About Us

The British African Business Network formerly known as the African Diaspora Business Network is a not- for- profit organisation and was established in December 2020 at the peak of the pandemic. It seeks to promote and support African businesses to help them to grow and succeed. The network has created a platform for collaboration and partnerships in the business community, where community members support each other’s business. We aim to build a community of strong businesses that can compete on an international level.

We are also the voice of our business community, which arose on the back of our engagement with the UK government All Party Parliamentary Group for Ethnic Minority Business Owners, where we realised that the African demography was not fully identified within the Ethnic Minority Business community, who as a whole, were experiencing various barriers to their growth including, but not limited to: 

  • Lack of access to information  
  • Lack of access to funding
  • Lack of access to opportunities
  • Lack of training in completing application forms for grants and loans
  • Challenges with pre- qualification for procurement and related services.

The British African Business Network seeks to close the gap by
creating an opportunity for dialogue and engagement between our
businesses and all stake holders. Accordingly, we aim to represent our
businesses at the highest level of government and to participate in the
development and formulation of policy for sustainable support for our
businesses. 

In recent times, we have been involved with the APPG on Ethnic Minority Business Owners in various projects, notably:

  1. Report on the impact of COVID on BAME businesses titled Voice from the grassroots.
  2. Barclays bank digital skills pilot programme for BAME businesses.
  3. APPG/BAME roundtable with UK Finance (banks).

We received funding from the National Lottery to run training workshops 
for our business community between 2022 – 2023 which were highly successful.