlier who were announced in London on 19 November 2025, coinciding with Women’s Entrepreneurship Day.

What the Unlock Her Future Prize makes apparent is something both simple and radical. That investment in women is investment in ideas that can scale, sustain, and reverberate far beyond the moment. And for those wandering in from the margins, watching the world of high fashion play host to the audacity of innovation, the lesson is subtle but undeniable: bold ideas thrive in the most unlikely places.