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Does your village have a bright idea? Six successful villages will receive funding and work closely with an enterprising ‘village champion’ to get their businesses up and running.

“There is only one place you will find success before work and that is in the dictionary,” says Nat Peat, founder of the Safety Box.

Proving that some entrepreneurs can turn their hand to anything, Oliver Bridge set up a specialist footwear website as a teenager and now runs a range of web start-ups.

Jesse Malone works as a specialist casting director across the UK. She works on 'drama with a message, movies with a message' - dark, edgy, compelling, tender, tragic, funny, ironic and above all something real.

Claire Spencer Cook is a Senior Content Producer at the BBC Film Network which showcases new British film-making.

Here's what Coventry band The Ripps have to say about making their mark in the music industry.

Through the Young Enterprise Company scheme, which enables students to set up and run a company for one year, Chris Mills and 16 class-mates from Sandon School in Chelmsford started Coaching Kicks.

Andrew Bloch is co-founder and managing director of Frank PR, one of the UK’s leading consumer PR agencies.