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Since launching in 2005, the Enterprise Nation team has helped thousands of people start and grow their businesses. Led by founder Emma Jones MBE, Enterprise Nation continues to be the most active UK small business community and a leading campaigning voice for small business. Joining Enterprise Nation connects you with resources, community and connections you need to reach your business goals.

 to give you the chance to raise up to Â£500 of funding for your small business. There's a winner from last month and you can vote for the candidates you think deserve funding in this final Fund101 month.

 who secured the highest number of public votes in May so is the happy winner of Â£500 which will be spent on network development, marketing and a new event.

We were so impressed with the quality of applications to our Fund 101 competition in May. We've made a 

 - find out how they'd spend up to Â£500 on their business idea, and why they deserve your vote.

Madeinthevalley

Made in the Valley is a co-operative of makers in the Calder Valley of West Yorkshire. With a building identified as a potential co-working and maker space, four entrepreneurial ladies are looking for Â£500 to heat the space and create a conducive work environment.

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Version 22 is a design studio intent on creating products which solve everyday frustrations in a way that makes people smile. The first product to be released is Geco Hub, the world's first truly adaptable wall mounted grab and go storage system. Fund101 will be used to pay for the manufacturing tooling needed to make the components and get them to customers.

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Clever Little Fishes is a web design business based in Kent, serving customers across the UK and globe. Founder, Ant Tomlinson, is looking to take on his first hire and would spend Fund101 equipping the garden office to enable this.

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Venteo is an iPhone appwhere all pictures taken at an event by anyone attending upload seamlessly to one album for all to view. Fund101 would be spent on marketing this new app in Portsmouth, the city in which Blake Folgado, is based.

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The Hog Master of Spalding is a mobile roasting business looking to expand over the next 3 years to having five units covering weekend trade at country fairs, parties, weddings and corporate events. It would spend Fund101 money on a new stand with the company logo so they stand out from the crowd.

One winner and five new candidates in Fund 101 competition

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Lucy is a jargon free, social media trainer and consultant. Lucy is a #SheMeansBusiness accredited trainer and founder of SocialDayUK the UK’s biggest social media marketing festival. Lucy is also a Director at Avviso Media, a digital marketing agency that specialises in content and social media marketing for B2B and events brands. Lucy’s passion is to up-skill women and so set up DigitalWomen with Natwest, a community created to empower 1 Million plus women through digital skills which holds regular events and highlights the great work women are doing in digital and entrepreneurship.

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