Home
Enjoy
Ambassadors
Business
Live

Business Events

Loading Events

« All Events

  • This event has passed.

Exporting stories from LGBTQ+ businesses

May 22 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am

Excerpt from Department for Business & Trade webpage

“Hear about the challenges LGBTQ-led businesses face when selling overseas and how they have overcome them.

What you’ll learn

  • The importance of LGBTQ+-led businesses’ contribution
  • Opportunities and challenges faced
  • DBT support

Description

Join this session in partnership with Pride in Leadership, to learn more about the opportunities and challenges facing LGBTQ+ businesses and be inspired by the successful stories of our Export Champions!

Recent studies have shown that LGBTQ+ inclusion is known to contribute to drive economic growth. The size and potential of ‘Pink Pound economy’ is undeniable. In the UK, this is worth about £6 billion, the same applying to other like-minded markets across the globe.

Speakers

Claire Ebrey (she/her)

Director, On The Level

Claire is co-founder of Pride in Leadership and the founder and director of On the Level, a consultancy focusing on responsible business, diversity & inclusion, membership, partnership and stakeholder engagement.

Matt Haworth (he/him)

Founder, Reason Digital

Matt is co-founder of Pride in Leadership and the founder and Chief Executive of Reason Digital.

Joelle Drummond (she/they)

Founder and Director of Sales & Marketing, Drop Bear

Founded in Swansea in 2019 by married couple Joelle and Sarah Drummond, Drop Bear is the UK’s top rated, multi award winning, brewer of non alcoholic beers. As of 2021, Drop Bear is Wales’ first B Corp Brewery, leading the way for sustainable brewing. They have recently attracted over £2m of investment to build the UK’s largest alcohol-free brewery.

Hollie Emery (they/them/theirs)

Bonsai Collective, Co-Founder

Hollie is an experienced producer of video games and Co-Founder of Bonsai Collective. Their production titles have won multiple BAFTAs and generated tens of millions of pounds in revenue in the UK economy. Hollie is non-binary and passionate about gender diversity. They would be delighted to join this round table.”

For more information and to register, please click here.

Details

Date:
May 22
Time:
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Event Categories:
,

Venue

Virtual

Board Information

Privacy Policy

This website is a part of a place marketing project by Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council and is managed by staff from its Business Engagement team, Visitor Destination and Engagement team, and Place Marketing team.

Your personal information will be held if you choose to complete and submit one of the information request forms on the website. Your personal information will be held in accordance with Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council’s corporate privacy notice here, and the Business Engagement Team service specific privacy notice here, depending on which team you place your enquiry with.

We employ cookie technology to help log visitors to our website. A cookie is a string of information that is sent by a website and stored on your hard drive or temporarily in your computer's memory. The information collected is used for analytic purposes through Google Analytics and helps us make improvements to the website. No personal information is collected this way. You can reject the use of cookies, but you may not be able to progress through the website.