MEECOE's Response to National Developments

A key element of the Minority Ethnic Enterprise Centre of Expertise’s (MEECOE) work is to ensure that its advice and activities are aligned with national developments on ethnic minority entrepreneurship. To this end, MEECOE has been monitoring, and contributing to the deliberations of the Government’s national Ethnic Minority Business Task Force (EMBTF). In July, the Task Force presented a report to Lord Mandelson, the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills. In anticipation of the Government’s response to the Task Force report this month, MEECOE reports on how it is responding to, and building on, the work of the EMBTF in its new Briefing.

MEECOE already builds on the work of the Task Force and its response includes developing the evidence base, improving understanding of the requirements of finance providers, working to develop a culture of ‘good practice’ with business support intermediaries, and the development of a hub for procurement activity in the West Midlands. Details of these and other strands of the MEECOE repsonse are outlined in the third Briefing document.

For your copy of this new Briefing, you can contact MEECOE via meecoe@dmu.ac.uk