A free procurement readiness programme for ethnic minority SMEs with an ambition to grow their capabilities and better understand corporate supply chains.
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Programme Overview and Structure
A four-part procurement readiness programme aimed at ethnic minority SMEs with an ambition to grow their capabilities.
Location: There will be 2 virtual sessions and 2 face-to-face sessions (University of Westminster)
Date: February – March 2024
- University of Westminister
- Networking and Perfecting Personal Pitch
- Understanding Capability Statements
- Group Mentoring Introduction
- Customer Persona Identification and Mapping
Day 1: Programme introduction & customer personas (21/02/24)
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This programme is for non-white ethnic minority businesses (EMBs) in London.
We define EMBs as being at least 51% owned, managed, and controlled by people from ethnic minority backgrounds (for more information please click here).
We focus our support on startups and small to
medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with 250 or
fewer employees.
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How to Apply
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MSDUK Accelerator is a four-month programme designed to help your business succeed. You'll be running experiments to validate your business assumptions whilst building relationships with our deeply experienced and competent ecosystem.
Connections are just as critical as capital. We offer holistic support with corporate mentoring, 1-2-1 advice from experts, and specialist workshops. With access to 100+ global corporations and over 300 businesses, including the sponsors from our corporate network:
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Understand and apply key elements of a capability statement for engaging corporate buyers.
Places are allocated on a first come first serve basis, apply now so that you don’t miss out on this opportunity.
Participants should be able to commit to 16hours of learning, spread across 4-6 weeks and be prepared to do programme-related learning outside of sessions.
For more information please contact: hinda@msduk.org.uk
Join our Pathways
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A free procurement readiness programme for ethnic minority SMEs with an ambition to grow their capabilities and better understand corporate supply chains.
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This programme is for non-white ethnic minority businesses (EMBs) in London.
We define EMBs as being at least 51% owned, managed, and controlled by people from ethnic minority backgrounds (for more information please click here).
We focus our support on startups and small to
medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with 250 or
fewer employees.
Be able to confidently
pitch your business
to corporate buyers and stakeholders.
Have developed a
peer mentoring network
with other ethnic minority SMEs.
- Networking Practice
- Pitching to Buyers
- Capability Statement Workshop
- Group Mentoring and Feedback
Day 2: Preparing to sell &
pitch to buyers (28/02/24)
Day 3: Financial Management (06/03/24)
- Financial Management Theory and Practice
- Capability Statement Workshop
- Group Mentoring and Feedback
Day 4: Capability statement pitches (13/03/24)
- 3-Minute Capability Statement
Presentations with Buyer - Networking and conclusion ceremony
Facilitated by Professor Harveen Chugh, Professor in Entrepreneurship at UCL School of Management and
Co-founder of the Network for Coaching and Mentoring Entrepreneurs.
Harveen Chugh is a Professor in Entrepreneurship at the UCL School of Management. She specialises in entrepreneurship education, developing the practice of coaching and mentoring for entrepreneurs and designing new entrepreneurship programmes. She has previously set up her own company designing entrepreneurship programmes for universities and accelerators. She has been a Growth Manager on a UK government programme managing startups and leading them to sales and investment.
Delivered in Partnership:
Have developed a peer mentoring network with other ethnic minority SMEs.
Be able to confidently pitch your business to corporate buyers and stakeholders.
Understand and apply key elements of a capability statement for engaging corporate buyers.
A four-part procurement readiness programme aimed at ethnic minority SMEs with an ambition to grow their capabilities.
Location: There will be 2 virtual sessions and 2 face-to-face sessions (University of Westminster)
Date: February – March 2024
Day 1: Programme introduction & customer personas (21/02/24)
Networking and Perfecting Personal Pitch
Understanding Capability Statements
Group Mentoring Introduction
Customer Persona Identification and Mapping
Day 2: Preparing to sell &
pitch to buyers (28/02/24)
Networking Practice
Pitching to Buyers
Capability Statement Workshop
Group Mentoring and Feedback
Day 3: Financial Management (06/03/24)
Financial Management Theory and Practice
Capability Statement Workshop
Group Mentoring and Feedback
Day 4: Capability statement pitches (13/03/24)
3-Minute Capability Statement
Presentations with Buyer
Networking and conclusion ceremony
This programme is for non-white ethnic minority businesses (EMBs) in London.
We define EMBs as being at least 51% owned, managed, and controlled by people from ethnic minority backgrounds (for more information please click here).
We focus our support on startups and small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with 250 or fewer employees.
Facilitated by Professor Harveen Chugh, Professor in Entrepreneurship at UCL School of Management and Co-founder of the Network for Coaching and Mentoring Entrepreneurs.
Harveen Chugh is a Professor in Entrepreneurship at the UCL School of Management. She specialises in entrepreneurship education, developing the practice of coaching and mentoring for entrepreneurs and designing new entrepreneurship programmes. She has previously set up her own company designing entrepreneurship programmes for universities and accelerators. She has been a Growth Manager on a UK government programme managing startups and leading them to sales and investment.