We amplify silenced voices for change.

By serving the underserved, including the excluded, and recognising the forgotten we believe that collectively we can help transform their tomorrow, today.

Alex Cole

Alex became a social entrepreneur in 2015 after spending time as an industry mentor in a Brixton job centre and seeing first-hand how long-term unemployment destroys confidence and dignity, robbing many of any sense of self or autonomy. 

He has, in his own words, become almost obsessive in his desire to improve social mobility through employability and remove all the connected challenges of financial, digital, and fuel poverty for the most underserved. 

The Black Board

We are a passionate few who have made it our core mission to close the global asset gap and create equitable access to financial, social and intellectual capital for black entrepreneurs.

To achieve this, we are launching the non-profit Black Supplier Exchange (www.bsegroup.org.uk) to engage, scale, and grow proven and sustainable supply-chains of black-owned businesses operating across high growth sectors.

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Why work with us

We build scalable, disruptive, and radical impact businesses which solve complex social challenges. As a collective of like-minded social innovators, we role-model the benefit corporation manifesto by growing a new kind of sustainable and equitable business ecosystem which balances profit with people and the planet.

Alex Cole

Alex became a social entrepreneur in 2015 after spending time as an industry mentor in a Brixton jobcentre and seeing first-hand how long-term unemployment destroys confidence and dignity, robing many of any sense of self or autonomy.

He has become almost obsessive in his desire to improve social mobility through employability and remove all the connected challenges of financial, digital, and fuel poverty for the most underserved.

His belief in the importance of ‘democratising digital’ stems from 25 years as a C-Level consulting, operations management and business development professional – latterly at global IT outsourcer Capgemini – where he was seconded to the ethical business charity BITC as a Business Connector.

This fuelled his ambition to uncover the untapped potential of young (and older) people – many from disadvantaged black and minority homes – who are most often those furthest away from mainstream education and good work, and place them at the heart of creating lasting equity and change by developing their employability and supporting their journey to a job.

Alex has been involved in the development of the Construction and Digital T-levels and advises organisations from SMEs to multinationals and local government on developing and scaling inclusive and equitable ‘digital by default’ initiatives. He serves as a NED for Birmingham Tech CIC, is an independent member of the West Midlands Combined Authority Race Equality Taskforce, Catalyst 2030, and the Innovation Alliance West Midlands, as well as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Acumen Academy.

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