Sanchita, 32, originally from Reading, moved to London at 18 to study Mathematics with Business at UCL and, upon graduating with a 2:1, chose against the city career path of her peers to instead pursue her creative ambitions in broadcasting.

She achieved this successfully with 7 years at the BBC, predominantly in radio, at Radio 1 and then as part of the start-up team to help create and launch the BBC's digital black music station, 1Xtra.

Sanchita stayed at 1Xtra for a further two years after its successful launch, working in production on the Breakfast and Drivetime shows, before leaving to further whet her entrepreneurial appetite and research an idea she'd envisaged in 2003, to create an easy way for professional London newcomers to integrate quickly and successfully into city life, connect with and meet new friends and explore the city's great social scene with other like minded people.

Her ambition was not only to create a business that performed well financially, but that also made a positive social impact and difference to people's lives.

She spent the next 16 months researching and developing her unique idea (formerly known as TheSocialService.com), gaining funding from the Prince's Trust, and was nominated as a regional finalist in the Shell Livewire Entrepreneur of the Year Awards 2005 recognising her for her achievements and ambition during this time.

After honing down the idea and how it was going to work, Sanchita secured some private investment to design, build and launch her version 1 site CitySocialising in January 2007 and, following its immediate success, expanded the site and service to cover Leeds, Manchester, Nottingham, Bristol, Brighton, Edinburgh and Glasgow after just eight months.

CitySocialising has already made an important difference to the lives of many thousands of young city professionals across the UK and Sanchita is currently working on an extensively developed version 2 site and service with plans to establish CitySocialising further in the UK and into Europe. sanchita@citysocialising.com