About us

Who are we?

Minority Business Matters is a partnership between Heart of the City, which helps London’s small businesses kickstart their responsible business journeys and MSDUK, the UK’s leading supplier diversity organisation.

Together, we set up Minority Business Matters to overcome the challenges London’s ethnic minority businesses often face when seeking public and private sector business opportunities.

Heart of the City is a charity working with companies across London to encourage them to do business responsibly, to have a genuine positive impact on their community, workforce and environment.

Heart of the City runs Foundations for Responsible Business, developed to accelerate your work on sustainability and responsible business. Delivered through a series of online workshops, 1:1 and in-person networking, you’ll be able to develop your responsible business strategy which will put you in a better position to win contracts.

They’ve also launched their Net Zero Accelerator programme, designed for small to medium-sized enterprises to help them on their journey to reach net zero. Participants will have expert-led guidance, access to free online resources, and one-to-one mentoring to help as they take that first step to measure their carbon footprint baseline and develop a net zero action plan in just 10 weeks. Deadline to apply is 7 January 2025. Apply via their website here.

MSDUK helps and supports ethnic minority businesses to (EMBs) to break through inequalities and barriers in public and private sector supply chains. They lead in connecting EMBs across the UK with organisations committed to supplier diversity, helping them achieve business growth.

Their high growth programmes for EMBs offer a range of education and growth such as the MSDUK Accelerator and Pathway to High Growth Programme as well as the opportunity to win investment through the Innovation Challenge.

MSDUK provides a community where members gain valuable knowledge, connections, and peer-to-peer learning, with the added opportunity to connect and build relationships with global corporations.

The UK Government serves as a funder, allocating public resources to support essential services, infrastructure, and welfare programs, while also implementing fiscal policies to manage the country’s economic well-being.

They play a key role in allocating city resources and funding to various sectors, including transportation, housing, and community initiatives.

The UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF) is the Government’s domestic replacement for the European Structural and Investment Programme (ESIF). It provides local authorities with funding for communities, places, businesses, people and skills.