The West Midlands Minority Ethnic Business Forum provides strategic advice to Advantage West Midlands and other partners.
It advises on strategies and policies relating to minority ethnic entrepreneurship in the West Midlands.
The Forum was set up by the regional development agency Advantage West Midlands and is made up of men and women from the minority ethnic business community who have practical experience working as entrepreneurs in the region.
It operates through a main Board supported by three sub groups
Business Enterprise and Skills
Regeneration and Economic Inclusion
Communications and Engagement
The West Midlands is characterised by its ethnic and cultural diversity. It has a large and growing minority ethnic community with an age profile that is substantially younger than the ageing indigenous white population.
It is this demographic challenge combined with the fact that the region is faced with a productivity deficit of £10 billion that makes it important that the minority ethnic community is helped and encouraged to become even more productive and fulfil its great latent potential.
The vision of the Forum is an economically prosperous region in which all of its people can fulfil their potential thus making a contribution to and sharing in the success of the region.