Asian Business Connexions

Yasmin Khan

Overview

Asian Business Connexions is a not for profit social enterprise that aims to connect, support and promote the Asian and wider communities.  Our area of expertise is ethnic minority engagement through the development and delivery of programmes and campaigns.

Our key focus is on inclusion, equality, and diversity helping organisations and individuals better understand  and connect with ethnic minority communities, whilst considering cultural, religious, social, economic and wider factors.

In regards to the Innovation Pathway we are able to help discover, define, develop and deliver products and services by engaging with the appropriate stakeholder groups.  We have the largest ethnic minority network across the North of England and are a member of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Ethnic Minority Businesses.

We have developed and delivered a number of demand led health, wellbeing and enterprise programmes on behalf of organisations from across the public and private sectors.

Our Inclusion Training Programme is practical and bespoke, tailored to the needs of the organisation.

Services we offer

  • Inclusion & Diversity
  • Diverse Community Engagement & Management
  • Campaign Development and Delivery
  • Internationalisation
  • Event Management

Support we offer

We offer a range of services focused on understanding, engaging and meaningfully involving ethnic minority communities across the Health and Life Sciences Sector.

Our expertise includes Campaign Development and Management, Stakeholder Mapping and Engagement, Patient Panel Recruitment, Ideation, Validation, Internationalisation.

We also design and deliver bespoke engagement events including 1-2-1, 1-2-many, conferences, networking and community engagement events.

Marketing – we offer a range of services including on air, digital and print media to support sales and marketing, campaign roll-out activities.

 

Eligibility criteria

We are the leading not for profit inclusive organisation there is no eligibility criteria.

Funding

As a not for profit social enterprise we are able to offer some of our support for free.  Alternatively we have successfully applied for grants to deliver particular health and wellbeing campaigns including COVID, Blood and Transfusion, Inclusion and Vaccine Hesitancy.