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Inspiring Story: Amy Hutchings

Amy is an artist, illustrator and printer. She makes colourful, hand-printed fashion and interior accessories using organic, fair-trade denims and cottons, vintage and pre-loved materials, to create quirky and original fabrics using only traditional methods.

Get Involved Page: Make Your Mark in the Market

Make Your Mark in the Markets - the competition to give you the opportunity to turn your entrepreneurial ideas into reality and start trading on a Market near you for free

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Inspiring Story: Rosie Brooks

Rosie Brooks has established herself as a truly enterprising artist (whether she's painting a 10 foot guitar for Paul McCartney or a cow in the legendary cow parade).

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Inspiring Story: Joanna Behari

Why hire a man to do a woman's job? Home Jane offers highly qualified tradeswomen to tackle all your DIY jobs, from building shelves to antique furniture restoration.

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Inspiring Story: Vincent McKevitt

Vincent’s mum told him “you can achieve anything if you put your mind to it”. For Vincent, that “anything” was staging a healthy eating revolution with Tossed.

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Get Involved Page: Pocket the Problem

In the summer term of 2008, London’s schoolgirls were challenged to ‘pocket the problem’, using their enterprising skills to raise awareness of issues close to their hearts

Inspiring Story: Oliver Mennell and Nicola Elliott

Oliver and Nicola set up Natural Magic in 2005 as a new high-end organic beauty brand using all natural ingredients. After one month online, Selfridges wanted to stock Natural Magic candles; after six months both partners had quit their day jobs in private equities and media, to focus on the venture.

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Inspiring Story: Matthew McNeill

Matt McNeill set up Sign-Up.to in 2004, an email and mobile marketing solution which is now one of the world’s leading self-service tools for permission-based marketing.

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Inspiring Story: Jerome Touze and Peter Ward

Jerome Touze (right) and Peter Ward established travel social networking site Where Are You Now? (WAYN) in September 2002. WAYN helps travellers stay in touch with their friends but also publishes reviews of hotels, restaurants and tourist sites.

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Inspiring Story: Oliver Bishop

Having been named as one of the top ’30 under 30’ in 2004 by Media Week for co-founding search marketing agency Espotting, it was obvious Ollie Bishop was on to great things.

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