I won the Glenfiddich 'Spirit of Scotland' Entrepreneur Award...

Last night, I was very gratefully awarded this very prestigious award.  Thanks very much if you were one of the folks who kindly took the time to vote online last month.

It felt amazing even just to be recognised among the ranks of such incredibly talented, famous and successful people as Glasvegas, KT Tunstall, Mark Beaumont and James McAvoy.  

To win an award, in the Entrepreneur category, was very touching - since the winner was chosen by the public.  I didn't really know what to say when I was invited to give a speech.  I thanked my family for being so supportive and, of course, my Gran for teaching me to make jam in the first place.

The overall winner of 'Top Scot' was Chris Hoy, the three-time Gold medal winning Olympian.

The Scotsman editor, Mike Gilson, who presented the award to me, said: "Fraser's fearless mix of Scottish home cooking and business acumen embodies the spirit of young entrepreneurship".  Very nice of him to say so.

You can read all about the event and the other winners in today's Scotsman and the whole ceremony is broadcast this Sunday, St Andrew's Day, at 10:30pm on STV.

Enterprise Week..

This week has seen thousands of events, with tens of thousands of participants all around the world (in about eighty countries) promoting entrepreneurship.

Encouraging young people to think about setting up companies, charities and to develop the products of the future, is something that I think is very important and I put a bit of time into. I was asked to be an 'Ambassador' for the Government-supported Enterprise Week, and have been giving a couple of talks every day at events all over the UK.

I started out in the Orkney Isles, in the far North of Scotland and gave a talk to all of the young people taking part in Young Entreprise up there, about 160 of them. After going to the US for a few days, I gave a talk to about 800 young people at the Leicester Square Odeon with Levi Roots, of Reggae Reggae Sauce fame. I then spoke to a couple of hundred people at the impressive Institute of Directors, then at Lampton School in West London, to the Eton College Entrepreneurship Society and then, to end it off, at New College, in Swindon.

I've taken 12 flights, skipped two nights sleep and given 7 talks in the past fortnight. I'm off to the pub..