NEWS AND INSIGHTS

After seven years of being known as BAME in Property, we’re excited to share that we’ll be rebranding and announcing a new name for the organisation.

In anticipation of some questions, we’ve pulled together some FAQs to help you. We’ll continue to update this if any others come through.

For National Careers Week 2024 (4 – 9 March), we’re spotlighting our partner, National Grid to showcase the array of careers within the UK Land and Property (UKLP) department.

To help us with this, we caught up with Priscilla Ephraim, a Senior Project Manager and Palvinder Kalsi, a Grantor Relations Assistant, who share with us how they carved a career into property and what their roles entail at National Grid.

Applications have just opened to join the Elevate programme which will be providing pro bono communications and business development support to a cohort of small firms with ethnically diverse leaders, within the built environment.

As part of Race Equality Week (5-9 February 2024), leaders from across the Built Environment took part in an important and insightful discussion about progressing racial equity in our industry, at a joint event hosted by BAME in Property and our corporate partner, Lambert Smith Hampton (LSH) in London.

Read our detailed summary of the discussion here.

To kick off Race Equality Week 2024, we caught up with Montagu Evans’ Amran Nagra, a Chartered Town Planner (MRTPI) and Tiahna Joshi, a Chartered Planning and Development Surveyor (MRICS & MRTPI), both based at the partnership’s headquarters in the City of London. Although Amran and Tiahna are in the early years of their careers, they have achieved an incredible amount to date. From travelling and studying abroad, to passing the demanding Chartered qualifications, both are oozing with ambition and determination to excel in their respective fields.

As 2023 draws to a close, we’re taking a moment to reflect on a wonderful year of business, making connections and continuously collaborating… on bringing more ethnicity to property.

Is local and national policy adequately responsive to the diverse needs of our population? Does ethnic and cultural diversity influence the way we plan and make decisions regarding the future of our city?

These were some of the questions explored during a London-focused roundtable discussion, held at Turley’s office in the capital on Wednesday 1st November, in partnership with BAME in Property Ltd.

Future of London offers work placements to people from ethnic minority backgrounds looking to launch their career in housing, planning or regeneration. Safaa Usmani explains why graduating from the programme helped her land a dream job.

We’re excited to formally introduce our hosting services, led by our founder, Priya Aggarwal-Shah. At a time when there is a greater need for conversations and unity about EDI, we’re ready to provide a service that can shape those challenging, yet necessary discussions.

Read more about our experience and how we can support you.

To mark Black History Month 2023, we caught up with Oby Bamidele, Chief Operating Officer of Built-ID, a social impact PropTech company, helping to create sustainable and inclusive places. Oby is also an author, counsellor and wellbeing coach, focusing on Black mental health, and has supported The Curvy Project, which seeks to build a more empowering and diverse narrative around Black hair, beauty and femininity.

This month, we’re pleased to share some of the early career’s outreach work our Corporate Partner, Turley has been doing to help create a more equitable and diverse workforce. Working directly with the 10,000 Interns Foundation, co-owners Tom Ellis, Senior Planner, Economics and Charlotte Palmer, Senior Planner, Planning Midlands, and Mariel Ngemoh, who did a placement with the Economics team in Manchester, have shared some reflections on their experiences of the ‘10,000 Interns’ programme.

National Inclusion Week takes place from 25th September – 1st October and this year’s theme is ‘Take Action, Make Impact’. The theme was inspired by some of the momentum of the theme from NIW 2022; ‘Time to Act: The Power of Now’, which centred around encouraging immediate action – not next month or next year, or in six months, but now.

But as we know, DEI is long term and while there are some policies you can implement immediately, most require constant and consistent action.

We’ve put together some tips to help ensure your DEI policies are sustainable and really do make an impact.

September is East and Southeast Asian (ESEA) Heritage Month, which was established in the UK to honour and celebrate the culture, diversity, history and contributions of East and South East Asian communities across the UK and raise awareness for those who are not East and/or South East Asian.

The theme this year, "Roots and Routes", was an opportunity for one of our members, Haziq Ariffin, Account Manager at ING Media, to reflect on his recent travels back home in Malaysia and Singapore.

At BAME in Property we’re proud to partner with a range of companies in the Built Environment, who are passionate about creating inclusive cultures. This month, we’re highlighting some of the exemplary EDI initiatives Lendlease has been implementing across their company.

From establishing and supporting an array of internal diversity networks, to rolling out company-wide training and reaching into new communities for future talent, here we share how small steps can make a difference.