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Welcome to another issue of Pitch Black magazine, one that we are incredibly excited to bring to you. This is the Windrush 75th Anniversary Special where we remember an incredible group of people who, almost 3 generations ago, landed on these shores from the Caribbean starting with Empire Windrush on the 22nd June 1948. In this issue, we celebrate Dr Carlton Brown, an offspring of the Windrush generation, who is all about ensuring that the children of the Windrush generation are poised to realize our full economic potential. He does this as an academic, an entrepreneur and convener of the UK Black Business Entrepreneurs Conference which aims to empower, engage and educate our entrepreneurs with the tools they need to achieve greater success.
Speaking of events, we recap the London Chamber of Commerce & Industry's Black Business Association's Media Mixer in March as well as Black Business Recommendation's Excellence Awards in April. Of course, we look forward to the UK Black Business Show in Birmingham in June. Our Exposure section kicks off with celebrating 23 Men worthy of shining our spotlight on. In addition we spotlight 10 Products to buy, 10 Pages to read, 10 Programmes to watch & 10 Places to visit across the UK to mark #Windrush75. We conclude with Our Expressions covering Mindset, Networking, Business Profile, PR & Business Finance. We're excited to bring you this issue and certainly hope you love and enjoy it! If you do, tell a friend to tell a friend. :) Love & Blessings,
Colin & Judy
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Our Sensational 6 Contributors Herman Allen Herman is an Architectural engineer turned Social & Business Entrepreneur within the property, education and social care sectors. He has been in business for over 20 years and is the CEO of Holibrook House & Hopewell School. Connect with Herman @ herman.allen@holibrookhouse.co.uk
Huw & Lorraine Bellot In 2017 fed up with the lack of visibility for Black owned businesses they created Black Business Recommendation a business-centred Facebook group with 25 members. By January 2021, with almost 11,000 members, the group became a registered business. Connect with Huw & Lorraine @ www.blackbusinessrecommendation.com
Nicola Millington Nicola Millington is a PR professional with over 20 years PR experience. She is also the founder of the award-winning FP Comms - a boutique public relations agency that works with ambitious and socially aware businesses, and entrepreneurs. Connect with Nicola and her team @www.linktr.ee/fpcomms
Cheryl Nankoo Cheryl is an experienced Sales Consultant and Executive Coach with over 17 years business experience. As a Certified NLP Master Practitioner, she has coached and mentored people from all walks of life including senior executives, board members, elite athletes and is qualified as an mBIT (multiple brain integration techniques) coach. Connect @ www.thenankoo.com
Andrea L Richards Andrea is an award winning experienced accountant helping entrepreneurs, e-commerce business, entertainers & property investors to maximise profit and minimise tax. She is a speaker and author and provides Management Accounts, VAT, Payroll and Bookkeeping services. Connect @ www.accountsnavigator.com
This issue's Contents Our Experience Cover Story Check out the story of Dr Carlton Brown, an academic, an entrepreneur and the host of a conference event that is aspiring for more for us. As always, check out the full interview on our YouTube Channel.
Pitch Black On the Scene We cover a number of events that we've been to, that we should have been to and that we're looking forward to going to. Of course, this being the Windrush 75th anniversary special, we shine a light on the Windrush 75, a number of events across the UK to mark this special event.
Our Exposure Spotlighting 23 Men To mark Father's Day 2023. Spotlighting 10 Products For the special men in your life. Spotlighting 10 Pages Chronicling their Windrush experiences. Spotlighting 10 Programmes & Places Let's get out there & celebrate Windrush 75.
Our Experience Mindset Cheryl Nankoo shares 6 Phrases to get rid of to get your mind right. Networking BBR founders Huw & Lorraine Bellot highlight their passion for Black businesses. Business Profile Herman Allen tells us about how he turned a Social Need into a Commercial Success. PR Nicola Millington outlines 4 Tips for Effective PR. Finance Andrea L Richards instruct us about 6 Successful Cashflow Secrets.
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Windrush Day, celebrated on the 22nd June each year has become a key symbolic moment of celebrating Black British contribution to the UK. Anchored by Dr Patrick Vernon OBE, Social Commentator, Campaigner and Cultural Historian, it aims to provide an opportunity “to deepen the
Dr Patrick Vernon OBE, Campaigner & Cultural Historian
public conversation about the past present and future of modern Britain.” It was Patrick himself who led the campaign that saw the inception of Windrush Day in 2018, the 70th anniversary. At the launch of The Windrush Monument at Waterloo Station, on the
22nd June 2018, the then Communities Minister Lord Bourne, outlined the purpose of Windrush Day as one to encourage “communities across the country to celebrate the contribution of the Windrush Generation and their descendants.” He went on to say that, “A Windrush Day will
allow communities up and down the country to recognise and honour the enormous contribution of those who stepped ashore at Tilbury Docks 70 years ago.” Check out the plethora of events that are available across the country, by visiting the Windrush 75 Network website @ windrush75.org
Event Date Wednesday, 22 March in London
New feature for July conference.
Event attendees networking and enjoying tasty Caribbean food
Event Host Dr Carlton Brown (2nd from right) with (from L-R) Richard Burge, CEO of The London Chamber of Commerce & Industry (LCCI), Elizabeth Ola from TRU SKN and Lord Hastings, Chair of LCCI’s Black Business Association (BBA)
Elizabeth Ola from TRU SKN sharing her vision and journey
The media launch of the UK Black Business Entrepreneurs Conference (BBEC) on the 22nd March 2023 at the London Chamber of Commerce & Industry saw the introduction of a new practical feature to the July event. In addition to great speakers like Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones, Eric Collins & David Olusoga and a women's empowerment segment,
there will be a number of opportunities to pitch to buyers from some of the UK's biggest retail entities like Tesco, Selfridges and Cotswold Fayre. Fittingly, there will also be opportunities join Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones' buyers from The Hatchery, his incubator programme as well as Wakuda, an online marketplace by exceptional African and Caribbean brands.
Saturday the 15th April saw the Black Business Recommendation's Excellence Awards at the Saray Banqueting Suite in North London. Huw and Lorraine Bellot hosted an exceptional evening of fine food, mood enhancing music and excellence awards for a variety of people within our business community.
Lorraine & Huw with event compere, the one and only Calvin Francis
Mark Dalgety from Dalgety UK enjoying the event with his team and friends
Colin, Nicola Millen & Asari St Hill sharing a moment
Tosin Bankole
Toyin Davidson-Ero
One of the highlights of the night was the announcing of the first Business Development Loan of £10,000 winner.
Nicola Millington
Daryl Harper
Andrea L Richards
A Table sharing an after dinner moment.
Well done to Tosin Bankole from IDID3D Ltd, a 3D printing company, who won this year's award. Get more @ www.blackbusinessrecommendation.com/bbr-awards
BBR EXCELLENCE AWARD Black Business Recommendation celebrated The inaugural Business Excellence Award 2023. Businesses were showcased and recognised with awards and certificates. Be ready for the Business Excellence Award 2024.
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And then with your studies, your MBA and your PhD, were you studying for those while you were in those roles?
this point, I'm just thinking why is it that I'm not getting promoted within the organization. Especially since at this point I was outperforming quite a lot of my contemporaries.
Well, we talk about this glass ceiling stuff where you think that you're in a career and things are not really happening for you and you question why. I wondered if it was because I stopped doing my A levels, because I wasn't thinking of anything nefarious at
But yet still things weren't necessarily happening. So, I thought maybe I need to go back and study again. So I went back and did a post graduate Level 7 which is equivalent to a Masters degree in Leadership. Then after that I went on to do an MBA in Business.
Jay Blades MBE
Kayne Kawasaki
TV Presenter, Producer & Philanthropist
Cultural Theorist & UK Black History Educator
Due to dyslexia, Jay left school with no qualifications. Thankfully, this hasn't stopped him from being one of the nation's favourite presenters on BBC's The Repair Shop.
Kayne began his career teaching in Secondary Schools in South London and then shifted the focus of his teaching skills towards UK black history and started creating content on Tiktok.
Jay is the antithesis of the throwaway culture that surrounds us, His belief is that the old can become new, the worn can shine again, and the broken can be fixed. This belief guides not just how he deals with furniture, but more importantly, how he deals with people.
Within a year, Kayne has amassed over 900k video views collectively, has a TEDx Talk under his belt and has consulted for English Heritage, Notting Hill Carnival and Tiktok (featuring on their nationwide 2021 BHM Billboard campaign) to name a few. Along the way he has quickly become one of the go-to-voices for factual, historical and statistical inform regarding race relations.
Michael Eboda
Jason Arday
CEO of Powerful Media & Publisher of The Powerlist
Professor of Sociology of Education, Cambridge University
If you have read a copy of the Powerlist, an annual list of the most influential people of African or African Caribbean heritage in the UK, you have Michael to thank for that.
Diagnosed with global development delay and autism spectrum disorder, Jason was reputed to not learn to speak until he was 11 and was unable to read or write until the age of 18.
Before starting Powerful Media, he was the Editorial Director of the Ethnic Media Group which, at one time published New Nation, a weekly newspaper published for the UK's Black community. Michael is also the host of the Powerlist Black Excellence Awards Dinner, a black tie event to launch the publication and to recognise people who have showcased excellence in their field of endeavor over a number of years.
His family were informed that he would require Remarkably, despite that, he become the youngest Black professor ever appointed at the University of Cambridge only 20 years after learning to read. Arday will join become only the 6th Black professors at Cambridge and one of only 160 of the U.K.'s nearly 23,000 professors, representing less than 1%. This is a statistic he is aiming to change.
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