| Hello,
Welcome to the latest IAMBOB newsletter - our monthly round-up of news from Britain's black-owned businesses. Yesterday was GCSE results day and last week A Levels results came out. While many young people across the UK will be embarking on college or university courses in the coming weeks others will opt for vocational studies.
In Bristol, law firm Osborne Clarke has expanded its #10000 Black Interns Programme including offering client placements with ITV, OVO, PPF, University of Bristol, British Land and Hargreaves Lansdown. The international firm has welcomed its second cohort of interns onto its programme that aims to improve diversity across the legal sector and other professional services businesses.
While in Manchester, Emily in Paris star Lucien Laviscount has joined urfuture's board as an advisor and ambassador as he aims to tackle a lack of diversity in apprenticeship hiring. Mr Laviscount is committed to empowering young people from all backgrounds. Bosses at urfuture said they are excited to have him join the team.
Keeping on topic with education and learning, in South London a local bookshop dedicated to black children's books has opened to create a "safe space" where young black people are "inspired to read" and can "see themselves as heroes and problem solvers".
Someone else doing more for children is Eve Kekeh, founder of sustainable children's clothing platform Bundlee. BusinessLive spoke to Ms Kekeh earlier this month after Bundlee saw its customer base grow by 233% in 2022 and achieved almost 110% of its latest Seedr crowdfunding campaign.
Don't forget to check into our dedicated section for black-owned businesses regularly for the most recent stories. Or if you have a story to tell please email abigail.turner@reachplc.com with the details - and please include a picture!
All the best,
From Abi and the BusinessLive team Locally focused, nationally recognised |
