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What is the FEAT Project
The Fair Enterprise and Trade (FEAT) Project aims to:
- use the 2012 Olympic Games to inspire Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) women to think about starting a business.
- Support local business women to benefit from 2012 opportunities.
- Build consortiums of women sole traders and businesses in the
a) building and light construction,
b) tourism and hospitality, and
c) sport and lesiure sectors.
Who Are FEAT?
FEAT is a partnership of four women’s voluntary organisations: Urban Inclusion Community, Account 3, the Women’s Resource Centre and Prowess.
For more information about any of our partners, please click the logos below:
The FEAT project is part of the London Development Agency’s Opportunities Fund Programme and works across the five Olympic host boroughs (Tower Hamlets, Hackney, Newham, Greenwich and Waltham Forest). The project is also a partner within The Partnership for Cultural Business Investment Programme which is part financed by The European Union under the European Regional Development Fund Structural Programme.The CBI Programme is managed by Islington Training Network.
To find out and learn more about The LDA and ERDF click on the link below:
http://www.lda.gov.uk/server.php?show=nav.00100l003001
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Register for our new Hospitality and Tourism network:
Signature Gold is a brand established by Urban Inclusion Community as a result
of lengthy consultation and networking with it’s Fair
project membership. The aim of FEAT is to inspire women to develop and grow
businesses that can benefit from the 2012 Olympics and beyond. The FEAT
project set-up three sector networks which includes Building and Construction,
Sports and Leisure and Hospitality and Tourism. The FEAT networks database
has over 1,000 women’s businesses on it who have attended events over the last
two years.
Signature Gold is a new brand that has evolved out of the FEAT hospitality and
aims to become a one stop shop for culturally specific Events and Hospitability
Services in
The aim of Signature Gold is to:
- Bring something new and exciting to the
- Focus on
- Provide a marketing and management solution, for Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic women’s businesses in the hospitality and tourism sector, through the development of partnerships, joint ventures and consortiums.
Hospitality and Tourism Network:
There are nearly 100 businesses on the FEAT Hospitality network and they will be
given the opportunity to become part of the Signature Gold group along with other
women’s businesses that
- have been trading for more than 2 years
- have a turnover of £50k +
Through our Cultural Business Investment Programme, which is part funded
by ERDF Urban Inclusion Community will provide specialist business support to
enable these women’s businesses to develop and grow their business through
2012 and public sector procurement opportunities.
Quality is at the heart of Signature Gold so businesses that want to become
Signature Gold members have to go through an accreditation process which
Involves: - _
· Completing a Urban Inclusion Community PQQ
· An assessment of eligibility
· A business diagnostic
· A capacity building and training plan
· Training development and support through specialist workshops and referrals to mainstream agencies such as Business Link: www.businesslink.gov.uk/bdotg/action/home;
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· Completion of all actions in the capacity building and training plan
· Working Group approval process
To sign up for Signture Gold please contact our Business Services Administrator Sabina Begum who will book an appointment for you to see one of our business advisors for the accreditation process.
sabina@urbaninclusion.co.uk or call 020 7375 2222
