In our current edition: Young'Uns 2013

Welcome to our annual Young ‘Uns feature where we celebrate the endeavours and achievements of the county’s brightest young business talent.

Lancashire Business View is proud to be partnered once again by UCLan on Young ‘Uns.

Fuse Fund, backed by the Regional Growth Fund, offers non-repayable grants of up to £50,000 to young Lancashire businesses and, with our partner Regenerate Pennine Lancashire, we aim to help create hundreds of new jobs.

If it’s not your business, perhaps it’s one you know of. Point them in our direction and help us create the next wave of Young ‘Uns!

[quote-content]Lancashire has a great entrepreneurial spirit and the talent we have in the region is second to none. The University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) has fully supported and worked hard for many years to harness that spirit and to ensure, where possible, it stays within Lancashire. If not, we work just as hard to let the world know it came from Lancashire![/quote-content]

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Mark Stokes, 34, owner, Red Plane

Mark's working life since then has been spent as a consultant working with leading national brands, honing my ability to design and implement business productivity solutions and intranets based on Microsoft's SharePoint and Cloud platforms. I'm now reigniting my business career, launching Red Plane, an IT consultancy that will provide infrastructure that makes sense, and service and software that will drive up productivity, whilst driving down long term IT costs.

Johnathan Pickles, 26, surveyor, Petty's

Jo Fulthorpe, 31, business development manager, Hyndburn Enterprise Trust

Matt Jagger, 30, owner, Jagger Talent

Helen Stuart, 25, managing director, Farm Creative

Husna Patel, 31, associate solicitor, Napthens

Jonathan Holden, 33, partner, employment, Forbes Solicitors

Vicky Lofthouse, 30, chamber manager, Lancaster District Chamber of Commerce