Baroness Liz Barker

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Baroness Liz Barker ThirdSectorBusiness Developing
Diversity in the East End
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The City and the East End Half a Mile Away and
A world Apart

• Which East End?
• Half a mile and a world apart
• How do businesses make effective links with
  communities
• Developing Diversity

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Which East End ?

• E17
• Tower Hamlets
• Bangladesh
• Different markets
• Sharia compliant finance

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Half a mile and a world apart

• Why would they want to help us start
  businesses?
• What is in it for them?
• They are good at giving us second-hand
  equipment, but what I really need is an ICT
  strategy
• Charities are from Venus, Business is from Mars,
  Social Enterprises are on another planet.
• We run businesses which are far more complex
  than theirs

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How do businesses make effective links with
communities

• Dont go in cold
• Find an intermediary who can bridge the culture
  gap
• Pilotlight
• Equals charities have a lot to teach your
  managers

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Developing Diversity

• Identifying upstream personal financial problems
  
• Informal care
• Procurement and tendering
• Design and cultural development
• History repeats itself