Our Strategic Partnerships

We partner with a range of organisations that share our values and support our mission to make London the best city in the world, working with and for the UK

Growing Together Alliance

Growing Together is an alliance of like-minded organisations – regionally based strategic voices promoting sustainable and inclusive growth and representing large private sector and independent employers (businesses, universities) within their respective regions.

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The UK’s economic growth is the sum of growth within each of its nations and regions, and regional economies perform strongest when they collaborate. Growing Together believes that regional growth is not a zero-sum game, where one region thriving must come at the expense of another.

Collectively, Growing Together calls for more effective place-based economic strategies that deliver transformational growth, leverage each region’s particular strengths, and complement other parts of the country, putting in place measures that raise productivity across the UK, including London.

BusinessLDN serves as the secretariat of the Growing Together Alliance, which is chaired by the Northern Powerhouse Partnership and also comprises Business South, Business West, Cambridge Ahead, and the North West Business Leadership Team.

The Metropolitan Police Service

BusinessLDN’s strategic partnership with the Metropolitan Police strengthens collaboration to help keep London safe for residents, workers, and visitors.

Acting as a platform for direct engagement between the Met, the business community, and London’s BIDs, the partnership supports reform, intelligence-sharing, and joint action to tackle crime and the perception of safety in the capital.

Change the Race Ratio

Change the Race Ratio is the leading campaign in the UK calling for businesses to take action to improve racial and ethnic minority representation in their leadership teams. BusinessLDN’s partnership with Change the Race Ratio aims to encourage more firms to remove barriers to leadership progression and drive race equity. Through joint events delivered by BusinessLDN, the partnership provides a platform for businesses to signal change to stakeholders and access a community for learning and the exchange of effective approaches.

Journi

Journi’s mission is to improve the career progression of high-potential black, female, or low-household-income professionals across their entire career lifecycle, from school leavers (Day One) to Board Level. Journi achieves this by delivering programmes, in partnership with ambitious UK businesses, to help those in our community reach their next career milestone. We work with Journi to deliver inclusive leadership training and events for our members.

vocL

vocL empowers business leaders, especially future top leaders, to be morally brave, to become more effective, authentic communicators for their businesses, and to help create a better and more positive national debate.

vocL is a leading national professional development programme and network, exclusively for a new generation of value-driven, ambitious business leaders. We work with vocL to amplify their programme.

The Felix Project

The Felix Project rescues good, surplus food from the food industry that cannot be sold and would otherwise go to waste and delivers it to hundreds of food banks, charities, primary schools, and holiday programmes in London.

BusinessLDN works with the Felix Project to promote their work, including at our recent annual conference, Future London, and by running joint events.

Testimonials

Working closely with businesses in the capital is key to making London a safe place to live, visit, and work. This new joint venture builds on our successful involvement with the London Retail Harm Reduction Partnership and will ensure we get intelligence directly from businesses about the issues facing the communities they operate in.

Sir Mark Rowley, Commissioner of the Met

At vocL, we believe that responsible leadership has the power to shape a better future for both business and society. Working with BusinessLDN is important to us because they bring together a diverse, cross-sector community committed to making London – and the UK – a thriving, inclusive place to do business. Their focus on long-term, solutions-driven dialogue aligns perfectly with vocL’s mission to empower rising business leaders to find their voice and drive progressive change.

vocL

Partnering with BusinessLDN is a genuine pleasure. Their commitment to driving meaningful change across UK businesses and their alignment with our mission to advance equity and inclusion make them an invaluable ally. It’s energising to work with an organisation that not only recognises the urgency of this work but embraces the opportunity it brings for everyone.

Sharla-Jaye Duncan, CEO, Journi

Our partnership with BusinessLDN is critical to our mission to accelerate ethnic minority representation in business leadership.  Working with BusinessLDN has allowed us to share our learnings with more businesses across the capital and encourage their leaders to take action.

Richard DeNetto, CEO, Change the Race

Regional growth is not a zero-sum game, and BusinessLDN has been at the forefront of creating the Growing Together Alliance in recognition of this.  It brings together like-minded regional business organisations to collaborate on mutual priorities and share knowledge and insights. Collaborating helps us all to champion the conditions for growth in our regions: we are stronger when we work together.

Henri Murison, Chair, Growing Together

It's a pleasure for The Felix Project to become a strategic partner with BusinessLDN. I was so impressed by the brilliant Future London conference, and we were delighted to be there throughout. So much positive impact and social value coming from the partnership already, creating a better London.

Charlotte Hill OBE, CEO, The Felix Project