Unlike most first time mothers Deirdre wasn't content with putting her feet up for nine months - instead she used this time to start planning her first business.
Caroline Sanders and Jo Hilton are co-founders of Hilton Sanders, a photography company aimed at creating pictures with personality and images with impact.
After being named runner-up on The Apprentice in 2008, 30 year old Claire Young went on to launch luxury wedding venues company Elegant Venues.
Whilst still at university, former professional youth football player Gérard Jones teamed up with his father to launch a football coaching business for children aged 8-14.
Rick Flay’s search for a new business opportunity led him to become a franchisee of residential property specialist Belvoir Lettings.
The Hull Enterprise Partnership is the winner of the Enterprising Britain Competition 2009 in the Yorkshire and Humber region. It's aimed at pre-start up businesses to provide support, including free business workshops, one-to-one mentoring and support with funding applications.
A self-confessed ‘born organiser’, 33-year-old Nadine Hill found she needed a new challenge and more flexible working hours after the birth of her daughter.
Gary believes that working hard and being rewarded brings everyone a sense of pride and worth. He has set up an organisation to engage, inspire and educate people in his community and help them to achieve their goals.
Hull University hosted an Entrepreneurship Masterclass for local schools and colleges.
Seven young people from Sydney Smith School in Hull ( a school that has just got back to full working order after the floods in June 2007) involved in Young Enterprise Company Programme striving to sell their product
In the last six years, the Partnership has linked the public, private sector and community together towards the common goal of transforming Scarborough from a declining seaside resort to a quality town by the sea with an optimistic future. The results have been dramatic. It has helped transform Scarborough with strong leadership and genuine community involvement at its core.
Broughton was awarded in the 2007 Enterprising Britain competition for its transformation of a declining rural community into a beacon of enterprise.
The Yorkshire regional winner of the Enterprising Britain 2006 competition was the Rotherham Partnership
Inventing a machine that allows cows to milk themselves? Funding a Europe-wide business venture with the sale of a litter of puppies? It could only be Yorkshire’s Tim Gibson, a local farmer with a global business.
Xing Smoothies bring tasty, energy-giving snacks to the masses. It’s fruit, but not as we know it…
Carl Hopkins: Secret Millionaire, Elvis obsessive, direct marketing guru and Lifetime Honorary President of Easington Miners’ Brass Band…
Hull’s partnership model is a great example of how an enterprising culture can be incorporated into a city.
Fed up with missing deliveries? Tired of waiting in all day for a parcel? Eddie Riby has invented the answer: Parcel Safe.
Danny Matharu says quitting his job in recruitment to start up on his own was one of the smartest business decisions he ever made.
Full-time student, social entrepreneur and cricket captain James Clegg is the chairman of Operation Hoodie, an organisation raising funds for Cancer Research UK.
