Back to school - the latest stories from black-owned businesses
Business Live: Latest news from black-owned businesses Read in browser BusinessLive Home Enterprise | Sign In The next generation 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 Level
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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.
A Bristol-based space recruitment company was invited to the White House to present its vision for promoting equality in the space sector. Read more.
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Also from this month
Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon MBE has been announced as the winner for the global Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Dr Imafidon is the co-founder of Stemettes, an award winning social initiative dedicated to inspiring and promoting the next generation of young women and non-binary people in the STEM sectors.
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